In mid July I was trying to buy some Apps or Music from the iTunes Music Store. It seemed like every day I was getting a message that my account had been disabled for security reasons. It was really annoying. I was having to change my password for iTunes every day.…
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There’s a strange new phenomenon going on. AT&T cares about what version of the iPhone OS I am running on my phone and will actually send me a text message when a new version is available. What’s also interesting is that AT&T sent this to me
after I had already updated.…
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It looks like the last page refresh has come from engadget.com and live.gizmodo.com and all the news is now news. Kevin Rose’s leaks on the Nano and iTunes were mostly right. The Genius feature looks like the natural evolution of the iTunes MiniStore and smart playlists.…
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I’m having a bit of fun playing with the Twitter Module for Drupal. The project has not been updated since July but there is a lot of discussion about how to patch it. For the uninitiated, this module posts a ‘tweet’ on Twitter whenever you post something to your web site.…
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Jerry Seinfeld was know for his show about nothing. Now he and Bill Gates have their first commercial about nothing. While only a minute and a half it has all the elements of a classic Seinfeld episode. There are several elements which seem out of place but recur for comedic effect.…
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I had a friend ask me for some advice on buying a mac for the home. They had already bought a Mac Book and Mac Book Pro and now it seems time to replace that old generic PC in the kitchen with a new Mac Mini.…
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Even though Entourage supports Exchange Server via a funky hybrid of IMAP and OWA, when you use Entourage with ExchangeLabs, you will have to use it in the IMAP or POP3 mode. You will not have access to your calendars and contacts on the client.…
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ExchangeLabs seems to support the iPhone via ActiveSync for Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. You still have to accept the invalid SSL certificate because the DNS settings are not right and then type in the server name manually. Just change the server to m.exchangelabs.com.…
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ExchangeLabs.com is Microsoft’s hosted Exchange server solution. It is not a true Exchange Server implementation but it does offer many of the features of Exchange. One of those features is Chat. Of course you could use the MSN client on Mac OS X.…
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Web site for a High School Band in Bellingham, Washington
Every couple of years I need to buy tires for my car. When it comes that time I call around to the various stores looking for a good price, I search the Internet, and ultimately go to Discount Tire. They are not always the cheapest but they have several examples over their competition.…
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You can now sync your Google calendar with iCal. This is great. It greatly simplifies the question of how to sync multiple computers. Now you can think of calendaring like IMAP mail. That is you can use any computer to see your stuff.…
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