Mail.app, Outlook, Attachments and Disappearing Text
There’s a particularly nasty implementation detail that doesn’t seem to come up often but is just waiting to bite just about every Mac user in the ass. Mail.app allows users to attach files inline allowing them to be part of the flow of the text or in the case of one of my users be […]
i5/i7 MacBook Pros do NOT support Jumbo Frames
While doing some research I discovered (first with the 27” iMacs) and now with the new MacBook Pro line that runs the i5 or the i7 processors; Apple has slotted in an ethernet controller that does NOT support Jumbo Frames. See page four of the PDF of the Broadcom 5764 Chipset
Magic Mouse: Impressions
As many of you are aware, Apple released a new horribly named mouse, the Magic Mouse. On Saturday I had the opportunity (since I was in the mall anyway) to drop by the Market Mall Apple Store and give the mouse a whirl - it was comfortable, did not have the gum-up-every-5-seconds trackball, and was […]
Initial Snow Leopard Client Impressions
My initial impressions are that Snow Leopard is very much worth the upgrade if you can afford the time to do an operating system upgrade (in this case for me it was ~1.5 hours: 45 minute install, 45 minutes testing apps and seeing they still worked without any modification) Pros: Speed Awesome! New Services Feature […]
iCal Server Multiple / Sub Calendars and Sunbird
At my workplace we use iCal Server running on Mac OS X 10.5 Server to share several calendars all under our one staff group. With iCal, so long as the group is delegated to be shown on the user’s accounts you can see all the calendars but with Sunbird you only get to see the […]
Quick Looking a .csv File
On ServerFault someone was asked a question why .csv files were unable to be viewed in Quick Look. For some reason .csv files are not defined as plain text by the operating system which leads to odd conflicts between applications that can deal with .csv files that causes QuickLook to report that it can’t find […]
Aborting On the Second Disk on a Restore
Scenario: Client attempts to restore their iMac using their Software Restore disks (10.4.10) but the second disk containing iLife for some reason refuses to be recognized. iLife is already installed and the OS has been installed but the Installer will come up everytime you attempt to start up the computer. The workaround: Start up the […]
Invisible Shield
When I got my iPhone I went looking for a case that ideally would not make the iPhone much more thicker than necessary, protected the screen from fingerprints and scratches and generally didn’t suck. It took a while but after reading reviews I settled on using the Invisible Shield by Zagg. Good The Invisible Shield […]
iPhone Restoration : Restoring Home Screen Layout (Pre 3.0)
After having gone through 3 iPhones and countless restores of different iPhones and iPod touches I had to get to the bottom of how to restore my layout of my apps on my home screens. The Cause When you restore your iPhone / iPod touch to it’s factory defaults the device is not connected to […]
Disabling Mail.app’s To Do Mailboxes and Quasi-Debugging Mailbox Creation
Leopard’s Mail.app introduced some nice speed improvements over Tiger’s version but introduced one of the most annoying features (IMNSHO) in Leopard. System Wide “To Dos” in a garish Marker Felt font intent on polluting my IMAP mailboxes with Apple Mail To Do or ToDos.mbox seemingly placed randomly (they aren’t but when your Prefixes differ from […]
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