T-Mobile forced to take action amid Sprint
takeover rumors

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Amid rumors that Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's parent company, is considering a takeover bid for the ...

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Sakar launches line of Kodak Webcams, digital
photo keychain

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 15 September 2009 11:30:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Sakar International has launched a new line of Kodak webcams, which includes a driver-free webcam, t...

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MacSpeech Dictate debuts new International
version

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MacSpeech has launched a new international version of its speech recognition software, with new loca...

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MS readying 250GB Xbox 360 for Modern Warfare 2

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Game developer Infinity Ward tonight ended up confirming Microsoft's plans for a 250GB Xbox 360 Elit...

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QuickBooks update adds Snow Leopard support, bug
fixes

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Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2009 for Mac R8.2 patch, adding Snow Leopard support to the small...

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Android 1.6 to ship on devices as early as
October

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Google has announced that the upcoming Android 1.6 OS update is expected to ship on devices as early...

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Vuzix Wrap 310 video eyewear resembles sunglasses

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Vuzix has announced the Wrap 310, its latest video eyewear device. The Wrap series integrates many o...

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How to Unlock iPhone 3G OS 3.1 With UltraSn0w

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These are instructions on how to software unlock the iPhone 3GS with OS 3.0 for use with any GSM cell phone carrier. Before you can follow these instructions you must have a jailbroken iPhone if you haven?t jailbreaked your iPhone 3G then follow our[...]

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How to Unlock Jailbreak iPhone 2G on OS 3.1
Pwnage Tool (Mac)

These are instructions on how to unlock/jailbreak your 2G iPhone to the 3.1 iPhone firmware using Pwnage tool for Mac. Before beginning make sure you have updated to iTunes 9, This guide is for unlocking and Jailbreaking your iPhone 2G A.K.A iPhone Edge.[...]

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How-to: Get Google Gears Working in Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard was a remarkably painless upgrade for me, but one particularly important piece of software was broken: Google Gears.

For those who don?t know, Gears is Google?s framework for storing browser data offline. It works with many Google services as well as some third-party products. I use Gears primarily with Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) like Mailplane and Fluid, which give me offline access to Gmail, Google Reader and Remember The Milk.

These are some of my most used programs, and as such it became eminently obvious to me after the Snow Leopard upgrade that Google Gears was no longer working. To be clear, not all Snow Leopard installs will cause Google Gears to stop functioning. If you do a standard upgrade, Gears functionality should be carried over. Rather, it?s those like me who see a new operating system update as an opportunity to do a clean installation that will run into problems.

Specifically the new 64-bit version of Safari includes updated security features that are incompatible with Google Gears. If you tried to install Google Gears for OS X you would get a warning telling you that Google Gears won?t install on a version of OS X higher than 10.5. Now this makes some sense since Gears simply won?t work with the 64-bit version of Safari, but it also means that other programs like Mailplane and Fluid, which will work fine with the current version of Google Gears, are unable to get access to it?s features.

Google gears won't install on a clean Snow Leopard installation.

Thankfully, the helpful folks who developed Mailplane have created a hacked installer for Google Gears that skips the version check and allows you to install the program in Snow Leopard. You can pick up the modified installer here. As with any hack, proceed at your own risk, but my own experience has been flawless. Once I installed this version of Gears, Mailplane and Fluid were once again able to take advantage of the offline features of sites like Gmail.

Even with this version of Gears installed you won?t be able to use Gears with 64-bit Safari. If you do want to use Gears with Safari you will need to run it in 32-bit mode. This can be done easily by right-clicking on the Safari package, choosing Get Info and putting a check in the box next to ?Open in 32-bit mode?. Those of you who use Gears with Firefox may be wondering what all the fuss is about as Gears works fine with that browser. That?s because Gears for Firefox is actually a Firefox extension, rather than an operating system service as Gears for OS X is.

I hope this helps out all those other Snow Leopard users who depend on Google Gears and lost the functionality during a clean install. Hopefully Google updates Gears to work natively with Snow Leopard soon so workarounds like these are unnecessary.