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Well, if you like fun puzzles and word problems, a google:”word puzzles” gets you to a sea of interesting sites. I like Puzzlersparadise.com for a good collection of word problems.

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If you search Google on your iphone and click on a link, it uses a javascript program to make the page look good. The Javascript takes a multicolumn page and turn it into a single readable column.  But, it is quite hard to get it to do it without going to Google all the time [...]

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Spanning Sync is supposed to sync Google Calendar with iCal, but there are many issues. Busy Sync apparently works better. The big issue is how do you uninstall it. Most Mac apps are a drag to trash, but here, you need to reload the trial and click on the DMG and they have a dedicated [...]

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Using Google as a free MobileMe alternative (with push contacts & calendar) | Beau Giles
Making Push & Fetch for Google Calendars Work for 2.0 Users
from ModMyiFone.com by chriscoyne
After talking with an Apple Representative today, I was asking more about how to use Push and Fetch features. Especially, for Google calendars to sync to the iPhone [...]

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Well, I’ve been trying to get Google and Exchange to work. Tried Google Sync for Outlook. Now, the usual question, Google sync, says “do you want to delete 415 events in your Outlook calendar?” There can only be really one answer to that:

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So I think the best choice is to backup Outlook, then do the [...]

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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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If itunes finds the artwork for you, it never adds it to your MP3 files, so you have to Get Info and copy and past it. If you have art yourself, then you have to copy and paste them in. A little strange.
Pushing Album art to MP3 files – Mac Forums
n my experience they only [...]

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Whether you are a small business or a family, everyone needs the same three things:

Email ideally from your own vanity domain, whether it is myname@tongfamily.com or myname@igncap.com, while having a @gmail.com or @me.com is nice, we all want our own identity. And we need lots of disk space, at least 2GB per user. Have wireless [...]

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Google finally has their contacts close to a separate application. You can get a list when you logon to gmail and edit them. The biggest issues are:

1. Amazingly that Google has got to be the only contact manager that has no notion of first name and last name. It is all one field. So there [...]

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Well it isn’t perfect yet. Seems to work great for one calendar that is read/write on Google Calendar and also to have lots of read-only calendars (iCal calls these subscriptions) while read/write calendars are called accounts. (The bigger issue is that iPhone sync with Nuevasync doesn’t seem to work).

There is also much confusion about how [...]

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