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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/30-Jul-07

Sites with info for new Mac users — Following last week’s mention of the MyFirstMac site, we receive other recommendations. (3 messages)

Personal Finance Program with Shared Database — Are there any finance programs for the Mac that allow two people to make separate entries on different computers, but access all the same data? (1 message)

Recovering data from single density floppy disks? Dig back into your Mac memory to find out how to read data from old 400K floppy disks. (20 messages)

Cell Phone Prepaid Plans — Last week’s article on prepaid cellular plans raises a variety of questions from readers. (8 messages)

Rumour Site “MacOSRumors” Off The Air? A Mac rumor site has gone dark. We’ll all adapt somehow, or at least that’s the rumor. (7 messages)

Multiple mailboxes on the iPhone — The iPhone’s Mail program supports multiple folders, but they must be created on the Mac first, apparently. (9 messages)

Writing software for novelists — A novelist gives high marks to Scrivener, a program designed specifically for the needs of serious fiction writers. (3 messages)

Palm Software — What’s the best approach to synchronizing an old Treo with a modern Mac? (7 messages)

Actual iPhone sales and activations — Although Apple claimed 270,000 iPhones sold within the third fiscal quarter of 2007, how were those numbers calculated? (2 messages)

iPhone Features & Software — A reader looking to replace his Treo 650 with an iPhone seeks advice on replacement software and tasks, too. What’s available for the iPhone now? (7 messages)

iPhone batteries v. laptop batteries — Will iPhone batteries withstand charging cycles better than laptop batteries, and if so, why? (1 message)

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