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.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I had this same problem with Contacts [only].

Stephanie's post in #3 above worked for me also. I had tried a number of steps in the Apple forums.

My mistake, I believe, is in my reluctance to replace the MobileMe data in the cloud with the data that was on my Mac Mini [Snow Leopard] (my "sync/push server"). The Mac Pro (Leopard) silently stopped synching Contacts with the rest of my stuff - iPhone, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro.

Using Stephanie's one minute suggestion I have resolved the problem. Had that not worked then I'd have had to run through the full solution in this blog.

Thanks very much all. It has saved me days of grief :-)

Transcending CSS

Great book, helped my CSS a whole lot.

Watch that trailing slash

I am lost, I noticed google webmaster tools has me indexed with the trailing slash half of the time and because I am using wordpress on a windows server I am having a hard time fixing the issue. So I am trying to figure out if I should (for SEO purposes) use the slash even though none of my backlinks point that way.
Any help on this would be much appreciated.
thanks

Mail 10.6 “Copy Address” fix

@Alexander MacDougall: did you copy the whole command?

defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO

The file is located in /usr/bin/defaults which should be in your path. Try,

/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO

(all on the same line)

Mail 10.6 “Copy Address” fix

When I do this I get a message that says "command not found". Suggestions?

I ♥ my {international} Kindle

@Mary: the only way to activate your Kindle (International version) if you are out of the US is to use Audible's File Manager software.

The caveat is that it runs only on Windows, so if you are using a Mac, you'll need to run it under Parallels or VMWare.

The problem is that web browsing is deactivated (restricted) out of the US, so that the Kindle can't reach Audible's servers for activation.

More info on the Kindle's forum http://ro.ess.li/kindle/audible/

I ♥ my {international} Kindle

Great to find this blog! I am also trying to install an audio Kindle book for my daughter-- suggestions, advice??

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

@steve I would definitively get a Mophie Juice Pack Air if I was you.

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

ok i have a iphone3g and take alot of pictures but keep my phone in my pocket at school an dont want to get cought.overall my batter always dies because im on the bus for an hour while listening to music and texting and playing games what one would you buy?

Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

Thanks for the great info. On 10/30/09 I downloaded all the required Canon drivers and applications to use Pixma MP980 in Snow Leopard.

The Canon page is quite confusing, with many different software packages. I called Canon tech support (1-800-OK-CANON), and they guided me through the selection of which packages I needed to print from/scan from/scan to Pixma MP980 Snow Leopard.

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

@grj I'm not sure, I need to test a border case such as the one you mention.

Try contacting the author, he might have an answer?

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

@Doug I believe the only one that could be compatible with a car mount woud be the FastMac. But then it would depend on the form factor of the car mount.

The FastMac mounts with the iPhone in a Dock.

The Mophie's lack the iPod connector.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@Michael you're welcome - glad it worked out for you :)

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

Hi,
I have an iPhone 3GS and am considering buying an external battery pack for it. From what I've read above it appears that the Mophie Juice Pack Air is about 2 ounces, while the Mophie Juice Pack is about 3 ounces, and the FastMac IV is about 4 ounces. I don't own any of these prodcts, yet, but don't feel that the weight factor is significant for me. I wish Apple built the iPhone with a faster CPU and more RAM and the ability to handle media on the Adobe Flash Player, thus justifying the need for more "horsepower under the hood."
I am concerned about safety of my 32GB device and compatibility of any of these three batteries with a car mount.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

thanks a lot for your writedown, worked perfect for me!

Michael, Hamburg

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

How does Smartsleep react to a situation when you close your Mac at say 22% battery power and let it closed for a weekend? Is it that smart to wake up and hibernate, or does the battery run out of power?
I'm just considerig an install. Thanks!

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

Installing SmartSleep on my Dell Mini 9 (10.5.8) fixed its sleep problem :)

Spaces matter in IE 7's conditional statements

The last option by keed worked for me as well. The two blank lines made the cond. comment lines disappear. Thanks a lot!

Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

Found a good list of things REMOVED from Snow Leopard maintained by Jesper:
http://waffle.wootest.net/2009/09/05/removed-snow-leopard/

Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

@W Boston: you're right. Rogue Amoeba maintains a list of their 10.6 compatible applications online at http://www.rogueamoeba.com/status/

Compatibility for AudioHijack Pro is "coming" (No Instant Hijack).

Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

My AudiaHijack Pro was not compatible and wasn’t upgraded, in fact on your list of Snow Leopard Compatibility List. apps it indicated it wasn’t compatible and an upgrade was forth coming. Also Snow Leopard didn’t create a root folder to indicate which apps weren’t compatible. I discover those apps when I use them ie. . . TuneTools . . ..

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

@Prashant: no, I do carry it around when I travel for longer than a day. It weights 115g vs 56g for the Juice Pack Air.

Up to each and everyone to figure out if the difference is significative…
;)

iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV

Very nice review david !

Is factmac so heavy u actually can't carry it around ?

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Just thought you'd like to know in case you want to revisit and review:
Recent Versions, Press Releases MobileSyncBrowser 3.0 is the latest and most advanced version of the iPhone backup utility. Reviews for MobileSyncBrowser have been consistently positive, and when a user encounters a glitch, MSB's developer, Vaughn S. Cordero, avails himself by phone or email to help the customer step by step. Who uses MSB? Setting aside the argument that it is better to have a backup and not need it, than to need it and not have it, the original MSB users ranged from business executives who need to keep track of and produce hard-copy evidence of their communications, to the iPhone owner whose device was stolen or broken, to concerned parents wanting to keep track of their children's online contacts and friendships, and there's a commercial version being developed for grand-scale use regarding levels of information gathering, geared towards people who need MSB for legal proceedings or investigations. MobileSyncBrowser 3.0, available adds compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0 and was completely rewritten to provide better performance and enhanced stability. Technical Contact: Vaughn S.Cordero, email audiobinder at mac dot com
MobileSyncBrowser 3.1b1 This upgraded version of the application is available as pre-release software and has been said to be "better, faster, and more stable". It appeared barely five weeks after the release of MobileSyncBrowser 3.0. This latest edition of MSB, provides a multi-threaded experience, and is noticeable more stable and faster than the previous generations. MSB 3.1b1, marks a second milestone, leveraging the modularity to add background processing and caching so there's no waiting involved due to the extended scanning required for MSB Plus features. 3.1b1 also presents a cache file to the device backups which speeds subsequent visits to an unchanged backup; it alsoincludes fixes for cosmetic reasons and functional purposes. These include an improved handling of similar and alphanumeric addresses in the SMS Convo Lists; improved navigation on systems with 9+ backups where portions of the Categories list would scroll up out of view making them seem "unavailable"; the user should know that single click, double click and alt-click actions have different responses and a little experimentation is required. MobileSyncBrowser (MSB) 3.1b1 has been tested for iPhone OS 3.1b2 and iTunes 8.2.1 compatibility. An important thing to remember is that, as a prerelease software, 3.1b1 could behave in surprising ways; users are encouraged to take sensible precautions before and while operating. The developer assumes no responsibility whatsoever for the use of prerelease software, so prospective clients should try out MSB before purchase in order to familiarize themselves with its interface, and ensure the application works for them. MSB 3.1b1 is stable and recommended for developers and general users who have specific issues with the current MSB. Feedback is always appreciated. Important note: 3.1 beta releases (e.g. 3.1b1) users should bear in mind that, as pre-release test copies, they are limited to running for a maximum of 15 days, when the next test cycle begins. If a user prefers the 3.1 versions, they should download release 3.1b2 currently on the beta page for MSB at http://mobilesyncbrowser.com/beta or download the current 3.0.11 release which does not have this testing limit.

Regina Spektor | Far

Kate Nash is actually a huge fan of Regina's and counts her as a major influence. I felt like sharing that. haha.. Check out Begin to Hope and Soviet Kitsch too!

and she's really awesome live. Good humored and very humble. :)

