Thanks chasm, I didn't know you could do that. I figured in order to actvate the ipad I would need the data plan. I already have wifi in my house which is where I would use it most. I'm not familiar with the mifi but I will check that out too. Thanks again for the reply.

You don't have to pay $30/month. Just use Wifi instead (and save $130 by getting the wifi-only model).

Or get a MiFi or some future device along those lines. Or use the 3G capability more selectively and pay the $30 for only those months in which you actually need it -- there's no contract obligation in the US.

Well I was going to get one but I'm not wiling to pay another $30 a month. That's disappointing, but I kinda figured that would be the case.

According to Steve, yes.

However, Steve's answer ignores options such as the MiFi box (or something like it) which turns cellular data into wifi data, thus allowing sharing of one data source with multiple devices.

I would imagine that other developers would come up with some other ways to defeat that limitation as well, like a simpler version of the Mifi that attaches to the universal dock connector.

Won't happen right away, of course, but I'd expect something like that to evolve.

If you already have a data plan for a iPhone will you have to purchase an additional data plan for the iPad?

My battery runs out in about 1 hour of playing games and using the Internet

If by DSN you mean DNS, then for some reason your router isn't getting a DNS server from your ISP. You might try manually plugging in some generic DNS like 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 and see if that helps you there, like so:

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If you want a bit more flexibility you can try opening a free OpenDNS account and configure your router and/or Mac to use that.

It shouldn't take literally ten minutes to turn your phone back on after a dead battery. Am I not understanding the situation correctly? You are talking about when your battery becomes so drained your phone switches off and shows the low battery symbol right?

If I plug it in, it takes 10 minutes. If I am phoning via Skype, I want to go on immediatly after plugging in!

For a whole my mac has been really slow. Even when typing, the letters took seconds to appear. Then, last night, I couldn't get on the Internet. I have a Time Capsul. It was showing the green light but no Internet. I restarted it. Then I got a message- something like: "this apple wireless devise doesn't have a DSN address. It may have trouble connecting to the Internet." I'm a bit clueless about this stuff. How do I find out what my DSN address is? And how did I lose it to begin with?!

So restarting didn't help as mentioned previously?

It's stuck on a webpage and it won't move!

You have to plug it in and wait a few seconds for it to charge just a little before it'll turn back on.

Is there a trick to switch on iPod when it's on low battery?

Quoting lbdyck:

Broke yet again

If anybody around here has any idea what is going on I'm sure they'll post.

Why don't you try using one of the other methods to connect to Gmail besides Exchange and see if it turns out to be more reliable? It sounds like an issue with Gmail's services combined with Exchange, or possibly something to do with having both a Google app installed and Google setup using iPhone's Exchange services.

Broke yet again

It finally worked. But for how long until it breaks again?

I have it setup using the exchange interface so that calendar and contacts sync as well.

I haven't used Gmail on my iPhone but are you doing it via IMAP or POP? You might want to try the protocol opposite of the one you're using.

I'm getting Gmail just fine in Mail.app on my desktop Mac, which is fundamentally similar to the iPhone version.

Is there a way without jail breaking to get more/longer notifications for missed SMS/text messages and missed phone calls?

This is critical for those who are oncall as part of our job.

I tried the gmail all mail folder and got a message that it could not connect to the server.

Is there a site to check status of things like that?

I can't force it but it hasn't worked for the last hour. I've turned off the iPhone and restarted it without success.

I'm not sure what could cause that. You say, it's working sometimes but sometimes it's not?

Is there no way for you to repeat this failure reliably?

If I'm trying to send mail I am td it could not but there is no noticeable indication when receiving other than no new mail yet going to the GMail app I can send and receive new mail.

What are the symptoms of these failures? Does it give you some kind of error message?

Frequently my email sync with GMail using the standard mail app to m.google.com will fail while using the GMail app works fine.

What is up with the exchange connection?

I mean if I had to guess, you probably damaged some internal part of your iPhone. What you describe really can't be explained any other way, especially if your wife's iPhone works fine in the same exact place.

Hi
I have been having this problem where my wifi drops out when it is not full strength.
It works when I am close to the router but once I walk away and it drops a bar on the wifi signal it drops out.
My wife's iPhone still works fine and mine also worked fine for the past 15 months.
I have changed the rear panel on my phone because it was cracked. I have tried to reset network settings. I have tried a dull restore. I have tried jailbreaking. I have tried everything.
Does anyone else know what I can do.
Cheers

If you copied a library with the exact same name to the exact same place I don't think it would do that. It never didn't work for me.

The only thing I'm going to add to Turbladdade's brilliant answer is that on that last step ("After it's done, launch iTunes") if you'll do that holding the Option key down you will get a dialog asking you to either create a new library or pick an existing one. Do the latter and point it to your freshly-copied library. This will help prevent the possibility of iTunes not initially "seeing" the new library and creating a blank one instead.

