If you are a MobileMe customer and want to sync your contacts and calendars Over-The-Air (OTA) to your iPhone there’s an easy and a hard way to do it — and the easy way isn’t exactly intuitive or documented very well. This post will explain how to setup up MobileMe the easy way so that you don’t have multiple versions of your contacts and calendars on your iPhone. If you’ve already synced your iPhone to iTunes and checked the boxes for syncing your contacts and calendars, I recommend starting over — which means restoring your iPhone as new

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The proper way to set up MobileMe on an iPhone

If you’re like me — and by all accounts 75 percent of you are — you don’t like glossy screens on your notebooks. The reasons are obvious and have been enumerated on this blog ad nauseum, but suffice it to say, glare. The Queensland University of Technology has published health and safety considerations for Macs with high gloss screens in which they note: Reflections and glare on high gloss monitor screens and their relation to the angle of the monitor screen, could cause the operator to adopt awkward postures when viewing the monitor screen and using related equipment

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Users petition Apple for anti-glare screens

The good Seven bays Plenty of options and features OS X set-up tool The bad ZFS implementation should probably be avoided Cooling system a little loud Design The N7700 is the biggest Thecus unit you can get before you start hitting racks. It can take seven drives and comes in two flavours — the cheaper N7700 which takes SATA drives, and the more expensive N7700 SAS, which as the name suggests, takes SAS drives. All these are hidden away by a magnetically-latched push-door, the seven quick release bays behind are lockable and with status and activity lights

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Review: Thecus N7700

Last night IT won the day in Network Ten’s MasterChef , as Julie Goodwin, who helps her husband run business network support company Loyal I.T. Solutions, was awarded the crown of Australia’s first master chef. Julie Goodwin (Credit: Network Ten) In her role as director of sales and marketing, Julie oversaw quoting and purchasing of hardware and software for the firm.

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Three articles in the July 16 issue of The Economist magazine criticize the economics profession for its failure to anticipate the financial crisis of last September, and the ensuing economic crisis, and for its inability to agree on what should be done to speed recovery. These articles, which can be found at http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14031376&source=hptextfeature http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14030288 , and http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14030296 , are well worth reading.

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Economists Take it on the Chin

BrightHouse the nationwide retail store who specialise in the sale of home electronic and domestic appliances, sofas and other furniture and related products is proud of its relationship with Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity. Brighthouse help the charity make life easier for children with life threatening illnesses, purchase equipment for those children as well as aids for the hospitals and schools that care for them. Over the last three years they have received support from a host of comp

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Brighthouse Help People Beat the Credit Crunch

FromCNN’s Mark Isaacson Rev. Jackson said Sunday that African-American leaders want to engage with the president because there is ‘unfinished business.’WASHINGTON (CNN) – A longtime civil rights leader called Sunday for the nation’s first African-American president to be more engaged with the black community and for greater government action to address the needs of the poor and unemployed — especially those in the African American community.Rev.

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Jackson: Black leaders want to engage more with Obama

The central bank Sunday announced half-yearly monetary policy offering the private sector enough credit for massive investment to help chase a higher growth target and cautioning that the power and gas crisis coupled with infrastructure deficiency might constrain quick economic development.    The policy statement for six months to December forecasts the gross domestic product growth at 6 per cent — higher than budgetary projection of 5.5 per cent — and the average rate of inflation at 6.5 per

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BB offers higher credit to private sector : Projects 6pc GDP, 6.5pc inflation

White, environmentally sound and cool to the touch OLED lights could very well be the future of mundane office environment lighting, but for now they’re just meant to be man handled by four geeks at a table. Still, Office Space comparisons aside, for me the simple dimming of the four-square OLED, and the fact that these lights won’t rape and pillage the environment like those nasty mercury-containing fluorescents we see everywhere today, were cool enough to warrant the wait

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UDC shows ceiling OLED lamp prototype

Banks and building societies have been accused in today’s Mail on Sunday of increasing their profits by keeping mortgage rates high for new borrowers and customers who are reaching the end of special deals.  Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman , said last week that lenders were holding back economic recovery and a revival in the housing market by rebuilding capital reserves rather than cutting mortgage rates. On Friday, consumer group Which? asked the Government to force the pa

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Mortgage lenders have doubled their margins by keeping high rates

Story from the Jerusalem Post via Mark Steyn at the Corner . (H/T ECM) Excerpt: He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.” In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained.

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In Iran, convicted virgins are raped by prison guards prior to being executed

Due to today’s economic unsteadiness across the world, the requirement for the bankruptcy lawyer has become even greater. It is not good to know that your business is going bankrupt for any cause as well blaming the financial economy. Since when you opened your business did you ever consider putting all that extra money away or paying of the loan you took to open it originally, or think that you would ever meet face to face with a bankruptcy attorney at all one day

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Decide On Staying Out Of The Way Of A Bankruptcy Attorney

The blog is rather pleased with the performance of its new Boom/Gloom Index©, as financial markets continue to respond positively to any suggestion of “good news”. The Index is based on Ben Graham’s famous concept that markets are: • A voting machine in the short-term but • A weighing machine in the long-term It is therefore meant to identify whether positive or negative sentiment is driving short-term performance. And clearly, market sentiment is indeed still remarkably positive, in spite of the fact that there is no sign of any real improvement in the underlying fundamental position.

