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Here’s a Fix
iPhone Atlas has recently posted a story in regards to a fix for those who have been having issues saving images via the iPhone’s built in Camera application. It is being said that there are a select few of you out there who go to save an image right after taking a photograph, and can’t seem to find it within the Camera Roll application.
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Google Public DNS

Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.

To try it out:

Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers
If you decide to try Google Public DNS, your client programs will perform all DNS lookups using Google Public DNS.
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CorRD is Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft remote desktop and terminal services.
It is an open source native client for Mac OS X.

It is a Universal Binary, and allows you to connect to multiple servers concurrently. It was originally ported from the UNIX program rdesktop

Download link

=> Download CoRD

A nice list that will help you to clean up and speed up MAC OS X

From the article:

After Apple recently announced a delay to OS X 10.5 Leopard I had to delay my iMac upgrade until the Autumn. This led me to thinking about how to speed up Tiger to get the most out of my ageing G5.

This is what I came up with:
1. Repair Disk Permissions
Navigate to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Select your Macintosh HD and select Verify Disk Permissions. If needed you can then Repair Disk Permissions.

2. Clear out login items
Its good to check that unwanted programs are not starting up when you login to your Mac. This can be done from System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items.

convert iso to dmg

You can accomplish this in the Terminal with this command:
hdiutil convert “/path/to/name.iso” -format UDRW -o “/path/to/output.dmg”