Quick and Dirty: Disabling Firefox’s Updates with a CCK
With Firefox’s new 6 week major release cycle combined with the fact Firefox won’t silently update to major versions like Chrome I got a lot of complaints about Firefox always asking for an update. Unfortunately Firefox doesn’t deal with plist files like most other Mac apps (part of it’s cross platform nature) so MCX isn’t […]
Calgary FCPUG: Outputting to Blu-ray, DVD and the Web
I’ve now uploaded the slides from the talk I gave to the Calgary FCPUG about outputting to Blu-ray, DVD and the Web. You can grab them from the following link: http://chealion.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/OutputBDDVDWeb.pdf I do have an audio recording of the first presentation I’ve given since high school but have yet had a chance to listen and […]
Using Gmail as your SMTP server When Using your ISP’s Email
NOTE: You’re going to be using Google’s service to send the email but for all intents and purposes it’s completely transparent to both you and your recipient. It’s also a world lot better than using some random SMTP server (having to find out the local one and always change it) or finding all your email […]
Hooking Up with Shaw’s New “Remote SMTP” Service
Please join me in welcoming Shaw’s new feature of actually allowing Shaw email users to send email while travelling without resorting to webmail or trying to find the local ISP’s SMTP server address (or seeing that Telus’ mobile SMTP server is blacklisted AGAIN marking all your email as spam). This is of course ignoring that […]
Using AWStats 7.0 with S3 Logs
The necessary code changes from Amazon’s Tutorial on using AWStats with S3 Logs take place at line 17,764 with version 7.0 and not 10,657. The hint? Just do a search for # HTTP request. Keep only GET, POST, HEAD for any version of AWStats. Of note, as of the published date AWStats 7.0 does not […]
Using Compressor to Make H.264 MP4s
In April I pushed to GitHub my RewraptoMP4 Script I put together to help assist in creating proper MPEG-4 container files while being able to use the x264 QuickTime component in Compressor. Compressor only allows you to specify the codec being used when exporting to a QuickTime file, however it is possible to use QuickTime […]
Using HTML 5’s Video To Serve Baseline and Main Profile Content
At work I was trying out to see if I could use the new video tag in HTML 5 to show two different versions of the same video; one optimized for devices that accept only the Baseline profile (eg. iPhone 3G S and older, many other phones) and one optimized for larger devices (eg. iPad, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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