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Have you recently sent an email from your beloved iPhone and have it delivered - empty? Then when you look at the sent on your phone you get the lovely: “This message has no content”.

For me - it was simple - the problem was my signature. Which constituted of a simple ‘•’. An elevated full-stop, also known as bullet-point.

There appears to be a bug in the iPhone that is as follows:

• If you send an email with a • as the LAST character, your sending bar at the bottom of Mail.app will continually say ‘Sending’, and the email will not even show up in your sent
• If you send an email with words, then • and then some more words - not a problem - it will be delivered

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that upon Unicode conversion upon sending, the email becomes corrupt through a rogue parser.

Quite an oversight on Apple’s behalf, and has only appeared since the 2.0.2 update.

Moral of the story - don’t have a bullet point as the last character in your emails, let alone your signature.

Have you noticed any strangeness in your iPhones behaviour?

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Am soon going away on a little trip, over to Europe, through Tokyo. Wishing to record my trip, as well as have some data for geocoding the photos, I went on a quest to find a GPS unit that allowed me to:

• log data to internal memory
• make sure there’s LOTS of memory
• and lots of battery

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I decided to bring my girlfriends MacBook Air into class - Ola had his Dell XPS m1730.

Brendan decided to take some photos. Enjoy. Sorry for the bad quality - its his crappyN95 to blame Read more »

This morning, Apple announced the much speculated and predicted MacBook Air. An ultra portable laptop that in the price range sits between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro [that's if you're considering the old decrepit PATA drive, instead of the SSD], otherwise it is the most expensive laptop in the MacBook range. Read more »

Am an avid supporter of multi-monitor set-ups. Once you end up using two or more screens - it’s very hard to go back down to one.

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At the moment my set-up consists of:

2x Samsung 940B’s
1x IBM/Lenovo Advanced Mini Dock
1x T60 [ATI Mobility Radeon x1400]

Works quite well, as soon as it’s docked, it recognises the two monitors (one plugged in using VGA, other DVI), and off it goes.

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In Windows™, it’s quite simple - plug in another monitor, and through Display Settings - select where each screen is relatively to the others.

Unfortunately, even in Windows Vista™ - 5th Version of the monolithic, GUI - OS [95,98, 2000,XP, ->Vista), it is has yet to cater for a spanning taskbar, one that would cross all monitors.

That and other shortcomings are fixed by a nice program called UltraMon™. It allows for a multitude of features concerning multiple monitors. One’s that I use:

• the spanning taskbar
• Windows Title Bar

Puts icons near the close button of the window, that allow you to quickly with a click, move the windows to another monitor, or stretch it across all monitors

• Wallpaper

Finally - a tool which looks at setting distinct wallpapers for each screen, that is easy to use, and is persistent across reboots as well as docking/undocking my T60

Now with UltraMon™ 3 Beta - you can finally use it in Vista™.

Several problems though:

• Docking the laptop

Causes multiple taskbars to be rendered on the secondary display

• Freezing whenever some applications are launched - ie. FileZilla

With all these, am still a hapy camper, and absolutely love the app. Just hope they hurry up, and release the final.