FYI - more info about 3rd party apps and Iphone:

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Ginger,

Check your search. There should be an advanced search for hidden files and folders

If I've ever recommended ehostpros to anyone here, I'm sorry. I take it back.

Their hosting is fine, but their domain management is crap. I've been trying - unsuccessfully - to transfer my last few domains from ehostpros to Dreamhost. There's no option anywhere on the domain management access page to unlock a domain, and when I ask tech support about it, the response has been along the lines of "LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU."

I'll break them down eventually, but in the meantime, UGH.

I ended up buying two Titanium flash drives. One 4GB, for general toting of stuff, and one 2GB which is password-protected and therefore Windows only.

I did the U3 technology that lets you take your world with you in your pocket, but am sad that it doesn't extend to the Mac. I did find Portable Firefox which isn't U3, but is nifty in that it comes with an OS X executable and a Windows one that both use the same bookmarks, etc. Close to my dream.

I grabbed a few U3 apps above and beyond what came with the drive--Putty and OpenOffice and Firefox. But I haven't had a chance to explore the world of U3 or other portable apps yet.

But, dammit! Why not have cross-platform password protection? Grr.

eta: Gah! Why am I having a hard time finding mention of cross-platform Portable Firefox? Mine is! I tried it. Weird.

A little article about humans, computers and chess:

In the old days, chess programs went around killing enemy pieces at every opportunity. Their human opponents understood that in chess, like war, other factors often matter more: territorial control, mobility, initiative, reach, coordination, supply lines, impregnability, and safety from decapitation. By trading material for these advantages, the humans won. So, programmers taught the machines to recognize and consider the same factors.

Unable to win with their old tricks, human players learned new ones. They played quirky openings to throw computers off-script. They plotted attacks a dozen moves ahead, beyond the machines' range of calculation. They hunkered down in defenses that to a computer looked impregnable. They cluttered the battlefield with obstructions, making it harder for computers to see threats or payoffs. They left irrelevant pieces on the board to absorb the machines' attention. It was a whole new game layered on top of the old one. The humans named it "anti-computer chess."

Now programmers are adding a third layer: anti-anti-computer chess. They're teaching machines to break old habits, see through clutter, and force the wide-open bloodbaths at which computers excel. In 2003, Deep Junior flummoxed Kasparov with a kamikaze attack unprecedented in computer annals. Last year, when Kramnik forced Deep Fritz off its opening script, the program invented a new variation and went on to win the game.

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The gist of the article is humans and computers, working together, will achieve unprecedented blah blah blah....

I was working on a word attachment I opened from my mac email account. I hit save several times as I was working, and was not prompted to save changes when I closed. I cannot now find the file, and this is something I need for work tomorrow. HELP!

Edit - never mind. Figured it out.

Anne,

What program was it opened in? It might be in "recent" and you can save it somewhere else.

Or

Go to the same email, and pretend you are going to "save as."

Have you any idea what the extension was? If so, you might use search on the hard drive to find any files of that extension modified within the last day.

Daniel, I can't remember exactly how I tracked it down, but when I went into an "open attachments" menu (I think) there was a search box. I typed in the file name, and was able to pull it out of the ether.

I've since saved it to my desktop and have opened it several times to make sure it's really, truly there.

Does anybody use Vonage? I am so pissed at Verizzzon right now I want to dump our land-line service.

I use Vonage and love it. I occasionally get a bit of echo, and I can't call if I'm ahemming at high bandwidth. But other than that, it's been flawless, and it's really nice for my folks in Indianapolis to be able to make a local call to me. It's not so nice for my friends here in Arizona, but as soon as they get local numbers for me here, it'll be fine.

However, they are currently dealing with a load of issues trying to work out their workaround with Verizon's broad VOIP patents, so I might hold off and see what happens with that first.