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Fring Enables VoIP Calls Over Wi-Fi for iPhone with Skype Support – Mac Rumors
Can call directly using iPhone to another person with iPhone running Fring – Call MSN or Skype users that are using their computer – Call using Skype account, which allows you to have your own Skype number and at a discount rate for international [...]

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I’m an idiot, I imported 7000 contacts into Skype. I know, I should have just allowed things to be seen. There is no documented way to delete contact except one by one. The problem is that it is not clear how to select all contacts. Here is how you do it:

Click on the contact group [...]

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You can only hope. Right now, you can’t even playback a YouTube video without the processor overheating and making it obsolete.
Apple Releases MacBook Air Software Update to Address Video Playback – Mac Rumors
This update is recommended for all MacBook Air computers, and addresses issues with video playback and processor core idling.
Third-party software that modifies processor [...]

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What the heck is going on with networks. It is complicated as heck. Try Airgrab and iStumbler to try to figure out what it out there. Still haven’t figured a simple way to find out what is the channel and actual speed of the network a Mac client is running. I can see how to [...]

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Hurry, these guys are geniuses. Means hopefully you’ll be about to unlock the phone so you could use it on another carrier and still use the many freeware applications out there as well.
Unlock/jailbreak for iPhone OS 2.0 imminent (screenshot) – iPhone Atlas
The iPhone Dev team has posted a screenshot, seen below, of an iPhone running [...]

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On my Macbook, suddenly syslogd is running away. Seems like http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071030233438149 suggests that this is because of Tie Machine, even though I have it switched off. You can go and kill it with /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor and hopefully the new instance won’t go crazy.
In my case, I did this and the new syslogd is still going [...]

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As Calvin pointed out, its a pain to do the string length and other calculations, so I went back and rewrote the anagram calculation using the prime number trick. That is, assign a prime to each letter from ‘a’ to ‘z’, then you can easily tell if two words are anagrams by multiplying all the [...]

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