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I wonder if your reply to my question here is among the missing? I really am anticipating some response from the Triad on this important issue.

Agree with Joe; I tag the location I'm referring to, rather than where I'm posting from. Hell, I didn't even think of doing the latter. Nils, "Web 2.0" is located on Planet Cyberspace; you know GPS coordinates only apply to Planet Earth, right? ;-)

I like the way the Geo Mashup plugin lets you display posts on the map by category; it's sort of like a "physical tag cloud". Say someone reads your travel post on New Zealand, and they want to see if there are any more relating to a particular region of NZ they're interested in visiting. Well, by passing the data in the URL to your map you can "zoom in" on a particular country or region, and at the same time a particular category (travel articles, as opposed to short stories involving sheep, for example). Much more visual than having them troll thru your category archive list. I think this is pretty cool. Try out the key below my map which lets you change focus with a click.

RightOn, I understood they weren't synonyms but I'm not 100% clear if you can unlock it without also jail-breaking it. A 16GB iPhone costs the same as a 32GB iPod touch to buy (about $US640 equivalent in the UK), but the cheapest plan on O2 in the UK is around $US70 per month and their coverage is inferior where I live; I want to converge my devices (phone, Palm, iPod) but not at that cost.

Jail-breaking seems an unnecessary risk with the SDK just around the corner. If I bought an iPhone and unlocked it, and I right in saying that I couldn't apply any subsequent Apple firmware? Or if so, the iPhone would re-lock? My limited understanding is that unlocking your own phone is not illegal in the UK; I accept that doing so would void the Apple warranty but I wouldn't be breaching the contract with O2 if I never activated the phone on their network/ signed up for an O2 contract.

I'm not convinced about the PDA side being "spot on" Ron, at least not compared to my own Palm experience. As I reflect here, the lack of tasks/ to-do lists with priorities/ due dates and sync which is a critical PDA function; so are notes that sync. 1Password has the secure data side covered; everything else is icing. But Apple shouldn't be counting on 3rd-party developers to fill in these gaps.

The impact of the SDK will be interesting. No only may it address such basic shortcomings, but if I go for a touch cf. iPhone I may be foregoing much more in the medium term e.g. voice memos and VOIP (iTouch: no mic) and connecting to my GPS for geocaching/ navigation or to a projected laser keyboard (iTouch: no BT). The SDK could very well turn the few differences (i.e. phone functions) btw the iPhone and iTouch into a gulf. True, iTouch 2 may add a mic, BT, but I suspect not so as to avoid lost iPhone sales.

Related Q: Can you unlock an iPhone without jail-breaking it? I believe the terms are not synonymous.

Thanks Ron esp. for the "real world" observation on the speaker's usefulness (or otherwise).

I'm not a big Flickr user (heck, I'd not even noticed I had a "Popular" page, so thanks for that!). Here's my #1:

Kiwis are ordinarily strictly nocturnal. In April '07 on Kapiti Island (about 45 min north of Wellington, New Zealand's capital) we were lucky enough to see by day Apteryx owenii, the Little Spotted Kiwi—the rarest type (only about 1600 are left nationwide). A ranger suggested our little fellow might be a bit stupid (we'd suggested insomniac) and didn't fancy his chances of escaping being "fluffed up" by an aggressive weka (another flightless native bird).

Craig Potton does great New Zealand landscapes. I've bought a number of his posters, postcards and books over the years.

OmniGraffle is my favourite; I wrote a mini-rave a couple of years ago.

I use if for making graphics for my site, laying out my CV, mind-mapping ideas, flow charts (using my own home-rolled stencil).

Hello from neighbouring Chesterfield! Great shot and yes, surprise there's so much snow as it's not be that cold recently (just wet, as usual). Must get out into the Peaks with my camera and try and capture some of that winter scenery myself.

This is not a great photo but it was my last trip out:

Taken along Chesterfield canal last weekend. Hadn't come across coarse fishing before; the rods are very long, reaching to the far bank. They looked awkward to handle.

What I really want to know is that when I switch to Leopard I will not run into any of the trouble that popped up back in October.

I've upgraded two machines (a Mini and a MacBook), one as clean install and migrating user docs etc manually, the other with the preserve users option enabled. I had no issues with either upgrade.

Has there been significant system updates?

10.5.1 + security updates.

Will my files switch over correctly (I am going from tiger to leopard)?

Your documents should be unaffected by the upgrade, if you preserve them/ use the migration assistant/ or restore them from your backup. Most apps are Leopard compatible; if there is a problem it's usually cosmetic. I made a list of what was in my Applications folder prior to the upgrade and researched application compatibility. It might be reassuring for you to do the same e.g. check your printer driver is 10.5 savvy.

Not sure you've given us enough information to answer than once: what are you 'switching' from? You've presumably checked that your system meets the requirements for installation and consent to the price being charged, so who would want to screw you over what? Perhaps you have a specific concern e.g. "Will Leopard force me to buy a paid upgrade from MIssing Sync for Palm version 5"?

In answer to my own question, just watched the Leopard Guided Tour which says tasks (to-dos) are sync'd btw Mail and iCal. Cool.

using the notes and to-do's in Mac Mail 3.0

So you're telling us you're running Leopard then, huh? Tiger Mail is 2.1.1 and the only "notes" are attached to events or tasks in iCal.

iCal is said to be getting a re-write in 10.5, and it's perhaps the thing I'm most interested in (I depend on it, and sync to Palm). So what are your impressions of iCal in Leopard then? Tasks are removed, right, now managed via Mail?

That's handy Darice, thanks. I've added that to my Safari bookmarks bar.

I also added a 16px 9rules logo to my bookmarking options just under each post title (on single entry pages), so head on over to bioneural.net and Clip something!