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Running Always Run Menu: World > Always Run Key Command: PC Ctrl-R , Mac Cmd-R) Run only when you want to Enable the Advanced menu Key Command: PC Ctrl+Alt+D or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D Mac: Option+Control+D Enable Double
Continue readingMy ipod classic died again the other day, after being alternately frozen and baked in my car for several months. I don’t believe in coddling my appliances. I tried the frozen ipod reset trick, and
Continue readingThe other day I pulled my iphone out and nearly dropped it! It was burning hot and there was a big red low battery indicator in the middle of the screen! I had charged it only a couple of hours earlier so it was not likely that normal use had caused this condition.
I was in a wireless area, and had been checking my gmail earlier. The little activity indicator at top left was twirling.
A search through Apple support and discussions led me to this article. It seems that the iphone can get stuck in a checking-mail loop, particularly on certain IMAP accounts like gMail.
An Apple support article also says that a flaw in the Mail application in v. 1.1.3 causes it to persistently generate server activity even when it is not checking mail per user settings. Persistent mail checking can quickly drain the battery.
Continue readingIf 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 readingA customer’s course was crashing Internet Explorer when a popup window script executed. It turns out that the name of the new window contained a space. This didn’t bother Safari or Firefox, but Internet Explorer
Continue readingI have about 5 email accounts, and use Mail.app to manage them. Recently I started seeing this obnoxious and cryptic message when trying to send from anything but my att.yahoo. account.
The server response was: From: address not verified; see http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/manage/sendfrom-07.html
Use the pop-up menu below to try a different outgoing mail server. All messages will use this server until you quit Mail or change your network settings
My 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
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