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AT&T Pay As You Go works with iPhone 3G

September 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, if you are a massive data user, the iPhone 3G makes a lot of sense. But what if you want the nice iPhone interface but don’t want to pay the incredibly high $30/month data charges, what do you do. Well, some choices are:

Get a iPhone first generation on the “grey market”. Yes it will [...]

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iPhone Olympic App

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Lenovo Olympics 2008 App – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Lenovo, the Chinese manufacturer of ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook PCs and other electronic devices, is providing the free Lenovo Olympics 2008 App in the App Store now. You can download it from your iPhone or iPod touch by going to the App Store and searching for [...]

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Apple Shortcut keys

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Mac OS X

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
To open your Applications folder, click on your desktop and use the shift (⇧) and command (⌘) keys to type ⇧ ⌘ A. Voíla! Your Appplications folder appeareth.

Other folders have shortcuts too:

* Your computer: ⇧ ⌘ C * Your home folder: ⇧ ⌘ H [...]

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PDF and Firefox on Mac

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
If you switched to Firefox from another browser like Safari that supports in-line PDF viewing (that’s the ablity to look at a PDF in the browser instead of downloading it), then you might have been disheartened to learn that Firefox does not support this feature natively. However, you will find Firefox-Mac-PDF [...]

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