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The device would primarily compete against Apple, Research in Motion, and others through sheer feature set. Confirming some earlier details, the leak would equip Alexander with a camera between five and eight megapixels and would also …

A financial analyst at UBS Investment Research publishes his outlook for Apple’s product line in 2008 and 2009, as reported by AppleInsider.

The analyst Maynard Um also cites “industry checks” to confirm that the MacBook and iPod will …

Derek Lomas, an American graduate student, has recruited Apple II enthusiasts at this month’s MIT International Development Design Summit “to give Third World schools Apple II computer labs like the ones I grew up with.” …

Citing a State of the Net survey that says Mac users fall prey to phishing scams at about the same rate as Windows users, CR recommends Mac users ditch Safari for Firefox or Opera until Apple builds phishing protection into its flagship …

Well, if you’re like me and already have backup solutions running in your Open Directory, you may not want your users using Time Machine, for whatever reasons you may have. In Work Group Manager (WGM), select your groups (or your parent group) and select the Details tab. Then add the following to the details list:

/System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app

Once you add that in to the Details part of WGM, you can select the menu items and click on the pencil icon to add a string to disable Time Machine from the menu bar. So, click on the pencil icon and a new window should pop up. It should display Once, Often, Always. Select and expand the arrow key on Always, and then click on the New Key button. Select Edit from the drop-box, and name it TimeMachine.menu, then for Type, select boolean, and for Value, select false. Attached is a scre…

Be aware that if you leave an email message displayed/open on your iPhone, that message may not appear in Mail’s messages list on your computer(s).

I’ve tried to replicate the issue with other messages, but wasn’t able to do so 100% of the time. So I’m not sure why sometimes this is the case, and other times not. In any event, this is how it happened:

• My iPhone was in Sleep mode.
• On my MBP, I read an email message, flagged it, marked it Unread, and moved on to other email messages.
• When finished (leaving Mail open), I put my MBP to sleep.
• Later that evening on my iPhone, I opened that email message.
• Without closing the message, I put my iPhone to sleep.
• The next day, back in Mail on my MBP, that message was no longer in the messages list.

On my iPhone, the “missing” message was still displayed in the Mail app. I closed the message by returning to the messages list, and after a couple minutes, that message was once…

Safari’s new ‘Reopen All Windows From Last Session’ feature is great, but it needs to be improved upon. For example, I usually have a lot of windows with a lot of tabs. Unfortunately, if I start up Safari and then close it down without first clicking ‘Reopen All Windows From Last Session,’ well, my last session is now a single window. What I want is something like Time Machine for Safari.

I have been using the following method (posted on my blog) for several months. Basically, the process involves creating a script and a LaunchAgent to run the script. I hope that this helps others as much as it has helped me!

[robg adds: Read the rest of the article for the how-to from the author’s blog — however, this is here primarily as backup, in case the original blog post ever vanishes. Any changes to the original post won’t be reflected here, but read on for the write-up as it appeared on the author’s blog as …

Many news sites post the next day’s contributor columns several hours before providing a link on the website. Since these typically use a standard, date-based URL, I’ve created JavaScript bookmarks that automatically update to check if tomorrow’s column has been posted.

For example, the following bookmark will check to see if David Pogue’s latest State of the Art column has been posted. (Since his feature runs every Thursday, the bookmark will pull up his next column when it’s posted on Wednesday afternoon/evening). The standard URL format for his column is:

http://www.nytimes.com/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/technology/personaltech/DAYpogue.html

So my JavaScript bookmark looks like this:

javascript:d=new Date();window.open("http://www.nytimes.com/"+d.getFullYear()+"/0"+(d.getMonth()+1)+"/"+(d.getDate()+1)+"/te...