http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:18:34 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001022.html While experimenting with LDAP connections in Safari, errors like this one started popping up: "The website _____ requires a client certificate" A dialog would open, listing some old MobileMe certificates. Apparently if any old, expired or corrupt MobileMe certificates are still lodged in the Keychain, you may get this error sometimes. MobileMe has been disabled and signed out on my... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001018.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000976.html Sometimes for whatever reason, Time Machine doesn't auto-delete backups to make space for new ones. If you have this problem you might try getting it going again by manually deleting one or two of the oldest ones. Here's how to safely do this, using the Time Machine interface. Enter Time Machine and select the backup you want to delete.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000966.html There have been a few interface updates to Amazon's Kindle page since I last wrote about it, but there remains a strange lack of comprehension on the part of Amazon, that people might actually want to use their highlights. There is still no obvious way to export the data. For those with Macs, I've come up with a workaround, and... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000950.html iCloud looks great on paper, but the effects of choices you must make to enable it are not obvious, so, as a busy person with more than enough troubleshooting to do, I am shutting it off for now. No replacement for iDisk yet. --> I'm probably one of the few people that use iDisk, but I do use it. I... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000933.html By default, Spotlight indexes local drives. However it is possible to force it to index networked AFP (Apple File Protocol) volumes as well. Open Terminal, and type sudo bash It will ask for your password.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000930.html I used to use Directory Utility occasionally, and was surprised not to be able to find it anymore in the Utilities folder in Snow Leopard. It turns out it's been moved to the \System\Library\Core Services\ folder, but the best way to access it is now through System Preferences.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000929.html I use several large external drives with my iMac to manage photos and multiple systems. Lately I've had a frequent problem with Finder crashes. Using Force Quit to "Relaunch" the finder does cause it to quit, but it never restarts.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000901.html Add MPEG StreamClip and Perian to your system to import, play and convert video in more formats. There are some video formats that Quicktime and Quicktime based applications have a hard time interpreting. For instance, certain Sony video cameras produce files in multiplexed (muxed) mpeg format. If you use Quicktime player, iMovie or Final Cut, the video will probably play... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000893.html When installing Windows 7 in VMWare Fusion or Parallels, if you get the following error: The unattend answer file contains an invalid product key" simply open the VMWare Settings or in Parallels, select Virtual Machine > Configure and disconnect the floppy drive. Resources Error message about unattend file when upgrading Virtual Machine to Windows 7 "The unattend answer file contains... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000892.html I find the new debugging tools in Safari almost as useful as Firebug. There's a Web Inspector that lets you see exactly how the HTML is formed, a Javascript console that lets you see errors and debugging messages written into the code and much more. But to use them you must enable the Debug menu in Safari. Open Safari preferences... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000880.html XCode, the developer tools suite provided by Apple is available to registered Apple Developers for free. If you are not a registered developer with Apple, you can still get XCode for a small fee through the App Store. But unlike many of the app store applications, clicking the "Install" button under the XCode description does not directly result in a... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000879.html If you get this error when trying to upgrade the operating system on an iPhone or iPad: "There are purchased items on the iPhone (iPad) "[name of device]" that have not been transferred" Things to try:... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000812.html While setting up Nutch on a Mac, I kept getting this error in the terminal: Error: JAVA_HOME is not set To fix the error on OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), enter the following at the command prompt: export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) On 10.5 and above, the command line tool /usr/libexec/java_home dynamically finds the top Java version specified in Java Preferences for the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000808.html A quick troubleshooting tip for Mac users: If you are having problems with image icons in the Finder that look like generic jpeg icons instead of icon previews, try relaunching the Finder. Select Force Quit from the Apple menu. Select Finder, then click the Relaunch button. Or, delete the Finder preferences and then relaunch the Finder. (~User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist) http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=438731 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=478802...