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As well as iTunes 8. Pretty comprehensive announcement, and the short word is that the new iPod Touch is pretty cool. Has speakers and is very thin. The pricing is somewhat sensible. $199 for a iPhone 3G 8GB, $229 for an iPod Touch 8GB but it doesn’t have a rate plan, but looks close. Then [...]

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Just a reminder on how to print to a Canon Pro9000 via an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule. This is actually tricky. You have to download the generic Canon IJ Printer (http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=182&modelid=12892#DownloadDetailAct)

This has pretty tight requirements:

• Mac OS X v10.5.3
• Latest version of Airport firmware

• Pro9000osxcp10120ej7.dmg which is the 10.1.2.0 version driver.

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The first sensible explanation of what is going on with Iphone 3G. Basically, it has bad power management firmware when talking with the 3G network. Every phone in a cell has to have the new 2.0.2 firmware for drop calls and slow speed to get solved. The Inside Deets on iPhone 2.0.2 and Dropped Calls [...]

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AppleInsider | New BlackBerry suffering same 3G connection drops as iPhone
early testing of the Bold, which uses the same 3G network standard as current iPhones, finds the device with just as unstable a connection as that reported in the US and elsewhere for Apple’s handset, with data sometimes dropping to the slower EDGE network or [...]

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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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Well, after two weeks of using the iPhone 3G and its 2.0, here are my notes for what works and what doesn’t. In general, this is the best phone I’ve ever used and for the first time in 12 years, I’m not using a Blackberry which is kinda of amazing. First the good, then the [...]

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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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Apple just release 7.3.2 which is an update for the firmware and the airport utility running on Macs and Windows. Not clear what it has besides bug fixes.
As with most Airport Extreme and Time Capsule fixes, it isn’t seemless. Pokrface has problems with it hanging the access points. Going back to 7.3.1 fixed that problem, [...]

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Hat tip to TUAW apparently, Tnkgrl has figured out how to open up a Superdrive, replace a part and thus make it universally compatible with all computers. Great geekout. OTOH, why go to all the trouble :-)? The photos are really useful so you can disassemble it. The short version is the black bottom comes [...]

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I just updated to the latest version of the firmware and now the TomTom hangs when search for a POI. Tomtom Forums reports lots of these problems. Basically, when searching a POI, it hangs on “Wait a moment…” amd then when you try to Find, you get a grey screen.
The above was for the 920, [...]

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