Silence the startup “Bong” on an Intel iMac
It used to be possible to silence the loud “Bong” sound that all Macs make on startup by simply hitting the “Mute” key on the keyboard before starting the computer. This no longer works on
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Set up Mail.app to handle ALL your email accounts, including Groupwise
A lot of people are unaware that it’s possible to set up multiple email accounts on Mail.app. You can even add your office GroupWise account! This is true for most mail clients, including Entourage and Outlook, but I’m just going to discuss Mail.app here, since everyone’s getting iPads these days, it seems…
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How to shoot a screenshot on the iPad without accidentally shutting it down
I must have a heavy touch: every time I tried to shoot a screenshot on the iPad, following all the directions I’ve read on other sites, I’d end up turning off the iPad instead. But
Continue readingMicrosoft Remote Desktop Connection for Mac
There is a Mac version of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection available here: [Download here]
Among other things, this means you can log on and manage Windows servers from your Mac!
Continue readingSpeed up Mail.app
Mail.app has been misbehaving lately on my iMac. It seems to be slowing down in general. I see way too much of the spinning beachball, so I’ve been trying all sorts of fixes, most of
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“Camera communication error” on Canon PowerShot camera
I carry a little Canon PowerShot SD 990 camera everywhere. After all, you never know when you’ll see something worthy of memorializing. But a consequence of my “shoot now, ask questions later” attitude is that memory cards fill up very fast!
A while back, I decided to handle the problem once and for all, and got a 32GB SD card. Most of the time only about 8 GB of it is really full, but sometimes if I shoot a lot of video clips, it can get higher.
This has caused several issues. iPhoto began crashing on trying to display the new images when I connected the camera directly. Switching to a card reader, the iMac (running Leopard) still had trouble sometimes mounting the SD card on the desktop. There were so many files in one folder, I was nearing some kind of ultimate limit for the OS.
Continue reading“Another meeting room running” meeting error in DimDim meetings
I’ve been using DimDim lately to share screens and host impromptu meetings. I recently hosted a three-person meeting for the purpose of screensharing an application we were all working on. Previous meetings of this type had gone well, but this time we kept having problems with “Another meeting room running” errors which prevented screensharing.
Continue readingTroubleshooting “No Service” messages on iPhone, part 2
There has been so much interest recently in my post on the No Service error message that appears to be plaguing particularly 3G iPhones, that it seemed appropriate to put up a more detailed summary of possible fixes for the “No Service” message on the iPhone.
Below is a summary of all the suggestions from the many comments on the original post (thanks to all the commenters!) and from several sites around the web.
Continue readingMail.app generates multiple copies of email in “Recovered Messages” folder
After upgrading to SnowLeopard a new bug in Mail.app has appeared. About once a week, one or more emails will decide to reproduce themselves hundreds of times in a folder called “Recovered Messages”. If that email has a large attachment, it can quickly fill up the limited space allotted to my email account.
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Can’t export more than 30 seconds of Windows Media from Quicktime
In the last year or so, I got used to being able to export to just about any format from Quicktime Pro using Quicktime Conversions. When I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I installed Flip4Mac’s Snow
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