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First Edition of "Current in Real Estate" newspaper

So I got this new job publishing a specialty newspaper aimed at Indiana realtors.  I hope it works out, as I get a real kick out of seeing my name in print.  Even if it is me who puts it there.

Hey Marian,

Pocket Mac is a horrible application, and I believe the Curve is not supported. Have him/her try Missing Sync for Blackberry. They just came out with a new v2.0 for the Blackberry platform. It’s going to
cost $40, but it is well worth it.

http://www.markspace.com

Giuseppe Di Franco
gdifranco@me.com

Dear BlackBerry users,

A co-worker has a Blackberry Curve that she would like to sync with her iMac running OX 10.4.11. She says she downloaded the Pocket Mac software, but her Mac will not see the BlackBerry at all. Not sure if she also installed the updated drivers or not. Or if she needs to. Any suggestions on how to solve this? Buying an iPhone is not an option.

Thanks much!
Marian Wertalka

I’ve counted over 30 articles from the likes of the WS Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, TheStreet.com to Macswoop, mostly pointing out how disappointed they are with Apple’s Q1 Financial Report. The company reports a 47% profit increase and a 57% rise in profit. What do ya’ll expect? Steve Jobs plays poker AND HOLDS HIS CARDS close to his vest? 

Apple just isn’t going to let anyone know what the future holds, until they are darn good and ready. 

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From Macfixit this is a great article

Archive and Install
It’s amazing how much controversy was generated by our recommendation that users perform an Archive and Install when upgrading from Mac OS X 10.4.x to Mac OS X 10.5.x, with pundits claiming that the process represents a wholly unnecessary waste of time. This despite the fact that hundreds if not thousands of who used the default “Upgrade” path experienced problems that could have been obviated by the generally painless and relatively quick Archive and Install process, which we initially recommended and Apple later proposed itself in a Knowledge Base article.

Below is the movie I made showing icons moving in the top right of the menu bar, while holding down the “COMMAND” key. Some icons seem they cannot move, while others can but will only drop in certain areas. This is on Leopard 10.5.1, Macbook Pro 2.33

Dock Rearranging 

We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.

Steve (P. Jobs)

P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch. [Oct 17, 2007]

I’m not sure why Steve Jobs didn’t just think of saying this back at the Developer Conference when announcing the iPhone. He could have said “soon after” or “within a reasonable amount of time” or “soon, with relation to the release of Leopard and it’s new SDK’s”. Perhaps this is all part of his plan anyway. They say, “… any press is good press”, so I imagine the furor over the iPhone and it’s “closed” architecture was a test for Apple to find out how vulnerable this v.1 product is, also to see how truly interested developers really are in the platform.

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Thanks Steve. It’s a fair gesture – and it should appease we worried investors, even though it’s only costing Apple $100 Million or so. Probably not even that seeing as you have to buy another Apple product that is also marked up. I’m going to pick up iWork & iLife. I’m tired of waiting for our NFR copies.

I’ve seen people griping about different shortcomings of the new iPhone. Mostly though, people seem to be loving them.

What’s my pet peeve? You cannot manually add songs as you choose, directly to the iPhone! You can add playlists, but not by drag & drop. Oh no, you have to select which playlists to add to the phone. So if you just want to add 1 song, it MUST BE IN A PLAYLIST! This is a really stupid programming oversight. You’d think with the success of the iPOD, Apple would know to make the interface consistent with the iPod. You also have to perform “Sync” in order to add the song. I didn’t really buy an iPhone to use as a music player. I bought it for other features, and so far I am pretty happy with the decision.

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6.45am – the 20 or so die hards weathered the downpour overnight & a bloody deluge at around 7.30am. I’m dong this from my Treo 700p which will be retired by 7pm tonight (hopefully)! Some video of the rain deluge and crowd.