If your other Mac has FireWire, connect the two while your old one is off. Then, start the old one and immediately hold down T until you see a bouncing FireWire icon on the screen. It is then basically in an external hard drive mode, and you can access it on the new Mac as such.

On your new Mac, make sure iTunes isn't running, and browse to your user's Music folder. It'll be in Home -> Music. Inside the music folder will be a folder named iTunes. Rename this folder iTunes Backup (or something equivalent). Then, navigate the contents of your old Mac's hard drive until you come upon your old iTunes music folder. It'll be in Users -> username -> Music. Drag it into the same Music folder on your new Mac, and wait for the copy to finish. After it's done, launch iTunes to verify success. iTunes might ask your permission to upgrade your "old" iTunes music folder to this new version of iTunes.

Of course, if your old computer is a PC, then everything I just typed is useless. Let us know how that works out for you.

I have a Firewire but not quite sure how that would work. Not really the most tech savvy.

Well, yes there are tools to do that, however the easiest would be to copy your iTunes library directly from your old Mac or PC to your new Mac over a network connection. Is this not an option for you?

I have a new MacBook coming and was wondering if it was possible to put everything on my iPod onto my new iTunes.

Basically yes.

You're saying, you called SIRIUS and they told you they can't help you with their own app?

I have the premium online app.

Looks like SIRIUS XM Radio Inc has two apps on the app store - XM SkyDock and SIRIUS XM Premium Online. Which app are you talking about? Or is it not one of these?

Hello.

Is anyone else having horrific trouble with the Sirius/xm app on their iPhone? I have called xm 10 times and they are now telling me it's a problem with the app not the service from them. Is there a work around or a fix or something that can be done to fix this issue.

Basically I get kicked out every 15 minutes telling me to contact customer support and then have to log back in only to be told that a premium subscription is required to access this app. I've had a sub since the day the app was released.

Can any one help?

Thank you!!!

Well, what you described seems odd but each person has their own workflow. I can't think of any reason Mac OS would rearrange your desktop icons if you don't have the auto-arrange option enabled. If you go to View -> Show View Options, I usually keep this setting to "Snap to Grid" so that icons conform to clean rows and columns, but the other settings would have the effect you described. That being said, they would have effect immediately and you would never be able to arrange the icons in the first place with for example "Arrange by Name" turned on.

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Perhaps your computer is somehow losing the icon arrangement every time you restart? First thing to try (in any problem really) is repair permissions and restart.

Hi Info-Mac,

Just a brief question.
I have an iMac (dual core, 24 inches... OS 10.6.2)
Everything is fine except a small but very annoying problem.

I use the "desktop" much.
Since the display is vast, I organize my current icons by "regions".
To the left side for this, at the top for that, near the trash can for likely "trashable" documents... etc.

Everything is OK until I restart my computer.
Then all my icons go to the right side of the monitor, like windows does on the left side.
It disorganize my arrangement.
I have looked at all the prefs and settings.
Searched everywhere (almost) for a solution to this...
It seems that there is no way to prevent this.
What am I missing???
Thank you very much.

Normand

Quoting Wernicke:

Can I do the upgrade with the disc?

It's been awhile since I've installed Leopard on anything, but I believe the installer checks for the presence of an 867mhz or higher G4 processor and fails without it. Not sure if it's tied to the "original" processor or if it'll install fine with your new 1.6ghz processors. Why don't you try and let us know how that goes?

Can I do the upgrade with the disc?

Quoting Wernicke:

I have an older ppc with upgraded processor (original 440mhz). I am running 10.4 still and would like to upgrade to leopard. Can I do this and if so are there any issues I should be aware of?

If it's an AGP model then yes, you can install Leopard by connecting it to another Mac via FireWire target disk mode, booting the other Mac with the Leopard installer and installing onto the "external" hard drive that is your G4.

I have an older ppc with upgraded processor (original 440mhz). I am running 10.4 still and would like to upgrade to leopard. Can I do this and if so are there any issues I should be aware of?

Thx.

Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,4
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (0.0)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 1.6 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.25 GB

"sync" does not mean "move and delete," so no, syncing does not necessarily take songs off your phone. What you want to do is check in iTunes regarding what you have set to sync TO the iPhone. iTunes (on your computer) controls what songs are put on your iPhone, but you have to tell it what (playlists, artists, albums, songs etc) you want on there, since space is limited compared to your computer.

Depending on what playlists you have set to sync with your iPhone, yes I imagine it could. Not 100% sure on that though, never noticed such a problem myself.

I bought some songs off of iTunes through my iPhone 3G, synced it with my computer, now I have the songs on my computer and not on my iPhone. does syncing take the songs off my phone? I though it was just copying them? Advice?

I've had good results with this program: http://stuporglue.org/tako/

My problem with the open-source OCR software for Unix (and thus, Mac OS X too) is that while they work, they take a lot of fiddling, and I don't have time for that at the moment.

I just created a sample image to try out Google's online OCR thing. It sort of works, but there were more errors than I was expecting. A lot of drpped lettrs from wrds.