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

From the Public Relations Office of MobileSyncBrowser: As your website is in touch with the news about iPhone Technology and Applications, I'm writing to tell you about the release of MobileSync Browser (MSB) 3.0, as well as MSB 3.1b1, the exclusive pre-release version of this application.
MobileSyncBrowser is used to retrieve data automatically stored inside iTunes every time the iPhone was synchronized to the computer. MSB will recover all information, notes, contacts, call history and SMS messages, in case the device gets lost, broken or stolen. Visit MSB at: http://homepage.mac.com/vaughn/msync/
Users all over the world contact developer Vaughn S. Cordero to thank him and praise MSB for helping them evade the negative effects of losing all their information.
I'm attaching the press release and/or an informational document that outlines all the useful characteristics of MSB, now in its third generation. You are welcome to download the free trial; and please, would you kindly write a review or use the attached information to let your readers know about MobileSyncBrowser?
In addition to English, MSB includes Spanish, French and German support when it runs on systems in those languages. Be aware that MSB will work for iPhones in any language; however, the application contains those four to display the menus and the text. For instance, if you use MSB for an Italian iPhone, the information will display in Italian because MSB does not include that language support.
If you have questions or comments, please write back directly to Vaughn at audiobinder@mac.com, or reply to my email. Thank you for your help. -- Madeleine D. Quilichini, e: mad_copy@yahoo.com
MORE INFO:
Recent Versions, Press Releases MobileSyncBrowser 3.0 is the latest and most advanced version of the iPhone backup utility. Reviews for MobileSyncBrowser have been consistently positive, and when a user encounters a glitch, MSB's developer, Vaughn S. Cordero, avails himself by phone or email to help the customer step by step. Who uses MSB? Setting aside the argument that it is better to have a backup and not need it, than to need it and not have it, the original MSB users ranged from business executives who need to keep track of and produce hard-copy evidence of their communications, to the iPhone owner whose device was stolen or broken, to concerned parents wanting to keep track of their children's online contacts and friendships, and there's a commercial version being developed for grand-scale use regarding levels of information gathering, geared towards people who need MSB for legal proceedings or investigations. MobileSyncBrowser 3.0, available adds compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0 and was completely rewritten to provide better performance and enhanced stability. Technical Contact: Vaughn S.Cordero, email audiobinder at mac dot com
MobileSyncBrowser 3.1b1 This upgraded version of the application is available as pre-release software and has been said to be "better, faster, and more stable". It appeared barely five weeks after the release of MobileSyncBrowser 3.0. This latest edition of MSB, provides a multi-threaded experience, and is noticeable more stable and faster than the previous generations. MSB 3.1b1, marks a second milestone, leveraging the modularity to add background processing and caching so there's no waiting involved due to the extended scanning required for MSB Plus features. 3.1b1 also presents a cache file to the device backups which speeds subsequent visits to an unchanged backup; it alsoincludes fixes for cosmetic reasons and functional purposes. These include an improved handling of similar and alphanumeric addresses in the SMS Convo Lists; improved navigation on systems with 9+ backups where portions of the Categories list would scroll up out of view making them seem "unavailable"; the user should know that single click, double click and alt-click actions have different responses and a little experimentation is required. MobileSyncBrowser (MSB) 3.1b1 has been tested for iPhone OS 3.1b2 and iTunes 8.2.1 compatibility. An important thing to remember is that, as a prerelease software, 3.1b1 could behave in surprising ways; users are encouraged to take sensible precautions before and while operating. The developer assumes no responsibility whatsoever for the use of prerelease software, so prospective clients should try out MSB before purchase in order to familiarize themselves with its interface, and ensure the application works for them. MSB 3.1b1 is stable and recommended for developers and general users who have specific issues with the current MSB. Feedback is always appreciated.

Quadcam for iPhone OS 3.0 still unavailable

Apparently, EasyCam and CameraZoom updates have appeared on the Store. Let's hope Quadcam will be soon to follow.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Hooray! Also for me Stefanie's quick solution (in posting #3) was enough to fix my problem. I encourage others to try that one out.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Bless you Stephanie! Weeks of stress, resolved in a quick minute.

Norah Jones | Not too late

yes, i know, it's an incredible album. my favorite is the last song "not too late". it's just so stunningly beautiful.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Hooray! Stefanie's quick solution (in posting #3) was enough to fix my problem. I encourage others to try that one out.

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@chrisb63: yes, Swisscom has published the following:

Use your iPhone 3G as a modem.

Thanks to tethering, you will also be able to use your iPhone 3G as a modem for your notebook from 3 July 2009. Billing for data transmission will be based on the inclusive data volume of your surf subscription.

For frequent users, an additional data option with unlimited data volume**** (use in Switzerland) will be offered for CHF 59.- per month from the beginning of August 2009.

As of 3 July, you will be able to configure your iPhone 3G for tethering via iTunes free of charge.

**** In order to maintain service quality for all customers, Swisscom will reduce transfer speed if a customer exceeds 10GB in one month or will take other appropriate action. If there are signs of such activity, Swisscom reserves the right to exclude the subscription from normal private usage. Roaming charges are incurred for use abroad.

http://www.swisscom.ch/res/internet/mobilessurfen/iphone/index.htm?languageId=en#tethering
http://www.swisscom.ch/res/internet/mobilessurfen/iphone/index.htm?languageId=fr#tethering

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

Do we know by now, how is this billed ?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

I've got this running on a 3G using the site you described. I'm finding however that tethered over USB the iPhone does not keep its charge level when using the internet but drains pretty quickly. This makes it of pretty limited use to me.

