Demand for iPhone 4 is huge, that’s expected, but would you have guessed that both AT&T and Apple’s order processing sites would collapse under the weight pre-order traffic? And would you have guessed that long lines formed to just pre-order the device? Both are happening right now.
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Apple released a new Mac Mini for 2010, the first update to the model this year. Getting a speed bump, HDMI output, and an SD card slot, the 2010 Mac Mini also looks different than it’s predecessors. Boasting a smaller aluminum unibody enclosure, the new Mac Mini matches closely to other aluminum products in Apple’s lineup. The tiny machine is being dubbed as “the world’s most energy efficient desktop computer” consuming a surprisingly small amount of energy, an amazing 10 watts when the machine is idle.
The new Mac Mini is smaller than ever, at just 1.4″ tall and 7.7″ wide and deep. Updated tech specs and features include:
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You can easily stop the ‘Sent from my iPhone’ text from appearing on your iPhone emails by removing the text from the iPhone signature settings, here’s how to do that:
* Tap on “Settings”
* Tap on “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”
* Scroll down a ways and tap on “Signature”
* Tap on “Clear”
Now exit from Settings and your iPhone will no longer attach the “Sent from my iPhone” message with emails.
If you just want to change the iPhone email signature from the ‘sent’ message, just follow the directions from above but instead of tapping “Clear” and closing out, type a new message. When you exit the Signature Settings, your message will be your new signature.
Our sister site iOS Daily covered this tip earlier, and it actually applies to the iPad and iPod Touch as well.
Directions to remove the “Sent from my iPad” email signature on the iPad are the same as iPhone. It is a configurable message within the Signature portion of Mail Settings.
Pre-orders for iPhone 4 start today at qualified iPhone sales locations, basically if you pre-order the iPhone you’ll be able to come back in two weeks on June 24th to the same store and pick up the device without waiting in the giant sales lines (in some cases the iPhone will be mailed to you). The Apple Store will also ship the iPhone directly to your house. If you definitely want to get your hands on iPhone 4, it’s a good idea to buy ahead, the device is expected to sell out as the hype and anticipation continues to build. So you and your friends are asking “Where can I pre-order iPhone 4?”, stop wondering and drop by one of these locations:
You might want to arrive at a pre-order location early, there is strong speculation that there will be lines for even those buying ahead, and some stores may open early to accommodate the traffic. You’ll need to pay the full price of iPhone 4 (minimum of $199) to reserve one of the hotly anticipated devices.
If you’re having Synergy ‘cannot read configuration’ error problems, try the following:
* Get the latest version of Synergy KM from SourceForge
* Be sure the clients have the latest version of Synergy installed too (it’s pretty old for Windows clients, but works)
* Create a new ‘Location’ and re-add your server, screens, clients, in the order you desire.
* Pay attention to special characters and spaces, don’t use them in the synergy screen names. “ScreenName” is better than “Screen Name”
* Launch Synergy server and connect with clients
Now here’s the full explanation if you’re interested…
I recently added an external display on my Mac and as a result I had to adjust Synergy’s server configuration to know where to place my Mac, the new external screen, and my PC. (For those that don’t know, Synergy is a great utility that allows you to share a single mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, regardless of their platform. Mac OS, Windows, and Linux are supported). This sounds simple enough, so I just added a new screen name for my new LCD in the Synergy control panel, and clicked “Apply” – unfortunately that didn’t work, I got several errors and Synergy wouldn’t start:
ERROR: cannot read configuration "/var/tmp/synergy-A38198/
Was the first error, so I went and deleted the tmp files and tried again, to get a new error:
ERROR: cannot read configuration "/var/folders/iO/
I deleted those, and then got the first error again. Hmm, ok then. So what to do? I’ll just recreate the configuration, right?
I installed the newest Synergy KM, you can get the latest version of Synergy KM from SourceForge. I installed that and then entered into the “Server Configuration” tab in the Synergy KM panel. Created a “New Location” and added all my screens again, then started the synergy server. The server launched OK but was now throwing different configuration errors and wouldn’t let clients connect. Odd. So I re-added the screens again but just on a hunch I removed a space that I had in a screen name from “External Monitor” to “ExternalMonitor”, started the server again, and guess what? Everything worked. I thought this was really strange, but I’m guessing that for some reason the space in the screen name was causing Synergy to have difficulty in reading the configuration file. Dashes (-) seem to work fine, but spaces were problematic. I don’t have a ton of explanation for this because I’ve used spaces many times in names, but nonetheless that seemed to do the trick.
After Apple released iOS 4 at an App Store centric WWDC 2010, many people questioned the future of the Mac. Well, MacsimumNews took it upon themselves to email Steve Jobs and ask about the future of the Mac directly, here’s the exchange:
Mr Jobs,
Newsweek just ran an “obituary” for the Mac, saying the Mac has been “relegated to the steaming dung heap of the past.”
I hope he’s wrong, I believe and hope that the Mac will remain a vibrant, vital part of Apple’s future and one of its (admittedly many) product lines.
So, as you view it, does the Mac have a long and important history ahead of it?
Dennis
Interestingly enough, Steve Jobs responded in his typical short and sweet manner:
Completely wrong. Just wait.
Here’s a screenshot of the exchange via the aptly named EmailsFromSteveJobs.com:
So does the response from Steve allay the fears of the Mac community? I’m going to go ahead with the assumption that the Mac will be around for a while, but who knows what the future holds? We just have to wait and see the actions (and inactions) of Apple.
If you have installed the iPhone SDK, you will find the iPhone Simulator located at the following destination within your Xcode install:
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/
The app is named iPhone Simulator.app. Why Apple buried the iPhone Simulator app that deep into a directory, I don’t really know. If you can’t find the iPhone Simulator you may have a different version of the iPhone SDK, or you might only have Xcode installed without the iPhone SDK.
Welcome to Shaqintosh. I don’t know the origin of this Shaq Mac image but it really cracks me up. Consider this your totally stupid post of the day.
The 27″ iMac is a beautiful machine, this picture amuses me because it shows just how large the screen really is, dwarfing the older iMac and the 23″ Acer LCD next to it!
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One of Mail’s many talents (this one does not require a plugin) is the ability to automatically detect when a flight number is present and then give you the option to view the status using the flight tracking Dashboard widget.
You don’t have to do much to utilize this tip, just next time you receive an email, hover your mouse over the flight number as shown in this screenshot.
If everything is working, the Dashboard will automatically open up and display the status of the flight like so:
Nice.
