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While I love the iPhone. I have to say some of it’s quirks are really annoying. Here’s my list. If anyone can find work arounds let me know.
1. Activesync doesn’t work in airplane mode! Man ur on an airplane reading your exchange mail and it won’t delete messages. Just says can’t do it. Works [...]

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Well the Mac isn’t immunie to strange problems. At various times I’ve noticed syslogd (the logging daemon), the spindump and kernel_task all spinning at 100% cpu utilization. Not really clear what is causing it. In one case a flaky USB hub causes kernel_task problems which makes some sense.

kernel_task uses 70%+ often – Mac Forums
kernel_task [...]

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I don’t know what is doing it. Entourage, the many synchronizer, but I’ve got 1100 duplicate calendar entries which is depressing since I deleted 500 last week. Time to buy a deduplicator. There don’t seem to be any for Entourage that don’t take weeks to run, so I’m having to do this with Outlook under [...]

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It is a 256MB download, so hope you have a fast connectionApple Releases iPhone Firmware 2.0.1 – Mac Rumors Not clear what has changed, but early claism are – Backup process for the iPhone is much faster. – Netshare still works – SMS typing faster

Apple releases iPhone 2.0.1 Software Update – AppleInsider has a forum thread and [...]

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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
To open your Applications folder, click on your desktop and use the shift (⇧) and command (⌘) keys to type ⇧ ⌘ A. Voíla! Your Appplications folder appeareth.

Other folders have shortcuts too:

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AppleInsider claims that September is when we’ll see the refreshed MacBook, MacBook Pro and iPod lines. Makes sense as the iPod line is usually refreshed in time for the holiday season.

The best rumors are a MacBook Touch which would be a tablet. The MacBook and MacBook Pro are supposed to get a more curvy shape.

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These are just stunning numbers and of course the stock traded down since they are explaining that there will be margin pressure. Most interesting:

Mac YTY unit growth is 41%
Looks like they will refresh MacBook and MacBook Pro and prices are coming down the entry level MacBook Pro drops to $1800 from $2000 and the MacBook [...]

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I have two different problems now. First, the Time Capsule at work is preparing forever. No one really has a resolution to this. I’ve run it for 24 hours and it never stops preparing. I really don’t want to lose my backups, but not sure what to do. Maybe take it home over the weekend [...]

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Too sad that we need MacBook now rather than waiting two weeks!
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
Signs are starting to appear that Apple may be prepping for a revision of their Mac laptops in the near future. Following up a previous Commercial Times report that pointed to a Q3 (July-September) order [...]

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