Apple / Mac

MailAnnounce Applescript App to Speak Mail Subject

12 April 2006

I have a computer in my living room to check email and do some lite work sometimes in the evenings. As I cannot see the screen from my old school easy chair, I found myself frequently getting up to check my email when I heard that familiar new mail ding. I found a post on [...]

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Making Life Easier

3 April 2006

I am embarrassed I hadn’t thought of this sooner. Maybe I can blame it on coming from the Windows world where this type of thing would never work consistently enough to remember. I open BBedit’s font pallete from time to time to increase the font size of a source file. [Going from 15" PowerBook screen [...]

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Speeding Up Mail.app

27 March 2006

I previously complained about miscellaneous bugs in the new Mail.app that came with OS X 10.4.4. In some IMAP accounts I was seeing a full directory listing of my hosting account, web files, misc files, mail; everything that was in my home directory. This had been bugging me to no end. On top of that [...]

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OSX Viruii – The First Two in the Same Weekend

20 February 2006

OSX has gone from no known virus threats on Friday morning, to two threats on Monday morning. What a weekend! From the Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center: OSX.Leap.A OSX.Inqtana.A Both are low risk viruii. OSX.Leap.A is a worm that spreads through iChat. OSX.Inqtana.A is a worm that spreads through the BlueTooth system. At this time, OSX.Inqtana.A [...]

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Mail.app IMAP Broken in 10.4.4 Update

24 January 2006

I updated to OSX 10.4.4 on Sunday and now my IMAP accounts to some servers are broken. Accounts on Dovecot and Courier servers appear to be working but any U of Washington IMAP servers now have their namespaces hosed. I get a list of all of the files in my home directory instead of mail [...]

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Convert Mac Line Endings

5 January 2006

I wasted an hour last week messing with a CSV file I was massaging data in for import into a large SQL database only to find out the reason the import kept dying was because of the Mac line endings. There are many shell script, Perl scripts and shell one liners to convert line endings [...]

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Microsoft Promotes Safari

3 January 2006

Internet Explorer on Mac reaches end of life with the close of 2005. Microsoft says migrate to a real browser like Safari. Internet Explorer 5 for Mac I’m sure this is old news, I just thought it was pretty funny.

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Low Tech Fixes Are the Best

3 January 2006

My Trash hasn’t been emptying completely the last several days. Even manually deleting them on iTerm wasn’t working: [damonp@pandora Desktop]$ sudo rm -rf Quicksilver.old.1.app/ rm: Quicksilver.old.1.app//Contents/Resources/en.lproj/Localizable.strings: Invalid argument rm: Quicksilver.old.1.app//Contents/Resources/en.lproj: Directory not empty rm: Quicksilver.old.1.app//Contents/Resources: Directory not empty rm: Quicksilver.old.1.app//Contents: Directory not empty rm: Quicksilver.old.1.app/: Directory not empty Searching provided many workarounds and hacks to [...]

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Mighty Mouse Trackball Woes

15 November 2005

I started playing with the new Mighty Mouse a couple of weeks ago and really like it. Having a right-click button again is so much easier than the whole CMD-click. I was lost without it the first month I got my PowerBook. I’ve seen some complaining about the mouse not having actual buttons and some [...]

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Party Shuffle iTunes Scripts

14 October 2005

Two scripts to add tracks to party shuffle. Grabs tracks from the currently playing artist: Random Tracks by Current Artist to Party Shuffle Grabs tracks from the selected artist: Random Tracks by Artist to Party Shuffle Thanks to Doug Adams for the original scripts to hack up.

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