Solving technology problems, one at a time
On upgrading to Snow Leopard, a little window with a progress bar started appearing: “Flip4Mac importing”. No reference to what was being imported or why. This has apparently been fixed in Flip4Mac WMV 2.3.0.11-Beta. It’s
Continue readingIf your Mac refuses to go into Firewire mode, check your keyboard! Chances are, it is plugged into your monitor. Plug it directly into the computer (you’ll probably have to dig out your old USB
Continue readingIf the scratch disk used by Final Cut Pro cuts out in the middle of an export, Final Cut Pro becomes unstable: the next time you try to launch it, it will crash on startup.
Continue readingNew Iomega drives ship with NTFS filesystems, formatted for MSDOS. They must be reformatted to work with Mac OS X. However when attempting to format these drives you may get this error: “Partition size not
Continue readingA new problem that’s been plaguing my Mac these days is that the keyboard sometimes stops working, but only in the Finder. In all the other applications, it remains functional. I use a Wacom tablet,
Continue readingI’ve been downloading disk image files (.dmg) containing Mac utilities and applications with no problem for years, but all of a sudden, a particular update .dmg always downloads in a corrupted form. I’ve been trying
Continue readingA while back, my iPhone stopped ringing while locked. It didn’t seem to matter what settings I used, it simply would not ring. Calls were being missed, so I finally decided to look into it.
Continue readingIf you do a lot of research, like me, you may have a desktop full of PDF’s all named with such informative filenames as “c_dat09.pdf.” I spent a lot of time futilely trying to organize them along with their notes and citations, so it was a revelation to come across the application Papers.
I took a chance a few weeks ago and purchased the “MacHeist” bundle, mainly because I wanted the PhoneView application that lets you get at your iPhone images and music directly, and the cost is very low for all those applications.
MacHeist III is a bundle of 15 little utilities and applications for the Mac, many of which are surprisingly useful and well-written. One of the nicest surprises was an app called “Times”. Times is just a lowly RSS reader, but it does RSS with more style and readability than anything else I’ve seen yet.
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If you are having problems sending mail from the iPhone, try the following. Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars Under Accounts, click the account you are having trouble sending mail with. Scroll down to Outgoing Mail
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