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A New Kind Of Heist: Six Apps For Free

Those crazy MacHeisters are at it again, and this time the deal is even harder to resist.
The first ever MacHeist Nano won’t cost you a penny. You can download, without charge, fully licensed copies of ShoveBox, WriteRoom, Twitterific, TinyGrab, and Hordes of Orcs. If 500,000 people take part (which I think is a pretty safe [...]

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A couple of weeks back, I wrote Temporarily Get More iPhone Home Screens Via Cunning Bug Exploit, but had heard staying away from the iTunes Applications tab within my iPhone was probably a Very Good Idea. Reader Larry Pressnell noted that since the most recent iTunes update, his extra screens have been accessible in iTunes.
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Cult of Mac Favorite: MobileStacks Is the Best Reason To Jailbreak. Period.

I really like Stacks on my Mac. Stacks makes it fast and easy to find files, folders and apps right from the Dock. It makes managing a Mac pretty slick with all sorts of little UI tricks. That’s why I recently gave MobileStack a go on my jailbroken iPhone.
I must say that it lives up to the [...]

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Is this Steve Jobs driving a tank in a classic Apple TV spot from the late 1990s? That was the rumor at the time: Jobs was making cameos in Apple commercials.
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MobileMe Services Remain a Dark Cloud

11:14 am, August 12th, 2008, Lonnie Lazar

mobileme_box.pngYesterday we were all set to post about the MobileMe mail server crash and ask how it is new boss Eddie Cue hasn’t already fixed Apple’s troubled web services division in the week or so he’s been on the job.

Then the servers came back up.

All MobileMe mail users were only affected for a couple of hours, but it appears there were sporadic outages for some customers throughout the evening and continuing into today. Steve Jobs has promised to have the service ship-shape by the end of the year, but that’s four and a half months of potential bumpiness that can’t be good for Apple’s PR.

Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Apple, Customer Services, Software | Comment on this article

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3 comments

    If you check the update page, it promises to have given an update. 2 weeks ago. No word still. For some MobileMe users, it’s still a bumpy painful road.

    Tom, on August 12th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    I think you mean Eddie Cue?

    Eric, on August 12th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    I think its a disaster. the honeymoon on my brand new 3G iPhone is over.
    the calender synching implosion is reason enough for me to go back to a Palm.
    I mean c’mon! thats so basic….

    Starchy, on August 14th, 2008 at 11:59 am