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Open Links from Apple Mail in the Background

If an email message in Mail includes a Web link which you'd prefer to check out after you've read all your mail, and you don't want to hunt for the link later, Command-click the link in the message to open a browser window in the background. Mail remains the foreground application, and the browser window can wait till you're ready.

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Andy Ihnatko Abuses Cell Phones on National TV

Our buddy Andy Ihnatko, who most of you probably know from his writing in Macworld or the Chicago Sun-Times, is breaking into TV. On last week's CBS Early Saturday show he explains, in his inimitable style, the best (and worst) ways of drying out cell phones (and by extension, iPods and iPhones) that suffer a dunking in a puddle, sink, or worse. Who knew that kitty litter worked well for bringing sodden electronics back to life?

 

THE MISSING SYNC FOR iPHONE: Sync notes, tasks, files and
documents between your iPhone or iPod touch and a Mac. The
Missing Sync for iPhone provides two-way syncing over Wi-Fi.
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