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When I got my iPhone yesterday, it took about 5 minutes to get activated, although I’ve seen reports of some iPhones that still haven’t been activated. My theory is people on the East coast who got their iPhones early and connected them right away had no trouble with activation. People in other time zones or [...]

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I arrived at the AT&T Store at Cypress Creek & Andrews Ave. in Fort Lauderdale at around noon. There were already 6 people ahead of me in line. Unfortunately I didn’t come prepared with a chair like a lot of people did, so it was pretty uncomfortable waiting there for 6 hours.

More people started arriving [...]

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Yes, I plan to buy an iPhone this Friday. I really hate my current LG CU500 since it can’t sync with a Mac, the battery life is horrible, and it doesn’t do POP3 or IMAP email. I do have a nice Gmail app for it, though. Like most phones, web browsing just plain sucks. It [...]

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Free Icons Graphics Buttons
Here is a colection of free (cc) buttons of various colours and sizes. Some are web 2.0 icon types and others are perhaps not.
(tags: free web2.0 design)

Collection of Sites Providing Free Web Icons and Buttons - Home for all things technical
list of sites providing icons, buttons and images for free
(tags: free icons [...]

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Plaxo looks like it might be a good alternative to .Mac sync. The new “3.0″ version includes a sync client for Mac OS X that can synchronize OS X address books and iCal calendars from one or Macs with Google, Yahoo, and other web-based addressbooks and calendars.
I’m thinking of dropping my .Mac service when it’s [...]

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floola.com

Music
Video
Podcast
Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your iTunes-compatible mobile phone. It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X
(tags: freeware ipod software itunes)

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I joined Facebook after Scoble kept tweeting about it all night.
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Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.
(tags: ajax development opensource web2.0)

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Marketcircle: iPhoney
iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it’s free.
(tags: iPhone)

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I was puzzled by why Parallels 3.0’s Windows sharing feature didn’t work on my MacBook Pro, although it did work when I tried Parallels under Leopard. This item at TUAW explained it.
I had installed MacFUSE 0.4 so I could experiment with procfs, which makes a lot of hardware and software information available as a file [...]

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Since DreamHost still doesn’t have the important WordPress 2.2.1 security update available for One-click, I switched to Subversion for upgrades. Thanks to carpeaqua for the pointer.
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webcomics collection
Wii-friendly Web comics
(tags: wii comics)

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Installing rEFIt on the hidden EFI system partition at Felipe Alfaro Solana
Install rEFIt on the system partition, instead of using Mac OS X system volume, allows one to manage rEFIt independently from Mac OS X. It is also possible to wipe out Mac OS X entirely while still being able to use rEFIt to boot [...]

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One limitation of Parallels Desktop 3.0 is that you can no longer resize a disk image (although Parallels says that will be fixed in an update to be released soon). If you need to resize a hard drive now, I found a good work-around for Windows XP: Acronis True Image Home.
The free trial copy [...]

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At Microsoft’s developers conference you get Steve Ballmer jumping around the stage screaming “Developers! Developers! Developers!”. At Apple’s developers conference we get Ozomatli.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The difference between Apple and Microsoft”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2007/06/17/the-difference-between-apple-and-microsoft/” });

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I’m finally home after being away for more than two weeks.
American Airlines went 3 for 3, delaying my luggage on all 3 legs of my trip. It happened yet again when I arrived home. I flew from SFO to DFW yesterday. Due to weather conditions, all flights in and out of DFW were delayed [...]

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rEFIt - Myths and Facts About Intel Macs
There are quite a few myths out there about what you can or can’t do with Intel Macs. Here you’ll find them disproven or backed up.
(tags: intel Mac)

OS X in VMware
Someone was able to get Mac OS X running under VMware! That would be a great way to [...]

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At first I was a bit disappointed that Apple decided to have their traditional Thursday night WWDC Bash in Yerba Buena Center across from Moscone instead of the Apple Campus as they usually do, but it turned out to be their most awesome bash of any WWDC I’ve attended. Apple usually gets a fairly popular [...]

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Like most WWDC attendees, I immediately tried Leopard. After two days, several reinstallations and lots of crashes, I went back to Tiger.
Leopard worked OK when I did a clean install on my external drive, but I couldn’t use it for any real work that way since I couldn’t access any of my email, address [...]

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After reading a review on MacZealots, I decided to try WiFind and ended up buying it.
WiFind is simple and very useful. It replaces the Airport status menu with a more informative menu telling whether each network is open or protected and the signal strength. It came in very handy at WWDC and is well worth [...]

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