I really like my QStarz BT-Q1000X. It’s a GPS ‘travel recorder’, and it’s pretty accurate. On the Mac I use third-party (free) software to get the GPX files from the device which I then merge with my photos within Aperture (using Maperture Pro), or when I import using ImageIngester Pro.

I wish things were a bit easier on the computer—most of the time I’m stuck using a Java bomb-site called BT-747 which is not very ‘Mac’ in its interface design. In fact I wish that someone would write some GPX ‘library’ software for the Mac, where you can store loads of GPX files from your travels, and you can then view your routes on maps directly within the application, combine separate GPX files, see everywhere you’ve been at once, and so on. A boy can wish, I suppose. (Any Objective-C developers out there with time on their hands?!)

What bad grammar? I suppose you think it should be ‘think differently’? That is in fact subtly different to the—perfectly correct—‘think different’.

The word ‘differently’ is an adverb, and so modifies the verb, in this case, ‘think’. So, ‘think differently’ would mean ‘think in a manner which is different’.

However, the word ‘different’ is an adjective used here in a substantival (nominal) sense; it doesn’t modify anything. ‘Think different’ thus means ‘think with the result that your thought is different’. You might think that the difference in meaning between ‘think different’ and ‘think differently’ is marginal and, well, you’re probably right. However, Apple’s slogan has always been ‘think different’, and there’s nothing grammatically wrong with that.

Similarly, the dentist should tell you to ‘open wide’, i.e. ‘open such that your mouth is wide-open’. If he says ‘open widely’, well, that makes no sense whatsoever, since nothing can be done ‘widely’ (i.e. ‘in a manner which is wide’).

I have just discovered (for myself) that the built-in OS X archiver can do what you seem to want. Go to /System/Library/CoreServices, and launch Archive Utility. Open its preferences (under the application menu): there’s an option there for after archiving ‘move files to Trash’ or ‘delete files archived’. I imagine that this would now be the default behaviour when you use the ‘Compress…’ command in the Finder’s contextual menu.

But don’t you need things like a social security number and proof of residence in the USA in order to sign up for a plan?

I am travelling in the USA and Canada for over four months, leaving in a couple of weeks. I have a non-locked iPhone (i.e. it was bought unlocked from Apple here in Australia), and had been planning to go on to an AT&T GoPhone SIM, using the $20 for 100MB data option. Can someone here who knows explain if I can do this? Do I need to use some other phone’s IMEI when activating the SIM? After activation, though, does it matter to AT&T that I am using it in my iPhone?

I’d rather have the 3G speeds from AT&T (such as they are). As far as I can tell, there is no prepaid data bundle available on T-Mobile, which stinks.

I discovered this afternoon that the variable-speed scrubbing is also available when you are playing video through a TV (via the Dock connector). It’s not available when watching video on the phone itself, though.

The cable on the upper-right connects the brick to the wall.

More like sixteen Commonwealth Realms (not 32), no? In alphabetical order: Antigua & Barbuda; Australia; the Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Canada; Grenada; Jamaica; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; St Kitts & Nevis; St Lucia; St Vincent & the Grenadines; the Solomon Islands; Tuvalu; and the United Kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm

Can you give details about the T-Mobile SIM and plan you were on? I’ll be travelling to the USA and Canada later this year for several months and was hoping to be able to use a local SIM in my (unlocked) original iPhone, principally for wireless data at a reasonable price all over the country… Obviously I don’t want to (can’t) enter into any monthly contracts.

I’m running Leopard on a MacBook Pro (2.6GHz, 4GB RAM).

I have recently noticed that I have a fairly constant upload of 14–16 KB/s going on in the background (I’m using iSlayer’s iStat menus), even though I haven’t initiated any upload. I’m not now running any online backup apps. I’ve checked in Activity Monitor, and can’t see anything very out of the ordinary there, although evidently I’ve missed something.

Is there an easy way to see which applications/processes are using the network connection? Or should I get Little Snitch? It’s quite annoying to see that the network connection is being used, and being unsure about what is using it. It’s potentially disastrous when I’m using metered connections!

Trouble is, that this is only for websites hosted on .Mac (now MobileMe). It doesn’t mean anything for those of us who might be interested in having the MX records (Mail Exchanger) for our domains point to MobileMe. Yes, we will almost certainly be able to forward email direct from our domains to MobileMe, and then to spoof outgoing email so that it appears to come from an email address on our domains, but that is highly ineffective when it comes to spam filtering.