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Amy Clancy of KIRO 7 TV in Seattle reports on her investigation of complaints of iPods overheating, smoldering and catching fire. The complaints, made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, amount to over 800 pages of documentation covering…

Pubblog.com today announces the release of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro, version 8.2.4. MailSteward archives email in a relational database for easy access and safe backup of all your email. With this release there are new free versions of MailSteward. The free versions have all of the same functionality as the licensed versions, but have an upper limit of 15,000 emails per database.

Yabdab Software today launches public beta of CartLoom ecommerce service and free companion RapidWeaver plugin. CartLoom is a new solution designed for merchants and web designers who need to incorporate the sale of physical or digital goods into their websites. The service supports management of products, inventory, tax, shipping and digital distribution via a simple web interface. A free companion plugin for the popular RapidWeaver web design package is also available.

Norbert M. Doerner today released CDFinder 5.6.1, an update to the popular disk library cataloger. CDFinder keeps track of your digital files, photos, songs, movies, on hard disks, CDROMs, Blu-ray disks, DVD-ROMs, server disks, and any other digital media. Version 5.6.1 adds cataloging support for Elgato EyeTV recordings, and a street-level map for the GeoFinder GPS photo search engine.

The Street’s Scott Moritz reports that Apple is planning to release its long-rumored tablet computer “in time for the holidays” later this year. While Apple is reportedly still deciding on a sales model for the new device, Moritz’s source reports th…

German GPS firm Navigon has finally released MobileNavigator North America [App Store, $69.99 through August 15th and $99.99 thereafter], one of the first full-featured turn-by-turn GPS navigation applications for the iPhone. While several subscript…

A couple of weeks ago, something went wrong with my iPhoto database and I lost a lot of thumbnails. I held down the Option key when launching iPhoto, and selected all the rebuild options. Unfortunately it didn’t recreate the thumbs for Faces.

I found a hint to delete the Faces database to force it to recreate. However, in my case I had tagged too many images to reset the database. I did find a way to recreate the images, though it is time consuming.

When I browsed the library in Faces, some of the thumbnails were there, others were missing. I selected the missing ones, Control-clicked and selected ‘Detect Missing Faces’ and it recreated the thumbnails. Unfortunately, you need to do this for each person in your Faces database, but it’s the only way I could find to recreate the thumbnails.

Since the release of 3.0, cut-copy-paste has been an amazing feature. I have used and abused it from SMS to Safari and beyond. I will claim I can type up a storm (no pun intended) on my iPhone and will generally leave characters behind, or find words that the auto-correct thinks are different than I do. To prevent confusion, I always double-check and correct my typos.

With the iPhone, you have always been able to press and hold and obtain the magnifying class to get precisely where you want in the text. In 3.0, I have noticed a little lag when doing so (and it may be my 3G; who knows) and trying to edit my text. As such, the easier correction method here is to double-tap the incorrectly spelled word and then start back over clean.

This hint can also be used for mass delete or mass replacement of text.

This hints allows your firewall to automatically turn on or off based upon which network you are on. A LaunchAgent watches resolv.conf in order to detect when there are changes in the network. Save the following in /Library/LaunchAgents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"><plist version="1.0"><dict>  <key>KeepAlive</key>  <false/>  <key>Label</key>  <string>com.yourcompany.autofirewall</string>  <key>ProgramArguments</key>  <array>    <string>/Library/Scripts/yourcompany/autofirewall.sh</string>  </array>  <key>RunAtLoad</key>  <false/>  <key>WatchPaths</key> ...