OS X’s Address Book only allows adding AIM, Jabber, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo IM addresses to contacts. This has been a known issue (Apple bug #4270469) for quite a while, and there is no indication of it getting fixed anytime soon.
You can work around this by adding an URL field to your contact template in [...]

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BSD subsystem 2.1 (and I think 2.0 too) for iPhone has a broken “su” binary. This is especially annoying, since the default user is now “mobile” and if you try to change to root using MobileTerminal, you get:
$ su
dyld: Library not loaded: libarmfp.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/bin/su
Reason: unsafe use of relative path libarmfp.dylib [...]

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It appears that when using an iPhone with one of the Slovenian carriers, namely Si.mobil Vodafone, incoming calls don’t work. Incoming calls work just fine with another carrier, Mobitel.
I have unlocked my iPhone using the free/open SW method, but I believe the same behavior was observed with HW-unlocked phones in Slovenia too.
Si.mobil is aware of [...]

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I was looking for a way to export photos from an album in iPhoto that would name the files numerically, like 0.jpg, 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. This would make it possible for others to easily view them in, say, Windows Explorer, in the order I intended.
After almost giving up, my last attempt was trying to export [...]

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