Everyone and their brother, me included, has been wondering if turn-by-turn GPS navigation is coming to the iPhone. What NO ONE has said (out loud, at least) is the word, “TeleNav.”  Kinda makes you wonder why…

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BlackBerry MediaSync for iTunes made a brief appearance on the official RIM servers last night before apparently being pulled from general availability. The software reportedly allows for all your iTunes music (including album artwork and playlists) to be transferred and played on your Blackberry. No word on when this will make (another) official appearance.

Link: BerryReview via Crackberry

When it rains it pours. I feel like the Morton Salt girl…

If you remember, a week or so ago, I posted a huge rant on how Microsoft released buggy and problematic SP’s in both Vista SP1 and XP SP3. There have been a lot of people bumping into operational problems with corrupted Registries, corrupted files, and endless reboot loops. I can’t help but shake my head when crap like this happens.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that I have NOT installed the 10.5.3 Update yet. I’m actually a little nervous about it.  I have a 5G iPod and don’t want to kill iTunes with this update.  I’ll wait a bit more and see if there are some fixes coming for the problems that have been reported. I don’t want to jeopardize my ability to download and listen to PodCasts. My 2 hour round trip commute on the train would become unbearable without my iPod and my PodCast fix…

I also wanted to let everyone know that (if memory serves correctly) I saw postings about this on ComputerWorld and Extreme Tech as well as Mac FixIt.  The penetration of these issues may not be HUGE, but they have gotten a little bit of press beyond Mac FixIt.

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Like many people who have made the switch from a PC to a Mac, Joel Evans has learned how to manage a work-around or two. I read with some interest an article which he forwarded me this morning, because it details some of the frustrations I was experiencing when syncing my iPhone to Entourage. I was becoming increasingly frustrated because events that I’d enter into the iPhone would not transfer back to my MacBook, which was causing me to miss appointments (totally not cool!). It eventually got so bad that when I stopped using my Exchange account, I also abandoned Entourage and went to iCal, the native Mac calendar application. Looks like I wasn’t the only one…

Out of the box the iPhone is supposed to sync effortlessly with Entourage. While that’s the claim, in the past I’ve had more than my share of issues. Sometimes the syncing just doesn’t work, other times it syncs from the iPhone to Entourage but not back again. I’ve tried a number of “fixes” in the past and a couple of months ago I couldn’t take the strange behavior anymore so I moved to just iCal and left Entourage out of the equation.

I have been thinking about getting another Hosted Exchange account because I am about to start using a Windows Mobile device again, but the idea of how I would move all of my data back to Entourage was proving rather daunting; I didn’t see an easy way to do it. Luckily Joel also reached that point slightly ahead of me…

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Here’s a pretty good deal just in time for the high school and college graduation season. The Circuit City web site has iTunes gift cards in $25 denominations on sale for $ 20. Free shipping on orders over $25 so you may want to get two and score free shipping. These make great graduation gifts. Head over to their web site before they sell out.

Link: Circuit City - $ 25 iTunes Gift Card for $ 20 via Fatwallet

Looks like iTunes is feeling generous tonight. An eagle eyed poster on the SlickDeals forum just noticed that the Hitman movie is available on iTunes — for Free. In order to take advantage you must follow these specific instructions.

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