Solving technology problems, one at a time
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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If you are trying to edit .htaccess files or other invisible files through the GUI, or using Fetch’s automatic linkage with BBedit, you will need to show hidden files. Open the terminal and type: defaults
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
When 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
Continue readingThanks to Dave Taylor, I now have the PandaCam widget visible on my desktop all the time. No need to hit F12 to see if the Pandas are doing something cute. Per Dave’s instructions, just
Continue readingSometimes, when attempting to empty the trash in OS X, you will get an error “This operation could not be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.” The best
Continue readingResolving a “Disk cannot be read from or written to” error with an iPod used between two computers.
Continue readingI recently got a new Mac, and wanted to use the iTunes music folder I had been using with the old one. The iTunes Music folder is on a firewire drive, so I plugged that
Continue readingI got a new 30″ Cinema display, and the high resolution setting is wonderful for working, but the system fonts are too small in some cases for my tired eyes. Here’s how to increase their
Continue readingI realized at home I could not see .htaccess files or any files beginning with “.” when using Fetch 4.0.3 for OSX, although using the same version at work I could. Haven’t solved the “why”
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