Tag: Tips

I was just talking to my brother about this last night! This trick solved the problem! Apple Tip to speed up AppleWorks launches

I keep a album of photos at http://www.geeksrus.com/albums/ and I have been using Transmit to sync my local photo folder, which is generated by Simeon Leifer’s wonderful BetterHTMLExport. I’d noticed that transmit was not doing a proper job, and was slow! So having recent learned how to use rsync over ssh, and learning how to… Continue reading Unix rocks

I had some really weird stuff start happening. First Class (two versions) would take 2 minutes to launch. Excel would lock up when quitting, if I had text on the clipboard. I could not figure it out! I was not sure if they were related, so I deleted all of the FC prefs, reinstalled, nothing… Continue reading Applications being slow to launch, or not quitting?

This hotel I stayed in has 802.11b. I had bought a Linksys card for my TiBook and it works, but only 2 bars, so NO WAY the airport would have worked. They told me it was not Mac compatible. I said “Give me the PC instructions” All I needed was the SSID. Then it worked.… Continue reading Mac illiteracy

I wanted better airport/802.11b reception so I looked into third party antennas. Then I found I could get a Macsense 802.11b card for $99 but nobody had them. So on a lark I bought a Linksys 802.11b/g card for $80 from CompUSA and was going to find some third party drivers or hacks to make… Continue reading Apple Airport 3.1 now supports third party wireless cards

A friend installed this shareware hack onto his 15″ imac, rebooted, got a blinking question mark. After 2 days, it went back to Apple and was reported to have a bad logic board. Beware of this low level hack!

On Monday I was trying to use iChat AV and the video was SO SLOW I could not move windows, type, nothing! I thought it was my DV cam vs. my 500 TiBook. Then I logged out and back in today, and tried it again with my brother, and the speed was great! Then while… Continue reading SnapzPro conflicts with iChat AV

I installed the latest OS X Security Update for 10.2.6, and Airport 3.1 and rebooted. Networking was dead. The System Pref panels were dead. After dorking around for awhile, Curt suggested I delete: /private/var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml I did, and also /private/var/db/SystemConfiguration/com/apple.airport.preferences.xml Rebooted. All of my networking prefs were gone (yay) so I reset them to DHCP and… Continue reading Security Update got your network down?

iPhoto 2 now writes an XML file titled “AlbumData.xml” every time you make a change to a photo. This file contains all of your image references, your comments, titles and keywords. As iPhoto rewrites the entire file on every change, you can safely add this file to your .Mac backup list. The file can be… Continue reading iPhoto backup Tip

I have not been reading Macintouch over the last 6 months or so, because I have switched to reading my news via NetNewsWire, an RSS reader. Well now, Macintouch supports RSS! The url for your RSS newsreader is: http://www.macintouch.com/rss.xml

So it’s been a week since I entered technological hell. Cashed my bad karma chips in. Wanted to get into gardening. Why? Last Sunday my IBM Travelstar 48GB drive I had put into my PowerBook G4/500 died. It died a year ago and was replaced by IBM, but now it was dying again. It had… Continue reading What amount backup?

How to disable Ken Burns from every photo in iMovie 3

This is something that has been bugging me in all OS X apps and I would like your feedback. Lets say I open a new email message in Mail and start typing along. The default font is Helvetica 12 I think. Then I paste something in from, say, Script Editor. The font is Geneva with… Continue reading How to get back to “default” font

I called Apple on Wednesday about the kernel panics that Keynote was triggering. They had me delete two plists: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Keynote.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Keynote.plist I am not sure if this is a real solution, but I have not had once since doing this.

Happy New Years from Apple! iCal and iSync have both received updates. You must download them from the site, no Software Update is available as of this entry. For iSync, new additions include supporting the web accessed address book. YAY! This will go live after Jobs’ keynote next Tuesday. Also improved (but not tested) is… Continue reading Apple updates iCal and iSync

Ok all you OS X users who love the Unix shell, be sure to check out: iTerm

If you use Jaguar, download Keychain First Aid The link is to the version tracker page. KFA found four problems with my keychain – I had been experiencing the “.mac password forgotten” issue now and then. Hopefully with 10.2.2 and a fixed keychain, we’re good to go!

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.2 email client, Mail, has a very easy to use junk spam mail system. When email comes in that is spam, you simply select the email, click the “Junk” button and now Mail knows a little more about the spam you get. You continue to train Mail until it is marking… Continue reading Interesting Mail Spam UI issue

This may just be conincidence, but I seem to have lost a couple of emails from a friend. In other words, I never received them. I had not emailed this person until the day 10.2.2 came out, so it may just be conincendental. However, if you have emailed me and I have not responded, please… Continue reading Losing Mail with 10.2.2?