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Just a quick one, I was having a problem where Mail on Leopard was running very very slow. For instance, when typing an email, the text would show up 5 seconds after I had typed it. Anyways, to fix this issue:

http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/

My mail sql db only went down a few meg, but the speed is phenomenal, running as fast as when it was first installed.

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Disable Gmail Spam Filtering

If you are a regular user of both Gmail and a desktop email client, then no doubt you have run (even if you have not realised) into the issue of Gmail catching legitimate email as spam.  While this isn’t such a big deal if you are using the web interface, it is a nightmare for users of email clients such as Mail or Outlook – where your junk folder is not normally visible.  With the release of Google Apps for businesses, this can become a very very bad thing, when suddenly you start missing critical emails.  Whats worse, is that Google doesn’t provide an option to disable spam filtering, even for Google Apps.  However, there is a work-around, and while quite silly, its easy as to implement.

• Log into the web interface on Gmail / Google Apps Email
• Click settings in the top right hand corner
• Click the Filters tab in the settings
• Create a new filter
• In the “Has the words” field, enter “is:spam” (without quotations) and click next step
• Ignore the ridiculous and untrue popup message
• Check “Never send to spam”
• You should now see that in your filters if a message is tagged with “is:spam”, then it is never sent to the junk folder

And its done – completely silly, but it works.  Now you will never miss an email again (even those hundreds of Viagra ads, so be warned).  The only big pain with this is if you are hosting a lot of Google Apps users, you need each user to manually do this, rather than having it system wide.

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Apple iPhone * 4?

Jason at ZDNet has just released a rumor discussing the possibility of the next iPhone containing a 4 core processor.  While he does talk about pure processing power, there real benefit would be the much better ability to perform and support multitasking .  Essentially, this would mean developers (including Apple themselves) would have much more power to perform functions apart from the application running at the time.  Essentially, this implementation would greatly improve the chances of getting copy/paste, quick switching, and most importantly services/applications/notifications running in the background.  Initially it would seem to be purely about processing power, but it would allow the architecture to better support features iPhone fan-boys have been ranting about since its first release.

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Another Macworld, and another disappointment.  But while the keynote did not deliver (wheres my Mac Mini?), and another year of the iLife/iWork Apple tax, there were a few things announced that deserve some recognition, including a Mac Tablet, iPhone organisation for professionals, and TV streaming direct to your iPhone.  Here are some breakdowns of the devices:

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Welcome to Simultech.net again. This is my first post since Wordpress decided that I no longer needed my blog content. However, looking at the glass half full, its a good chance to start some serious blogging, so I’m insistant this time that I will stick with blogging and keep up to date.  I have also installed a plugin to integrate the blog with Twitter, so anyone following me on Twitter may prepare for spam.

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