Articles tagged with: OS X
Have you ever had a friend disappear for a while and then suddenly reappear weighing 50 pounds less? Changed the diet. Went to 24 Hour Fitness. I always feel amazed at this transformation: looks like …
After attempting to update my own laptop running OS X 10.5.5 and several iMacs earlier this week, it was apparent that there was a bug during the 10.5.6 update installation.
Apple has acknowledged the issue and …
Does your Apple Mail feel sluggish? Then this is the command you should execute from the Terminal (after making sure Mail is not running):
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum subjects;
This is a safe command to run; it …
Adobe’s April update for their Flash player is also included in Apple’s latest Leopard rollup to 10.5.3, so if you have that installed you don’t need to worry. Everyone else, no matter …
A quick fix for what ails your mac
If you see strange behavior from you Mac, deleting various cache files in the Library/Caches folder in your home directory may be all you need to do to …
I recently had Google damage one of my iCal calendars when syncing with BusySync. Using my backup, I took these simple steps to resolve the issue.
Navigate to the /Users/username/Library/Calendars folder
Browse the randomly named folders …
Well now this is just stupid.
Taking a chapter right out of Microsoft’s intrusive “We’ll block everything for you until you say it’s ok” Vista book, Adobe has suddenly and annoyingly decided to block every flash …
Apple made a small change to the way that printers work in OS 10.5 Leopard. Previously, in Tiger, when you printed a document, the printer would bounce in the dock, and then when done printing, …
A collegue/friend of mine once used the expression “Mac Bigots” to describe a small group of us. This is most certainly the case. I freely admit to being extrememly biased in the ever stimulating debate …
We have a client that has a serial scanner connected to an OS9 workstation. Recently, we updated their server and other OSX workstations to 10.4.9. When attempting to copy scanned files back to the OSX …