The new iPhone G3 has a flush mount headphone jack and that is a good thing. The original iPhone had a resessed headphone jack that made it inconvenient to say the least. I constantly grab a pair of headphones and have to slice off a bit of the plug to allow it to fit into the iPhone. But that only gives me good listening and doesn't provide a microphone.

IMAP is, in my opinion, the way to go for email. It allows you to view your email from any computer and yet keep a master copy of the email messages on a server. Google has IMAP support built into GMail so that you can use your favorite email client to read your GMail email. So, for quite a while now, I have been using IMAP to connect too my 3 email inboxes. And, being on a Mac, I have been using Apple Mail, sometimes called Mail.app to read my mail. But about 2 weeks ago I noticed that I could not use the Mail search to find matches using "Entire Message" as the target of the search. Here is how I fixed that problem.

Recently a listener wrote in:
"Can not figure out where or how, when online, I can select a portion of a
page, select color or grayscale, and select "best, normal, draft," etc.
Even in Word it takes a bunch of steps to do that, but online the "copies
& pages, paper/type/quality" is missing from the list. How do I do this?
Thanks, Jim, using an iMac and OSX."

Here is a clip from The Colbert Report explaining the current state of US telecommunications monopolies.

Mike writes in:

Hi I have an old Compaq 7470 PC with a 1999 dated internal hard drive. I was wondering if it was possible to extract the contents (files) of the old hard drive by a simple connection to my laptop. I just thought there
might exist a connection that allows the drive to show up as maybe an external drive ( like a traveldrive ) from an ATA to firewire connection. Maybe my understanding of the process is a bit off however. Thanks for any info.

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We would not be geeks if we did not maintain our own server. The machine that currently hosts this site is fairly complicated.

Thanks in large part to Josh's consistent requests I have put together a GeekSpeak Blog. This system runs on Drupal a PHP based content management system.