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In addition to introductory guide sull’iPhone 3G (also available in English), Apple has made available a guide optimized for iPhone from always carry, saving between bookmark favorites. The guide offers useful support, as well as the approach of smartphones, also for Mail, Safari, iPod, Applications, Setting, Music Store and generic recommendations for problems that might occur during the use of the device.

The only question that remains regards the section on Starbucks on pages that will appear in countries (like ours) where the service is not available. Maybe, you simply removed the option of choice outside of the United States.

Time Machine is filled with a new feature, as soon arrive l ‘10.5.3 update Leopard. This is reported by developers in possession of the recent release preliminary for next update.

The new configuration option for Time Machine allows, in the case of portable battery-powered, to carry out equally, in an automatic way, any backup expected. With the current version 10.5.2 of Leopard, if you start a backup and, in the meantime, you disconnect the seizure of power, Time Machine suspend the operation until the energy network should become available.

In intentions, this possibility configuration will allow the system to store data, we are working on a continuous, without which there may be periods during which our data are not safe.

Time remains to be seen what will be some time before it can update our copies of Mac OS X with the new release.

Mark Hoekstra of Geek Technique wrote an interesting post that shows how you can use the ‘iPhone as a web server in stock, using the port lighttpd for smartphone of Cupertino. For those who do not know him, lighttpd is an Open Source web server that can run on machines that do not allow a high speed of execution, ensuring good performance.

Mark has used the iPhone during a maintenance to its web servers, configuring Lighttpd to show a static page containing some information about the current state of the site.

Within three hours this mini-server has served this page to 411 unique visitors, not bad for a device which was not at all designed for this use.

iPhone is also able to run the Apache Web server, but lighttpd in these conditions is a software that guarantees improved performance, needing less resources.