I have been using Google Latitude for a long time.  Predominantly on the blackberry.  It’s my product of choice for tracking friends over foursquare and many others.  Some time ago, Google released a browser based version for the iPhone.  Apple are the app store gatekeepers, and obviously they did not want to permit a “real” latitude app.  Now they have.  I noticed Google Latitude yesterday and installed.

And it works, and works well.  Until I tried to close it.  Latitude launches the GPS unit on the iPhone.  Close the app, and it keeps running.  Sign out of the app, and it keeps running.  It took a few hours to see this (without the product launched)

Restarting the device fully didn’t help.  Uninstalling latitude seemed to be the only thing that did it for me.  I would be interested in findings by other users.

If I remember correctly, Carl Tyler mentioned this to me in a chat and I find it very useful.  When listening to tech podcasts, I typically use the doublespeed feature.  The podcast is played 2x speed, but the audio is formatted to still be understandable and not squeeky.  Very handy.  No offense to the This week in Lotus guys with the screenshot above.

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Read this and weep.

If you are going to say you support a feature (e.g. IMAP).  Support it.  Or don’t.

If you want to integrate a Mac into an existing Windows or other standards-based network, read on. We’ll guide you through the process of setting up your system to take full advantage of network services such as directory services, file sharing, printing, email, and more.

It’s a good pdf, with an option to take a (not free) exam afterwards.

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I get surprised at how many people do not know how to do this.  Imagine you want a certain url to be redirected to a different url.  For example, you want a url called http://www.companyname.com/faqs to go to a specific page.

First of all, Im assuming you are using the “Internet Site” feature on the server (enabled in the basics of the server document).

Next thing I’m assuming is that you have an internet site document created for a website.

When you are in the site document, select “Web Site” and “create rule”

Under “type of rule” select “redirection”.

Under “Incoming URL pattern” enter “/faq”

Under “Redirect to this URL:” enter the full URL string.

Refresh the http task and that’s it.  There are lot’s of variants of this rule, and other things you can do with the web server site documents.  Try it.