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How to Fix Apple Mail When It Gets Stuck

Complete troubleshooting guide for Apple Mail on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Fix stuck messages, sync issues, and performance problems on macOS Ventura, Sonoma, and Sequoia.

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New Habits

I’ve had this blog for the past 13 years in some form or another. Its lived under a few different domains (crackmac.com, uphonic.com, kevinduane.com) and…

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Mac OS 10.5.7 update broke JMeter

The latest Java update from Apple broke JMeter... not sure why but JMeter needs Java 1.5. Add this line near the top of your…

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Mac Automation: Quickly add to-dos/events to iCal- The Unofficial Apple Weblog TUAW

| Mac Automation: Quickly add to-dos/events to iCal- The Unofficial Apple Weblog TUAW | How many times have you been watching TV and wanted to quickly add a to-do or event maybe both to iCal? In this Mac Automation post, Im going to show you how to create both a to-do and an iCal event from within Automator. You will be able to add new items to iCal without ever having to open it. Lets begin.

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FlickrFan public beta

FlickrFan is a new kind of RSS reader for the Macintosh. You subscribe to feeds of cool pictures and show them on the screen of your laptop, desktop or…

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Mac Mojo : How to open .docx on your Mac

With this free converter we passionately want to get you up and reading the new documents you are receiving. We do not, however, want to see you…

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Web Development

Macworld: First Look: First Look: ModBook

Ever since the Newton came—and went—in the 1990s, a small but vocal group of Mac users have clamored for a tablet Mac. At least to this point, Apple…

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Web Development

Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X

| Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X | Building a website is a complicated process, and testing your finished product | on every possible browser can be even more daunting. However, because modern | browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer 6 are compliant with the | World Wide Web Consortiums W3C standards, testing your pages with the W3C | Validation Tool is a great way to ensure that your pages work with modern | browsers. The W3C Validator provides a line-by-line level of feedback, such as | error information with references to the standards, on any URL you submit or | HTML file you upload.

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Web Development

Illustrator CS2 crashes on Intel Mac 10.4.8

Adobe Illustrator CS2 crashes on an Intel Mac Pro running Mac OS 10.4.8 when a designer tries to use a tool on the pathfinder palette. This only happens…

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Web Development

Using Sun Java Studio Creator 2 on Mac OS X

Java Studio Creator is an easy-to-use visual tool for developing Web applications with Java. Designed for the corporate developer who needs to be…

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Best Practices: Operations

The Mac OS X Server community tends to be an odd one in the larger IT world. It isn’t because of the relative scarcity of our OS, or the strange hardware…

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Accessing a Windows 2003 Share from OS X

At home we have a Windows 2003 Server running as a domain controller and file server. Whilst this does its job pretty nicely for Windows clients, I’ve…

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Create a hard-drive based OS X installer

A recent post reminded me of a trick I’ve been using for the past year or so with great success, so I figured I’d share. Being a Mac specialist, I find…

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Web Development

Software - DMS for Mac OSX

Installing Alfresco to create workflows and manage your documents…

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Security

Block SSH script attacks

Looks like someone is trying to break into your machine and you’d be right. It’s more than likely a script or robot just knocking on your door, but you…

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Gmail Notifier for Mac OSX

For those of you who don’t have a Gmail account yet go to gmail.com and get signed up. The new authentication process uses your cell phone to prove your a…

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Mac OS X - Hidden Files

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The idea of a hidden file has changed since the days of the classic Mac OS, where a file's "hidden" attribute was set in the resource fork of the file, and wasn't immediately accessible to the user. In OS X (and UNIX in general), it's much easier. All you have to do is preface the name of a file with a period ("."), and the file won't show up in the Finder, as well as Save/Open dialogs, etc. This can be a good way to hide a confidential file

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Web Development

HOW TO - Enhanced Podcasts

| MAKE: Blog: HOW TO make Enhanced Podcasts (images, links and more with audio) | Apple's new iTunes 4.9, iPod color, allows you to view (and listen to) "enhanced podcasts" these are audio files that can have slideshows, URLs and some cool features we have discovered. Apple's included documents and a Wiki was all I needed to make our MAKE enhanced podcasts, but I also wrote a how-to. Here's how to get, make and all you need to know about enhanced podcasts! As a bonus, we put together some fun ideas we think many might use...

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Install Open-Xchange on OS X Server

  • portal : the first user page showing last information - webmail : web access to internal messaging system - calendar : let you manage your personnal and…

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Web Development

Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook?

Mac OS X is built of two components, Darwin, the BSD-based Unix underpinnings, and Aqua, the beautiful graphical user interface we Mac heads have all…

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Macs on Microsoft Networks

Read this article.

If you work in network support for Windows, sooner or later it's bound to happen. You'll be sitting quietly at your desk, and someone will walk up with a long list of questions about their Apple Macintosh computer. How do we connect it to the existing network? How will users access file shares, print, browse the Internet, and use e-mail? What do you do? You don't know anything about a Mac beyond plugging it into the wall. In a perfect world, you could plug in any device and go to work. Unfortunately, it's a little more involved than that. It isn't as hard as it sounds, though, nor is it as difficult as it used to be. Just remember that there is more than one way to peel an Apple!

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Panther Maintenance Tips

by FranÁois Joseph de Kermadec -- Yes, Mac OS X is incredibly stable, but here’s a comprehensive list of tips to keep it that way for the duration of…

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Create a customized 10.3 'Rescue CD/DVD'

From the good folks at macosxhints.com.

I always thought it might be helpful to use the OS X installation CD not only for the purpose of installing the OS, but to do some repairs which can't be done when running from the hard disk. Fortunately, Apple has made this very easy. The only thing you have to do is to add the application(s) of your choice to the /Applications -> Utilities folder of the installation CD/DVD. After that, boot from the copy of the DVD, and in addition to the usual utilities, (for instance) the Terminal will appear in the list of commands you can execute if you added it before. I find that really useful, because if something goes wrong, the underlying Unix commands are most times able to fix it.

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Security

Mac OS X Security Advisory

| Mac OS X Security Advisory | Vulnerability: | Malicious DHCP response can grant root access

| Affected Software | Mac OS X 10.3 (all versions through at least 26-Nov-2003) | Mac OS X Server 10.3 (all versions through at least 26-Nov-2003) | Mac OS X 10.2 (all versions through at least 26-Nov-2003) | Mac OS X Server 10.2 (all versions through at least 26-Nov-2003) | Probably earlier versions of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server | Possibly developer seeded copies of future versions of Mac OS X

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Apple debuts updated PowerBook line

"Apple continues to lead the industry’s move to portable computing by delivering the world’s most innovative notebooks," said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

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Mac OS X Panther

| Mac OS X Panther is set to roar onto the scene later this year, and itís something you donít want to miss. No matter how you use your Mac, Panther makes better, sporting improvements from head to paws. Learn more about the future today in this Sneak Preview, and stay tuned for more news of the future. | Link | | As a super-modern operating system, Mac OS X already combines the power and stability of Unix with the simplicity and elegance of the Macintosh. Its gorgeous user interface, Aqua, brings your desktop to life with expressive icons, vibrant color and fluid motion. Cutting-edge graphics technologies offer capabilities beyond anything ever seen in a desktop operating system. At the foundation of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength, Unix-based core operating system, called Darwin, that delivers unprecedented stability and performance. And only with Mac OS X can you run Microsoft Office, Quark XPress and Adobe Photoshop, browse a Windows network and use Unix commands ó at the same time.

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