Solving technology problems, one at a time
If you add screenshot images to a Word or Powerpoint document on a Mac, by either dragging them onto the page or pasting them in, chances are they will not be visible on a PC.
Continue readingMy G5 at the office is running Tiger, and is on a Windows network. I had several printers set up to use, but one day they all simply disappeared from my print dialogs!
When I tried to add them again, the error “server-error-service-unavailable” would come up.
I found a solution here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107054
Corporate mail servers often used SSL certificates, and sometimes these certificates expire. At that point you may start getting “Certificate couldn’t be read” errors in Apple’s Mail.app.
According to Apple, permanently accepting a self-signed SSL certificate may fix the problem.
If Safari gives you the following error “Client certificate rejected” and shows you a white page, try this. Open Keychain Access, find the expired certificate and delete it. There may be two certificates with the
Continue readingOver the last few days Mail.app started refusing to send my emails from any of my email accounts. I use only one smtp server for all the accounts: smtp.att.yahoo.com, on port 25 with non SSL
Continue readingA rare but irritating problem I’ve had with Safari for a couple of years now is its habit of suddenly no longer responding to mouse clicks. It simply stops dead: you can’t click links, type
Continue readingOn an underpowered G5 iMac running OS X 10.4, I spent a lot of time troubleshooting performance issues. One of them was the “spinning beachball” effect, where some process would take over for a moment, resulting in everything else hanging until it released some CPU.
On at least one of these instances, launching Activity Monitor showed that Sync Server was taking up 100% of the CPU every few minutes.
Apparently this is a common problem on both 10.4 and 10.5:
SyncServer Problem Post on Mac Forums
Continue readingI just walked in on a Monday morning to find the Power Mac G5 off. Pressing the power button did nothing, although the power light was on. Pulling the plug for a moment did nothing
Continue readingI pulled my iPhone out of its cradle to make a call today, but my hands were damp. As you probably know the iPhone’s touch screen won’t respond if you are wearing gloves, have damp
Continue readingWhen viewing items in column view, you have the option to display a Preview column, where a preview image of your image or movie will be displayed, along with some file info. Sometimes, viewing that
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