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Contacts to Google hub and then down again to Address Book and iPhone

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Google actually has a contact system built into Google Mail. These are used just about everywhere, but most importantly you can use Google to synchronize contacts in Mac Address Book, iPhone and maybe even the Blackberry.
You unfortunately need third party tools to then take the contacts and push them to your iPhone (Nuviosync) and Address [...]

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Mac OS X Invisible files

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

The Mac has this notion of invisible files. Sometimes you want to edit them. There are third party utilities like File Buddy which do this, but you can also natively view them if you squint sideways. Here are the instructions:
In Mac OS X, how do I view invisible files? – Knowledge Base
OS X 10.5.x [...]

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Jailbreaking iPhone 3G with 2.0 firmware. Not!

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Be careful, I did this on my iPhone 3G and everything seemed to work, but the phone network doesn’t, so I’m restoring my iPhone now to vanilla 2.0. Too bad, I like Mac Pacman!
iClarified has a tutorial for jailbreaking your iPhone 3G so that you can load all kinds of cool games. As if the [...]

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