for AT&T phones, you can get a more accurate numerical indicator of the iPhone’s current signal strength by manually dialing *3001#12345#* followed by a tap of the Call button. This brings up Field Test mode. The signal strength bars in the upper left are replaced by a negative number. The less negative the number, the better your signal strength. For a reasonably reliable signal, the number should be less negative than -100. Ideal strength would be somewhere around -50.

No one was willing to go on record but some OEMs did at least admit to seeing a ~20% difference between battery life in OS X and Vista.

You bet!

well, this is why Windows makes a REAL computer — just look at all these options I have!” There’s no question that Address Book and iCal do only 10% of what Outlook can do, but somehow that 10% is 80% of what I need. It is hard to make a simple interface for an application that does a lot of stuff

In other words, when you try to sell your product or service to everyone, instead of a niche target market, then these gazillion features are needed to attract them all.

This is a no brainer.

The new policy applies to out-of-warranty incidents that would normally require the purchase of a new phone, and also trigger an extention of the owner’s two-year AT&T contract. Under the new policy, the iPhone owner simply pays a one-time $199 price for a refurbished handset, and transfers the SIM card to the new device.

Good news (too-late news) for many of my slippery-fingers friends.

but getting someone to install something evil on their system is a fault with the human brain, not their operating system of choice.

If you follow Apple regularly, you’ll know that the company often runs down its competitors in a category before introducing its own game-changing product in that category.

When Apple upgrades iTunes, the previous version of the library is backed up in a folder called "Previous iTunes Libraries,