What this means is that she can SILENCE her ringer when she goes to sleep at night, but she can set an EXCEPTION for her important family members so that they will ALWAYS ring through no matter what (in case of an emergency).

The way to easily imitate this functionality on the iPhone is very easy, and is outlined by Richard K. Miller on his blog here.

This is the simple process, in a nutshell:

1. Simply download a silent ringtone and set that as your default ringtone before you go to sleep at night.

2. But for any family members that you want to ring through, go into their contact card and set them to have their own audible ringtones. (This is a one-time setting for your family members; you don’t have to change this setting on a daily basis.)

3. Then, when you wake up in the morning, change your default ringtone back to an audible ringtone again.

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The world misses Steve Jobs terribly.

Apple should hire me to speak for them again, like I did from 2000 to 2006.

Now look, I’m not saying that Verizon is any better (they’re far worse, actually), but I think that AT&T is the company that sets the bar for being SUCKABLE to which all corporate conglomerates strive to achieve.

After spending 2 hours on hold or being transferred amongst various AT&T representatives in India who didn’t understand a thing about what I was trying to do, and after scouring the useless users manual for any hint of a solution, and after searching multiple online forums for people frantically searching for the same answers as me… I finally had to just roll up my sleeves, dig in, and figure it out for myself (with the help of my great clients at Aware Awake Alive).

All I wanted to do was something very simple for my clients:

Put a router (the 2Wire 3800HGV-B router, commonly used for AT&T U-Verse installations) into bridge mode, so that an Apple Time Capsule (or an Airport Extreme) could control the NAT on the network instead of the 2-Wire router controlling the network.

Super-simple, right?

Not according to the 3 Indian representatives and 1 American representative I spoke to at AT&T. They all told me that this wasn’t a configuration that they supported… that you can’t use any other routers on your network except their own. Well, of course, they’re morons because of COURSE it can be done.

And actually, it is very simple, once you know where to look.

To put your 2Wire 3800HGV-B router into bridge mode, all you have to do is this:

1. Use your computer to get on the same network as your 2Wire router, either wireless or hardwired in with an Ethernet cable.

2. Go to your web browser and type in 192.168.1.254, which will take you to the 2Router administration page.

3. Log in with the password printed on the side of your router.

4. Go to Settings>System Info>Event Notifications, and check the box called “Router-Behind-Router Detection” then click “Save”.

5. Restart your 2Wire router (one of the screens gives you a restart button… sorry, I didn’t document which screen it was on). Alternatively, if you surf to any web page, you MIGHT get a 2Wire warning asking you if you’re sure you want to configure your router. Just ignore the warning, tell it to go ahead and do the configuration, and it will restart your router for you.

6. You’re all set! Now you can plug your Airport Extreme or your Time Capsule (or Airport Extreme) into one of the “Local Ethernet” ports on the back of the 2Wire router, and your Time Capsule is now in charge of your network (after you configure your Time Capsule properly). Your Apple router is now in charge of all NAT and port forwarding.

Note: This procedure may or may not work with other models of 2Wire router as well, depending on what firmware those routers are running.

One final note about configuring U-Verse in your home: We also had real difficulty figuring out which ports to plug the split RJ-11 DSL wires into on the 2Wire router. The solution involved LEAVING ONE OF THE RJ-11 DSL WIRES UNPLUGGED FROM THE 2WIRE ROUTER. Only ONE of the RJ-11 DSL wires gets plugged into the 2Wire router, and it gets plugged into the “Phone Line” port instead of the “Broadband” port. You have to leave the “Broadband” port completely empty in order for the 2Wire modem to work properly. Then, plug your telephone into the “Lines 1 & 2″ port. Leave the “Alt Line” port empty. Also, we figured out that your U-Verse TV service will not work unless ALL components (video and audio) are turned ON. We turned off the stereo which provided the audio to the TV, and it completely cut out the TV service. When the stereo came back on, the TV service came back on.

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Fortunately, ZangZing has stepped in to fill the void. ZangZing will import all of your existing MobileMe Photo Galleries to their website, and they give you several options for uploading future iPhoto photos, as well.

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We found a wonderful article on this topic that currently has over 150 comments from people explaining why it’s a terrible idea to upgrade to Lion.

One of our favorite comments is from somebody who calls Lion a “toy operating system”, which we couldn’t agree with more.

If you actually need to get REAL work done on your Mac, if you depend on being productive throughout your day instead of being hampered by one limitation after another, if you actually need to use your Address Book* on your Mac, if you want to save yourself thousands of dollars in upgrade fees, if you want to keep your Mac humming at a fast speed, if you want to keep your Mac bug-free… then AVOID LION AT ALL COSTS until Apple forces you to upgrade.

Unfortunately, the date when Apple will force you to upgrade to Lion is coming sooner than we’d like, because of 3 factors:
1. Apple’s discontinuation of MobileMe in June 2012.
2. Apple’s insistence that iCloud will only work with Lion.
3. The dwindling reserve of new Snow Leopard Macs available to purchase.
So the latest date that most people will be able to delay upgrading to Lion will be June 2012, which we think is truly criminal on Apple’s part.

For your ultimate happiness, follow our advice: Stick with Snow Leopard for as long as you possibly can. If you need to buy a new Mac, there are only a very small handful of iMacs, MacBook Airs, and MacBook Pros available on amazon.com that are still shipping with Snow Leopard. But once those are gone, you will be hard-pressed to find any new Snow Leopard Macs for purchase. Some of the refurbished Macs on Apple’s website MIGHT ship with Snow Leopard, but Apple doesn’t reveal on their website what operating system you’ll be getting with each refurbished Mac. Your local Mac reseller might have a couple Snow Leopard Macs available, too.

*Both Address Book and iCal are absolutely terrible & completely unusable in Lion. Luckily, we have a fantastic replacement for iCal in the form of BusyCal, but there are no current replacements for Address Book.

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If your company is looking for true communication between FileMaker Pro and QuickBooks, unfortunately you can’t use QuickBooks for Mac. You would have to run QuickBooks for Windows within a virtual environment on your Mac (such as VMWare Fusion), because only the Windows version for QuickBooks has APIs which enables great things like Productive Computing’s FMBooksConnector plug-in to work.

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You were my mentor, my hero, and my idol. You shaped my entire life, my career, and the way I view the world. I feel extremely lucky to have met you on multiple occasions, and even luckier that I got to work for you for 6 years. Heaven is gaining your brilliance now, but you will be sorely missed here on earth. You weren’t one in a million… you were one in a BILLION. Thanks for everything you have done to enhance humans’ lives worldwide, and for tirelessly changing the world for the best. The world will never be the same. You will be forever missed, every single day. Thank you for everything. Rest in peace.

Love,
Scott