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Like many of you, I have a tumultuous relationship with email. I get a couple of thousand emails per week - that's how many I get that I don't consider spam, but it does include marketing emails that I perceive as permitted - iTunes Classical Music Spotlight or Sports Boosters Event notices. (We use and recommend Red Condor for AntiSpam.)

Saw this at Business Insider

A former Microsoft employee, Dick Brass, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times where he called Microsoft a "clumsy, uncompetitive innovator". He laments that Microsoft has lost its way and gives several examples of how.

Here is a very innovative Desktop replacement and management tool for Mac users. (There is a Windows version too.) I'm going to give it a try and I'll let you know how well it works.

I usually hide my desktop because it gets messy. Maybe this will help.
See a demo video on Interversant TV, then give the download a try from BumpTop.

Verizon might have the new Droid, but if you want it, you'll have to agree to a two contract (that's pretty normal) but they are doubling the Early Termination Fee for smartphone users from $175 to $300.

And being into the contract 18 months, only shaves $180 off of that fee. So at the end of your contract, you can't terminate without paying an extra $60.

How do they get away with that?

In a ruling issued on November 13th, a judge ruled in Apple's favor that Psystar infringed on Apple's copyrights in order to install OS X on unauthorized non-Apple computers.

Verizon has been running some great ads lately comparing their 3G coverage to ATT's. (I especially like the one where they say the iPhone belongs on the Island of Misfit Toys).

The truth is though, that 3G does not necessarily equal 3G. What Verizon calls 3G is really only a little better than what ATT calls EDGE. And what ATT calls 3G is way faster than Verizon 3G.

So wherever Verizon says they have 3G, they mean they have EDGE+. But wherever ATT has 3G, Verizon still only has EDGE+.

To date, I have downloaded 150 different apps for my iPhone. Most of them were free. Some were: "That could be cool, for $1 I'll try it." Of those, only 40 or so are still on my phone.

Even so, thats a bunch of icons to manage by dragging them around on the phone.

Apple came to the rescue with iTunes 9. They have made big improvements to the sync engine in iTunes, and one of those improvements is the ability to control where your icons are on your phone.

Everybody has heard of Window's Blue Screen of Death. Few know what the Mac equiavlent of that is. Technically, it is called a Kernel Panic and it crashes your system hard.