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@ skitty4:

#1: I have no experience at all trying to connect WinMo to Mac. With a Windows Vista computer, and I'm hoping the Mac emulation is similar, the easiest way I've found to deal with CAB files is: Download the CAB to the laptop desktop. Connect the Imagio to the laptop with the USB cable. Go to Start> Computer> Mobile Devices> Imagio, where the Imagio and its microSD card appear as hard drives, courtesy of Windows Mobile Device Center. You can then, using your laptop, copy or move the CAB from your laptop desktop to your microSD (I have created a folder on the microSD called "CABS" for just this purpose). Disconnect your phone from the laptop, use File Explorer on the phone to navigate to the new CAB on your microSD card, click it and watch it install. I've run into a couple of programs that can install by clicking them on the laptop while the phone's connected via USB cable, but they've always had good directions to do so; most app CABS need to be clicked from within the phone itself. Now, this begs the obvious question: if you've got a MAC, wouldn't getting an iPhone be loads easier? The reason I've got a WinMo Imagio is largely because I don't want the headaches of making a Palm Pre, iPhone or Droid connect with Windows Vista or Windows Office Outlook, Excel, Word, etc. I was drooling over the Palm Pre last June until I found out you couldn't synch directly with Outlook, you had to synch the Pre with Google Mail/Calendar, then synch Google back to Windows Vista. Fail, IMHO, for both security and ease of use. I don't want my bizness spread all over the internetz, if you see my point. Now, the compatibility problems between Mac & Win have been a problem for 25 years at least, so staying completely within one camp or another has always seemed lots easier to me.

#2: Sorry, I haven't tried changing the vibe. I'm doubting it's possible to make the vibration bigger or more violent, as that would require a bigger motor to be installed.

#3: Rather than use the alarm clock, try setting a recurring appointment with 1 minute notification in your calendar. If you set an appointment for 7:00-7:30 AM, called "Wake up! Wake up! Get outta bed you slug!" the phone will actually shout at you until you get out of bed and stop it.

#4: htcaddicts' cleanRAM is a good freeware memory cleaner. I've been running it for months on my Imagio with good results. Set it to do a "Level 2" cleaning automatically every hour and it will reclaim all the leaked memory back to the phone. If you're in the middle of doing something when it wants to clean the RAM, there's an abort button that appears for about 10 seconds. Find it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=514333

#5: The folks with Samsung Omnia II are pretty impressed with the Swype method of finger-sliding keyboard entry. I've seen on various boards that some Imagio owners are loading it on and trying it out. It may work for you.

#6: I'm not sure what your issue is with text notifications is. If you use the bottom screen TouchFLO slider to "messaging", you stay within the HTC interface without going to Windows Mobile "text messages". If you mean that you're finding a phantom text notification without any text message it refers to, it's a known bug with the Imagio and there's an app that fixes that, which can be found here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=90340