Reprinted from TidBITS#890/30-Jul-07 with permission. Copyright (C) 2007, TidBITS. All rights reserved. http://www.tidbits.com/ Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/30-Jul-07 ------------------------------------ by TidBITS Staff article link: **Sites with info for new Mac users** -- Following last week's mention of the MyFirstMac site, we receive other recommendations. (3 messages) **Personal Finance Program with Shared Database** -- Are there any finance programs for the Mac that allow two people to make separate entries on different computers, but access all the same data? (1 message) **Recovering data from single density floppy disks?** Dig back into your Mac memory to find out how to read data from old 400K floppy disks. (20 messages) **Cell Phone Prepaid Plans** -- Last week's article on prepaid cellular plans raises a variety of questions from readers. (8 messages) **Rumour Site "MacOSRumors" Off The Air?** A Mac rumor site has gone dark. We'll all adapt somehow, or at least that's the rumor. (7 messages) **Multiple mailboxes on the iPhone** -- The iPhone's Mail program supports multiple folders, but they must be created on the Mac first, apparently. (9 messages) **Writing software for novelists** -- A novelist gives high marks to Scrivener, a program designed specifically for the needs of serious fiction writers. (3 messages) **Palm Software** -- What's the best approach to synchronizing an old Treo with a modern Mac? (7 messages) **Actual iPhone sales and activations** -- Although Apple claimed 270,000 iPhones sold within the third fiscal quarter of 2007, how were those numbers calculated? (2 messages) **iPhone Features & Software** -- A reader looking to replace his Treo 650 with an iPhone seeks advice on replacement software and tasks, too. What's available for the iPhone now? (7 messages) **iPhone batteries v. laptop batteries** -- Will iPhone batteries withstand charging cycles better than laptop batteries, and if so, why? (1 message) $$ This is TidBITS, a free weekly technology newsletter providing timely news, insightful analysis, and in-depth reviews to the Macintosh and Internet communities. Feel free to forward to friends; better still, please ask them to subscribe! Non-profit, non-commercial publications and Web sites may reprint or link to articles if full credit is given. Others please contact us. We do not guarantee accuracy of articles. Caveat lector. Publication, product, and company names may be registered trademarks of their companies. TidBITS ISSN 1090-7017. Copyright 2007 TidBITS: Reuse governed by Creative Commons license. Contact us at: TidBITS Web site: License terms: Full text search: Subscriptions: Account help: .