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Recently I came across this problem.

I had downloaded some podcasts on the iPhone. At work when I have no
Podcasts to listen to I grab some thru the iTunes app on the phone. Before iOS 5 the podcasts were treated like any other podcast that had come from a iTunes sync. But now those podcasts seem to have made a home on my iPhone and would not be deleted. Listen to or not.

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Gestures do solve some ui problems. Just not all of them. If you don't know it there you can't use them. It's not a new flaw it's a old one. If a command is buried in a menu and you don't know about it, you can't use it.

Photoshop is guilty of this. Content aware fill is a great tool. It's not a 100% fix but workable. I recently used it for a clean plate. Got me close and I painted the the rest of it. This tool fills in areas with content from surrounding areas. Sounds cool, huh! It is, but it's in a menu. My dad might use this a lot but I had to show him that it was there. Gestures adds a layer we didn't have before. Going from on the road with my laptop to my office is a change. My MacbookPro is plugged into a external monitor. As a result I no longer have a track pad. And now with the change to more of a iOS interface in Mac OS X a track pad is almost a must.

Michael