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MacWorld Sweden caught the attention of iPhone users when they reported that Swedish carrier Telia is planning on bringing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to their iPhone users. MMS is a feature that has been long requested by iPhone users and wo…

TechRadar.com reports on some preliminary benchmarks on Intel’s upcoming Nehalem EP chips which they say will be sold as the Xeon X5560 CPUs in the 1st quarter of 2009. Apple has traditionally used the Xeon processors for the Mac Pro line.
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German publication Spiegel.de reports an newly announced iPhone vulnerability that can force a (potentially expensive) phone call to be made simply by visiting a webpage in Safari. The vulnerability was to be announced in ComputerBild on Monday bu…

Earlier this week, IBM announced its plans to buy Transitive, a small cross-platform virtualization company.

MacRumors readers will remember the company for providing the technology behind Rosetta, Apple’s PowerPC emulator for Mac OS…

Published 3 hours ago by Aviv at MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News … Seeing as how Apple is trying to avoid having to turn the LCD screen on, the backlit status indicators could not be powered by the primary LCD’s backlight. …

If you’re having a problem with a wireless USB mouse skipping, double-clicking instead of single-clicking, or otherwise acting weird, and you’ve tried fooling with the software and the dongle to no avail, consider whether the problem might be with the keyboard…even if the mouse dongle is plugged into the computer, not the keyboard. And even if the keyboard is wired.

I had Logitech send me two mice which seemed totally flaky until I happened to unplug my keyboard, and found that the mouse worked like a champ. Now, whenever the mouse seems fritzy, I unplug and replug the keyboard’s USB plug and it all gets better.

Weird, but there you go….

It is now well-known the four finger gesture to change apps. You swipe four fingers, right or left, and a bezel with open apps appears, as with Command-Tab. Then if you swipe with two fingers, you will select a different app, which can be switched to by tapping with four fingers.

One thing I saw today is that you don’t have to release all your fingers after the four-finger swipe and the two-finger swipe. Simply make the first swipe and only release two fingers; the system will recognize correctly the new gesture, and you save a bit of time.

A similar thing happens with the zoom gesture in some applications such as Preview: you can zoom-in and zoom-out without release your fingers. Safari behaves a bit differenlyt: you can zoom-in/out without releasing your fingers, but it will only increase/decrease the page size once (Preview performs a continuous zoom). For larger zooms in Safari, you need to release your fingers.

On the other hand, a change between zoom and s…

I just bought a new aluminum MacBook, and discovered that I couldn’t get an IR remote control to pair with the notebook. This is optional, but it prevents other remotes from controlling your Mac.

If you go to the Security System Preferences panel, you’ll find a Pair/Unpair button. Clicking on Pair brings up a message instructing you to press and hold the Menu and Next buttons on the remote until a “paired” icon appears.

I tried this several times with no luck. Finally, I found that you have to be running an admin account for this to work — there is no indication that you can’t pair from a non-administrator account. As a matter of fact, the panel is disabled until you click the lock and enter an admin account and password. But even after unlocking, you still can’t pair from a standard account.

So if you have trouble pairing a new remote, make sure you log into an admin account first.

I have six mail accounts that I check on with my iPhone, and for months, I’ve moved read e-mails to the Trash. What I forgot was that the trash needs to be cleared periodically. I regained a couple of hundred megabytes of space by cleaning all the accounts.

To empty the Trash you must enter each account, then enter the Trash and tap Edit. You are then given the option to Delete All. Select Delete All, then confirm the Delete All. A simple tip, but one that may free up a fair bit of space on your iPhone.

For those of us who must use Lotus Notes (LN) on Mac OS X, it is the bane of our existence. The installer is basically broken, and it’s not configured for multi-user setup. But today, all that changes! I have devised a series of procedures to make LN easier to install, and also to make it “multi-user aware.” These notes are known to work with LN 7.0.3, but may work with any R7 flavor, and may be able to be altered for 6.5.6, which is the last 6.5x version for OS X.

Some of the problems with the LN installer :

1. Sometimes LN does not ask for authorization
2. Running as a non-admin user does not work correctly
3. Only installs the templates and seed files (referred to as seed files) to the directory of the account that installed it.

The third one is really a problem. The installer assumes that the person who is going to use LN is the same person who installed it, and to install it, you need to be an admin. Read on to see how I fixed this mess…
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