I was browsing MacRumors iPhone home page and saw this in the list of Apps.
I downloaded it, and it's totally cool. It allows you to password protect your
notepad so that you can write notes and reminders to yourself and no one
else can ever access them. :)
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I've been having all sorts of problems lately on my Macbook Pro. Things are starting to slow down. A restart doesn't fix it. I'm pissed off how Safari acts like it's running on the iPhone(before firmware 2.2 that is). It crashes like every 30 minutes or something. Even when I'm scrolling Macrumors.

Here's another thing. Whenever I click Restart from the apple menu, does nada. Only thing it closes is my iTunes. Safari, Mail, iCal just sit there.

Then, I manually quit the app but I have to force-quit mail every single time. Even when I'm not restarting. Mail works awesome and fetches my gmail and everything but it refuses to quit. I have to force quit at least 3 times for it to actually quit.

So, I'm thinking to erasing everything and do a clean install of Leopard. But before doing that, I wanted to ask if it is practical, because I have a lot of stuff on here so back up would take hours.

I mean, do users who do a clean install experience that new fast feeling?


P.S. My hard disk space is about 65 GB out of 200. Not too bad right? I don't believe that is the problem.
P.P.S: Running 10.5.5

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Surprisingly, Apple has released the iPhone 2.2 firmware tonight shortly after midnight. The latest update is available in iTunes for existing iPhone and iPod touch owners. The update contains:
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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4926bde8796c7a65008cd3dcmaxX=320maxY=213" border="0" alt="iphone-street-view.jpg" title="iphone-street-view.jpg" width="320" height="213" /Another free time waster (and useful feature) for iPhone owners, courtesy Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 2.2 software update, which rolled out last night: Google Maps Street View./p pThis catches the iPhone up with Google's (GOOG) G1 'GPhone', though the iPhone doesn't seem to have the same automatic "digital compass" technology as the G1, so you have to move around manually. That's fine -- either way, very addictive./p pThe software update also includes some user interface improvements and lets you download podcasts over the air. It does emnot/em include over-the-air iTunes purchases, as a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/are-over-the-air-itunes-downloads-coming-soon-"we had supposed it might/a. Seems like that's a rights/pricing issue./p pList of new 2.2 features, a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/21/apple-releases-iphone-2-2-firmware/"via MacRumors/a:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Enhancements to Mapsbr /- Google Street Viewbr /- public transit and walking diretionsbr /- display address of dropped pinsbr /- share location via emailbr /Enhancements to Mailbr /- resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of emailbr /- improved formatting of wide HTML emailbr /Improved stability and performance of Safaribr /Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular)br /Decrease in call set-up failures and call dropsbr /Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messagesbr /Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screenbr /Preferences to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard settings/p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="../../2008/11/rim-blackberry-storm-review"RIM's BlackBerry Storm Is No iPhone, But Should Sell Well/abr /a href="../../2008/11/next-year-s-iphone-sales-your-guess-as-good-as-the-analysts-aapl-"Next Year's iPhone Sales: A Crapshoot/abr /a href="../../2008/11/blackberry-storm-coming-to-verizon-nov-21-for-199-rimm-"BlackBerry Storm Coming Nov. 21 For $199, iPhone Not Toast/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Adei4t3QPPYDV7aefOcVissMrHA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Adei4t3QPPYDV7aefOcVissMrHA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=QFvbOnTg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=QFvbOnTg" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Xr6fPqT2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=VuvJ3ONB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=E3o2oveg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=E3o2oveg" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Do6ml4OF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=XJJaztog"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=xVdscmSf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=qPtACp17"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/WcO_mUIrSxQ" height="1" width="1"/

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Surprisingly, Apple has released the iPhone 2.2 firmware tonight shortly after midnight. The latest update is available in iTunes for existing iPhone and iPod touch owners. The update contains:
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Street View in Firmware 2.2
Surprisingly, Apple has released the iPhone 2.2 firmware in the middle of the night. The latest update is available in iTunes for existing iPhone and iPod touch owners. The update contains:

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Surprisingly, Apple has released the iPhone 2.2 firmware in the middle of the night. The latest update is available in iTunes for existing iPhone owners. The update contains:
Enhancements to Maps
- Google Street View
-...