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US housing starts rise 3.6%

In a speech last week , Larry Summers said: Without comprehensive healthcare reform, there is little prospect of convincing markets that the long-term growth in Federal debt is under control or of convincing businesses that the United States is the most competitive place for them to invest. This statement, while seemingly sensible to some laymen, is actually inconsistent with standard economic analysis, such as that offered by the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO tells us that the healthcare bills being considered in Congress will increase rather than decrease health spending and so will hardly assure markets the Federal debt is under control

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Summers on Health Economics

Though a Christian, I’m not a subscriber to the view that new diseases, when they first make an appearance on the world stage, are scourges sent by the Almighty as a punishment for our manifold sins. Disease affects the ‘innocent’ just as much as the ‘guilty’; and it would be crass to think, as some defenders and detractors of Christianity alike appear to, that the Christian view is that all suffering represents some sort of direct chastisement for one’s personal sins – even though it may be reg

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Swine flu: the scourge for our times

I own a small business and when the economy took a turn for the worse, I was forced to layoff my employees.  I did not want to get in a situation where I could not pay them because that would be extremely unfair.  And the idea of giving them IOUs seemed ludicrous.  That was over a year ago and the economy has actually become worse. Now, I thought about this because this happens to big companies that file for bankruptcy without warning and close shop literally the next day.  Seems like that is

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Will the Obama administration allow states to go bankrupt?

Nearly 30 percent of home sellers in North Texas have been slashing their foreclosure listing prices and other pre-owned listing prices in efforts to cut down their sales inventories, according to analysts who studied real estate sales in the region these past months. In the Dallas area, sellers have been cutting … short sale foreclosure The number of homes on REO property listing in Silicon Valley, California is starting to pick up again as banks resumed their activity of selling

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Swiss banks running out of storage space for gold bullion Lawrence Williams, MineWeb, Jul 17 2009 In a note entitled No more space for Gold Bars, Swiss news website 20 Minuten Online reports that Swiss banks are running out of secure storage space for gold bullion held by investors and institutions. Fears of hyperinflation, the economic downturn and the success of gold index funds (ETFs), which are supported by physical gold, has led to a run on precious metals investment, gold in particula

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Simple Thoughts Japanese police were investigating possible negligence by tour organizers after 10 senior citizen climbers were found dead Friday in Japan’s northern mountains, apparently from hypothermia. Nine seniors died while climbing Mount Tomuraushi on Hokkaido, Japan’s main northern island, said police spokesman Masafumi Yamasaki

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Police investigating tour company after 10 elderly climbers die on Japanese mountains

ReutersRPT-CIT in talks with bondholders as bankruptcy loomsReutersNEW YORK, July 18 (Reuters) – CIT Group Inc (CIT.N) was in talks with a bondholder group on Saturday, as the lender tried to hammer out a rescue financing deal before markets opened and avoid bankruptcy, a source close to the …CIT Group’s Banks Said to Weigh Bankruptcy FinancingBloombergCIT talks to bondholders; bankruptcy still fearedWashington PostCIT Fate In Balance; Shares, Short-Dated Bonds UpCNNMoney.comRTT News -The Asso

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(Bloomberg) — Greenlight Capital Inc., the $5 billion hedge-fund firm run by David Einhorn, told investors it switched all of its holdings in a gold exchange-traded fund into bullion during the second quarter. “At a minimum this will provide some savings as the costs of storing gold are less than the fees” for the SPDR Gold Trust, the New York-based firm said yesterday in a letter to investors. Einhorn, 40, told clients in January he was buying gold for the first time amid the threat of infl

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David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital Funds switches Largest holding from GLD ETF to Gold Bullion

Author : Marc Choyt The most useful business book I have come across since Jim Collins’ “Good to Great” is “Blue Ocean Strategy”, by W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne Blue Ocean strategy is about breaking through structures that primarily exist in how you perceive your company and the market The strategy helps you to see new opportunities Once you see them, you have access to a world without competition It is analogous to jumping through a cubic centimeter of opportunity to find an entirely

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Blue Ocean Strategy For Responsible Sourced Jewelry

North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan speaks of the need for a clean energy, low carbon future, but fears cap and trade schemes such as that proposed in the Waxman-Markey bill aren’t the solution, in large part due to interference from the likes of trading firms such as Goldman Sachs creating financial derivatives and the resultant speculative trading that would hijack the intent and purpose of cap and trade. As an example, Dorgan highlights the extreme price fluctuations of oil in 2008, showi

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Senator Byron Dorgan on Cap and Trade, Clean Energy, and Climate Change

A web based email marketing software is a highly useful tool that significantly contributes to the management of email promotional campaigns regardless of the size of the business. The necessity of using such programs appeared because of the growing number of contacts in the mailing lists, and when there are some thousands of people that you need to send emails to, a manual computer user is definitely overwhelmed. Hence, a web based internet email marketing software creates and deliv

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Internet Marketing Software: Web Based Email Marketing Tool

For the last few years, whenever housing starts increased, I wrote that was bad news because there was already too much inventory. Now, even though there is still too much existing home inventory, and too much new home inventory in some areas, it appears that new home sales have stabilized. Since single family housing starts (built for sale) have been below new home sales for six consecutive quarters (through Q1), this suggests single family housing starts should also bottom soon.

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Housing Starts: A Little Bit of Good News