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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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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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John mentioned this quote to me and I had to find it’s source as http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borrow-great-poets-steal-not/ did. Turns out it is from criticism that T.S. Eliot wrote about Philip Massinger. It is a good notion that the really smart people just keep improving upon what others ahve done.
One of the surest tests [of the superiority [...]

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