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Quote: Oops. Jordan Hubbard, Director of Apple's Unix Technology Group, made a boo boo. The slide above was pulled from the deck presented last week at the LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference. Up until now, Apple had only been willing to say that OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard would be ready "in about a year" -- that was back in early June at WWDC. You just know that this will have Steve fuming given Apple's tight control over information. One thing is perfectly clear: the race is on for both Redmond (rumored to be shooting for a mid-2009 Windows 7 launch) and Cupertino, nobody wants to be second with their next gen OS release.

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A few years ago I installed Norton antivirus 9.0 & Systemworks 3.0. Shortly after that I had been informed through MacRumors posts that Norton was not needed for Macs or mine as I took it. I have since been bombarded with updates saying I need to update the software for a fee. I have neglected doing this for said reasons.

To date I have upgraded to Leopard & upon each startup would get windows I had to respond to in order to proceed to my home page, namely #1 window "Norton Utilities detects new version OS" & #2 Norton Error-could not continue etc". For this reason I "Uninstalled " both Norton packages, it's great- no more pop-up windows & on startup I can walk away and return with my homepage loaded.

Question is, maybe things have changed? should I reinstal the software and upgrade it? If so, should I reinstal or just buy the newest version available, I doubt I'd get any discount anyhow...

TIA...:confused:

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Apple has released an update to iTunes to version 8.0.2. The update is available in your Mac OS X software update.
iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

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MacWorld Sweden caught the attention of iPhone users when they reported that Swedish carrier Telia is planning on bringing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to their iPhone users. MMS is a feature that has been long requested by iPhone users and wo...

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just saw it going to macrumors to bad mines is dead :(

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TechRadar.com reports on some preliminary benchmarks on Intel's upcoming Nehalem EP chips which they say will be sold as the Xeon X5560 CPUs in the 1st quarter of 2009. Apple has traditionally used the Xeon processors for the Mac Pro line.
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Earlier this week, IBM announced its plans to buy Transitive, a small cross-platform virtualization company.

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German publication Spiegel.de reports an newly announced iPhone vulnerability that can force a (potentially expensive) phone call to be made simply by visiting a webpage in Safari. The vulnerability was to be announced in ComputerBild on Monday bu...

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source - http://mobile.slashdot.org/mobile/08.../2218217.shtml

"Appleinsider is reporting that the new MacBooks/MacBookPros have built-in copy protection. Quote: 'Apple's new MacBook lines include a form of digital copy protection that will prevent protected media, such as DRM-infused iTunes movies, from playing back on devices that aren't compliant with the new priority protection measures.' Ars Technica is also reporting on the issue. Is this the deal they had to make to get NBC back? Is this a deal breaker for Apple or will fans just ignore it to get their hands on the pretty new machines? Is this a new opportunity for Linux? And what happened to Jobs not liking DRM?"

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I guess news like this never makes the first page on macrumors eh. :apple:

Hi,
I just registered to MacRumors, but have been reading the forums for quite a while.

I have a few thoughts on buying a new setup but can't figure out which way to go. I'm a high school student, interested in photography. Need a new setup to replace my current pretty tired PC.

My first idea was to get a MBP for my main computer. Great perfomance and its portable if I need it to be. But a 15.4" laptop is too big to carry round to school every day I feel, as we have a Dell D830 in the family.

Then thought about a MB, but the lack of dedicated graphics put me off buying as a main computer. Perhaps a MB for school and Photography work on location and a PC for bigger PS work and occasional gaming? How does Lightroom handle the OS difference?

The ideal solution would obviously be a Mac Pro with MB/MBA, but that costs too much. Even MB with a 24" iMac is out of reach.

Any thoughts?