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  Issue link: <http://db.tidbits.com/issue/940>

  After two weeks of vacation, Adam is still catching up, but he
  clears several items from his to-do list by reviewing the Garmin
  255W car navigation GPS and writing about how he backed up 10 GB of
  photos while traveling. He also looks through the top 100 iPhone
  apps in the App Store to see how many are likely to be useful,
  rather than pure entertainment, and reports on the latest MobileMe
  Mail outage, which was shared by Google's Gmail. Glenn Fleishman
  takes advantage of Sky Dayton stepping down from the board of
  EarthLink to look the companies Dayton has founded in the Internet,
  Wi-Fi hotspot, and cell phone industries. In the TidBITS Watchlist
  this week, we look briefly at the iPhone 2.0.1 software (Apple's
  release notes hit a new low with "Bug fixes") and Nisus Writer
  Express 3.1.

Articles
    MobileMe Mail and Gmail Go Down Simultaneously
    iPhone Apps That Go Beyond Entertainment
    Backing up Photos While Traveling
    Sky Dayton Steps Down from EarthLink
    Garmin nuvi 255W Focuses on Navigation
    TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 11-Aug-08
    Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/11-Aug-08


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