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I'm experiencing a strange Safari 3 bug on Leopard involving color on web pages. It seems that sometimes a page will "lose" its color past a certain point on a page after I scroll down. I can't pinpoint the cause to any particular page or situation. Have you had this problem? I've already reported it to Apple (Radar #5608552) but if you have had this problem, let me know and I'll pass it along. Screenshots and more info after the jump.

Undercover, a theft recovery solution for Macs, has been updated to 2.0 and is free to all existing users. This release includes a new "Plan B" feature: if you Mac is disconnected from the internet for two months, the Mac will become unusable until reconnected. This release also includes support for Leopard and takes up less resources. In the event your Mac is stolen, Undercover transmits iSight pictures, screenshots, and network information to Undercover's servers, where the information is given to ...

The Apple iPod touch web apps page shows several iPod touches, all with a little AT&T in the upper left corner. No conspiracy here, just amusing.

Update: It’s fixed now: iPod is shown instead of AT&T.

Being without an iPhone, I’ve quietly wondered why the iTunes icon was placed on the right side on the home screen instead of the left like everything else. 37signals explains the genius of how the iTunes icon is placed on the iPhone… right above to the “docked” iPod icon. It makes a lot more sense now.

Equally interesting is how Apple seems to group icons by color according to their application’s function on the iPhone.

If this MacRumors post is to be believed, full Calendar editing will soon be possible on the iPod touch, with Steve himself labeling the lack of editing as “a bug that will be fixed in a future software update.”

I’ve always wanted this feature and sent feedback to Apple about it. The touch would fit my needs well: a device to manage events, play music, and do light browsing over campus Wi-Fi. I think contacts make more sense on an actual phone.

Apparently you can’t add calendar events on the iPod touch. This makes little sense, and makes even less sense when the ability to add contacts is left intact! (Not that I would like to see that removed also.)

The response from Apple seems to be “it’s not a PDA.” Apple, I thought the iPod was a media player, not an internet device. Come on.

You know those little arrow links that appear next to track names and artists in iTunes? Typically, clicking them takes you to the iTunes Store page for that item. What I didn't know is that Option-clicking them will take you to related items in your music library, a feature I've always wanted. The best part: you can invert the behavior so that the arrow takes you to your library's items by default. Simply type "defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES" (without ...

I have spent a week with my brand new black MacBook now, and it is amazing. I set it up on Thursday while I was at work. It was extremely simple to set up. I had a external USB hard drive containing a backup of my Mac mini. I just plugged in the drive and the first-run setup assistant asked if I was transferring from another Mac. I selected the "transfer from another partition" and my USB drive came right up. ...

After 2 years of solid, reliable, trouble-free operation, my Mac mini suddenly experienced a hard drive failure. Yesterday around midnight I was busy working on a school project in Pages on my Mac mini G4. The songs I were playing were skipping like crazy and the computer gradually slowed to a crawling pace. I restarted the machine, but the computer appeared to be stuck at the grey boot screen. The Combo drive in my mini was half-working (a problem I couldn't get ...

Speaking of the iPhone, it turns out I might actually be able to buy one when it comes out. According to Verizon, my cellular contract expires on 07/07/07… perfect timing for the June release of the iPhone. Awesome!