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psmallNick Farrell a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Friday 5 December 2008. 08:11:00/small/ppi Took a while but it is ready /i/ppCLEARWIRE announced it has completed the transaction with Sprint Nextel to combine their next-generation wireless Internet businesses. According to a press release, the new outfit will keep the Clearwire name and expects to start building the first nationwide 4G mobile broadband network any day now..../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/280a359/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Clearwire, Sprint Nextel launches 4G mobile outfitlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/clearwire-sprint-nextel" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Clearwire, Sprint Nextel launches 4G mobile outfitlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/clearwire-sprint-nextel" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853604707/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41984857/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853604707/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41984857/a2.img" border="0"//a

I currently updated my iphone to the 2.2 FW using pwnage. I was playing around with my iphone and noticed that I was on the edge network for quite a while. When I checked the usage, I noticed that I accumulated about 29 mb of data surfing on the EDGE network. I freaked out because I heard stories of how high these service providers charge for 1 mb. My service provider currently is FIDO.

My question is, is there anyway to shut off the EDGE network so that my Iphone will inhibit my ability to automatically connect to EDGE. I strictly want to use WI-FI only.

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h4But ever so quietly/h4 pThe government's proposals to increase data sharing between departments will be buried in the Coroners and Justice Bill - which is expected to be presented to the House of Commons today..../p

psmallNick Farrell a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Friday 5 December 2008. 07:44:00/small/ppi He is a Zune user /i/ppAPPLE FANBOYS are in a hysterical lather over the news that president elect Barak Obama used a Zune instead of one of Steve Job's approved fruit-themed toys. The US's first techie president was seen using a Zune at the gym by hack Neal Santos who duly reported it in his.../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/2809e40/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Apple fanboys revolt over Obama rumourlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/apple-fanboys-revolt-obama" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Apple fanboys revolt over Obama rumourlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/apple-fanboys-revolt-obama" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853604012/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41983552/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853604012/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41983552/a2.img" border="0"//a

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I just noticed in my finder side bar that i have a folder named Untitled CD and then the burning symbol next to it. I tried restarting finder and restarted my comp a few times and it wont go away. I inserted a cd and ejected it and it wont go away. Any ideas? I attached a picture.
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p —bImagine shutters N-Revolution gaming mag/b : UK-based magazine publisher a href="http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk/" title="Imagine"Imagine/a is pulling the plug on N-Revolution, its Nintendo-focused title. But don't blame this one on the economy—Imagine is folding the mag because its core gamer target doesn't seem to be Nintendo's focus anymore. "[It] has become increasingly obvious that Nintendo's strategy for Wii and DS ... has moved increasingly away from the hardcore gaming community that is our specialty," said Damian Butts, Imagine's managing director, in an a href="http://www.mcvuk.com/news/32563/Imagine-confirms-NRevolution-closure" title="interview with MCV"interview with MCV/a. /p p —bRed Bull sets up shop in PlayStation Home/b : Red Bull is developing an island inside iHome/i, Sony's long-awaited virtual world for the PS3. 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The Army is building two islands in the world: one will serve as a welcome center with an info kiosk and the means to contact a recruiter, and the other will let residents test out various Army experiences, including jumping out of a plane and using a weapon. Residents that do well in the simulations can earn Lindens (virtual currency) that can be used to buy branded Army merchandise. It's a notable effort, though a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/the-armys-new-f.html" title="Wired says"Wired says/a Army brass has realistic expectations for just how effective a recruitment tool Second Life will be. 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Axiotron has the upgrade bug again, and it's making a litany of small, useful improvements to its Modbook that add up to a seriously improved machine. For starters, the rig now has a new hardware controller board for improved sleep, battery and system performance. Moreover, a fresh bonding process for the AnyView LCD panel and paper-emulating ForceGlass screen cover results in a "better contrast ratio, a firmer etched drawing surface, and decreased parallax between pen tip and cursor." Also of note, the updated beast incorporates the company's QuadCoat process, which protects the top shell with a liquid metallic coating and decreases the weight to 5.3-pounds. The Modbook starts at $2,249 by itself, or users can convert their non-aluminum Core 2 Duo-based Macbook into one starting at $1,299.

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I just bought a new Macbook 2.4 Aluminum. I had the pervious Black Macbook with a 320 HDD. I want to replace the 250 in my new Macbook with the 320giger. I've installed the drive and when I boot up, it just keeps shutting down and booting up and so on. Never reveals the Apple Logo..
I've also tried holding down the option key and it sees the drive as I can select it, but it again won't mount or something and just continues to reset it's self.

The HDD worked fine in my old Black Macbook (sold yesterday), and I can see it when I connect it to my new Macbook through usb from an external enclosure.


Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I called Apple and they did not have any answers for me and said they could not really support it as it was not the hard drive that shipped with the Macbook..
FYI the HDD that did ship with my Macbook works fine..

For Christmas, I'm thinking of giving my girlfriend a subscription to some web hosting service. She keeps misplacing thumb drives and stuff, and losing her files that way. Some web space to store her files would be the perfect solution.

She won't be hosting any websites or anything, just storing files, that's all.

So far, I actually think MobileMe seems to be the best solution, being simple, Windows and Mac-compatible, and it happens to come with email, calendar and photos (I think she would like the web gallery feature alot), as well as easy web access to her files. It can also be mapped as a networked drive on Windows (and used in the Finder in OS X), making it ideal. 20 GB of space is plenty for her.

I can get an account for her for the year for ~$60 on eBay.

Does anyone have better ideas or suggestions? I'd like to hear them!

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