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Some Time Machine users are noticing that their backups are not including new files. While the backups run every hour, and no apparent problems seem to occur during the backup process, when users check the backups for recent created files, the items are not there.
(Via Macworld.)
If you’re looking for ways to get more control over your Mail inbox, consider taking advantage of a built-in feature in Mail’s rules to help you identify those messages that need your immediate attention. As you’re probably aware, you can use Mail’s Rules to set up rules that filter your e-mail, based on conditions you specify. By using one of the Apple-provided conditions, you can set up a rule to help you (visually and/or audibly) identify e-mails from people you are actively corresponding with.
In an otherwise innocuous announcement that the iTunes App Store has seen 60 million downloads since its beginning, Steve Jobs confirmed the existence of a software “kill switch” on the iPhone.
Whichever way you cut it, that’s a big number, even if, as Gigaom’s Om Malik suggests, people aren’t actually using most of those applications. Even more interesting for us, though, is the strangely open and forthcoming answer Jobs gave when asked about the remote kill switch for iPhone applications. Jobs confirmed that it is indeed possible for Apple to reach into your phone from afar and disable applications: “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull” he told the Wall Street Journal.
This is enough to keep me away from the iPhone. Personally, I’m glad I didn’t jump in May as planned. I’ll stick with a phone I own and control – the Blackberry.
Tags: digital rights, iphone, kill switch, software
(Via MacNN.)
TomTom has in fact produced real-time navigation software for the iPhone, according to one of the company’s French representatives. Yann Lafargue denies allegations from other sources, which first said that Apple’s SDK license forbids real-time navigation, and then that TomTom itself had no internal prototypes. “Since the SDK became available,” L…
(Via Infinite Loop.)
The University of Kansas has paired with Apple to try and get new faces into its concert hall. Free Philip Glass downloads for one and all!
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends
You know that sudden motion sensor that’s buried in your Mac to protect your hard drive? Want to have a little fun with it? Then check out Liquid Mac, a neat little app that makes your laptop’s screen look like it’s filled with colored water.
Once you’ve downloaded the app, select the color and response sensitivity you want, then gently tilt your laptop and watch the fluid splash around the screen. It’s oddly soothing, actually, unless you slosh it around too fast and make yourself nauseous.
When you tire of making waves, adjust the settings to represent beads and watch it rain on your screen. To see Liquid Mac in action, check out this cool video.
(Via Macworld.)
If you’re still spooked by the idea of viewing headers along with a preview of a message—even without HTML turned on—you can follow this little tip from Macworld’s Gemmeister, Dan Frakes: Give Limit Point Software’s MailCM a try. This is a contextual menu plugin/pref pane that, among other things, lets you copy a message’s headers without opening or previewing the message. Of course you’ll have to then paste that header into a text document or empty email message in order to examine its contents, which seems like an incredible pain in the neck to me. But then, I’m not easily spooked.
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