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The news follows the loss of Gainward, a company now fabricating ATI-based boards. While details of the supposed deal are scarce, it is known that the two companies, XFX and EVGA, are not defecting to rival GPU manufacturer ATI. …

A great deal of speculation over Job’s health and uncertainty regarding his future prospects as CEO of Apple contributed to a sharp decline in Apple’s stock yesterday, after the company reported solid earnings and a muted outlook for …

AlleyInsider reports on AT&T’s Q2 financial results. AT&T posted $30.9 billion in revenue, up 4.7% year-over-year.

In Apple related news, AT&T revealed that despite ongoing iPhone shortages, the iPhone 3G sales are nearly double tha…

Simply start listening to your music, then while listening, start your game. Wait until the music stops and the game’s music begins. Now just press the top iPhone button; this will put your phone to sleep. Press your headphone button to start the iPod music, than wake up your phone, slide to activate, and you’ll be back to the game while listening to your music.

[robg adds: You can also double-tap the Home button to bring up the iPod controller, assuming you have the phone’s preferences configured to do so.]

Although a first solution for this problem is already available in the App Store, there are still some shortcomings (no landscape, no iWork docs) apparent in this app. I’m fully convinced we’ll see this app in much better shape soon, but until then do this: Simply send the docs via email to yourself.

That’s it - you can view a lot of document types in Mail — even in landscape mode.

[robg adds: Although not included with the hint submission, I believe the program the submitter is referring to is ReaddleDocs. Prior hints on this subject have covered sending documents to yourself as PDFs, using data URLs, and using Safari on a jailbroken iP…

Google searches for Sync iDisk largely show results that say something along the lines of “just edit the iDisk version.” For me, iDisk is more about backup than anything else. I don’t really have the need to share Documents with other people, and the local Documents folder of my laptop is always authoritative for my data. However, it would be nice to have a synced and restorable copy of my Documents “in the cloud” in the event my laptop fails. rsync works well for this.

My first step was to log into MobileMe, click the Account link, then to click on Storage Settings. Here I dropped my mail storage from 10Gb to 2Gb and ended up with an 18Gb iDisk, perfect for backing up my critical documents. Next, I wrote up a simple shell script to handle the rsync function and to copy the data from my local Documents folder to my iDisk’s Documents folder.
The script is below …

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Apple has posted a support document suggesting that the continuing MobileMe email outage affecting 1% of MobileMe users is due to a “serious” issue with one of their mail servers. Affected users have been unable to send or receive email since the tu…