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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/01-Dec-08

Comparing Five iPhone File Transfer Apps — Readers recommend other applications for storing desktop files on an iPhone. (6 messages)

How Safari 3.2’s Anti-Phishing Does, and Doesn’t, Work — Readers dig deeper into the new security features in Safari, based on Rich Mogull’s article. (19 messages)

Wireless Access with Laptop Cards — It’s possible to use one wireless card (for connecting to cellular data networks, for example) on multiple computers. (3 messages)

Video card upgrade for MDD? A recommendation about replacing a video card in a Power Mac G4 brings up the question of whether it’s worth throwing money at a G4 machine at this point. (3 messages)

IMAP out of control — After setting up IMAP on multiple machines, a reader finds that attachments are apparently being duplicated. What’s going on? (1 message)

New iPhone Update Works for iPod Touch Too — A reader points out that the iPhone 2.2 software also applies to the iPod touch, and without charging an extra fee. However, the Maps application doesn’t gain the latest enhancements. (7 messages)

New Mouse Pad Is Solid Aluminum — Does a new aluminum mouse pad just make a visual impact, or is it functional as well? (12 messages)

Creating a server backup on a local drive — Readers suggest ways to back up the contents of a server to a local hard disk using Unix commands. (4 messages)

CD and DVD format — For archiving various types of materials, are there preferred disk formats? (3 messages)

Sorting out years worth of files — As the years have passed, a reader’s collection of digital files has migrated from several machines and formats onto ever larger hard disks. The process has also created a lot of duplicates; how best to sort the data without hours of drudgery? (14 messages)

Firefox on Mac does not load GIF link — Some server investigation is necessary to figure out why Firefox wasn’t loading an image that appeared in other browsers. (3 messages)

Safari says “host not found” but Firefox works — Could a proxy setting be responsible for Safari not loading Web sites when Firefox can? (3 messages)

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