Anybody else have this problem or a solution?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@chrisb63 You're welcome. It works on non jailbroken phones. It is just a new set of settings.

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

thanks for the tip.
Just to make sure, this will work on a 3G iPhone not jailbroken ?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@Coup's This is not clear yet, but I suspect (I hope) your quota will be used prior to billing you extra costs.

I believe this is what Swisscom does with their WiFi HotSpots. They deduct the used bandwidth from your quota before billing you for the remaining usage.

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

Hi,
Somebody knows if Swisscom will account the data used using tethering in our 250 Mb quota or will we have to pay extra bucks?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@andre Glad it worked for you.
Feel free to add it to your weblog.
Thanks for asking.

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

Thanks for the great help... I mailed it and installed. Working great. I would like to know if I can add this info to my blog?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

@Christian Leu Oh, sorry about that. What browser (and version) are you using?

Welche Browser (und Version) verwenden Sie?

iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering

Bei mir funktionieren die Lightbox Pop-Ups mit den einzelnen Bildern leider nicht.

An evening with Violeta

I promise this is my last post for Mario Benedetti. The best obituary in English I found for him came from Cuba (!). Here is the link if you are sitll interested...

http://www.cubasi.cu/desktopdefault.aspx?spk=160&clk=236038&lk=2&ck=120702&spka=35

An evening with Violeta

Finally I managed to find some Mario Benedetti translations to English. I believe poems are impossible to translate, they only could be rewritten sometimes. But you can have a taste below.

M. Benedetti was exiled from Uruguay for many years since he was a strong critic of military dictatorship and of the influence of US on Latin America. What I loved about him is that he stayed being optimistic until the end of his life.

So, another poem, now in English.

Don´t Save Yourself

Mario Benedetti

Don't Save yourself,
Don´t be immobile
On the edge of the road,
Don't freeze the joy,
Don't love with reluctance,
Don't save yourself now
or ever,
Don't save yourself,
Don't fill with calm,
Don't reserve of the world
Just a calm place,
Don't let fall your lids
Heavy as trials,
Don´t speak without lips,
Don't fall asleep without sleepiness,
Don't think of you without blood,
Don't judge yourself without time.

But if in spite of everything
You cannot avoid it
And you freeze the joy,
And you love with reluctance,
And you save yourself now,
And you full with calm,
And you reserve of the world
Just a calm place,
And you let fall your lids
Heavy as trials,
And you speak without lips,
And you fall asleep without sleepiness,
And you think yourself without blood,
And you judge yourself without time,
And you are immobile
On the edge of the road,
And you save yourself,
Then
Don't stay with me.

An evening with Violeta

Thanks for the poem Lavinia, it is beautiful even with my faint notions of Spanish.

It is all the more dramatic in view of the context.

An evening with Violeta

Forgot to tell that Mario Benedetti died the day before I posted this last comment.

An evening with Violeta

David, I found this today (tomorrow for you since I am 5 hours after you).

I would never ever be able to translate this to English nor to French, nor to any other language, but I just hope you can follow these words in Spanish. But definitely it is a turning point... It is like a bottle in an ocean..

Title: In defense of happiness

Mario Benedetti

Defender la alegría como una trinchera
defenderla del escándalo y la rutina
de la miseria y los miserables
de las ausencias transitorias
y las definitivas

defender la alegría como un principio
defenderla del pasmo y las pesadillas
de los neutrales y de los neutrones
de las dulces infamias
y los graves diagnósticos

defender la alegría como una bandera
defenderla del rayo y la melancolía
de los ingenuos y de los canallas
de la retórica y los paros cardiacos
de las endemias y las academias

defender la alegría como un destino
defenderla del fuego y de los bomberos
de los suicidas y los homicidas
de las vacaciones y del agobio
de la obligación de estar alegres

defender la alegría como una certeza
defenderla del óxido y de la roña
de la famosa pátina del tiempo
del relente y del oportunismo
de los proxenetas de la risa

defender la alegría como un derecho
defenderla de dios y del invierno
de las mayúsculas y de la muerte
de los apellidos y las lástimas
del azar
y también de la alegría

The MacBook Wheel

niche information

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@Chad: If I understand you correctly, you need to synchronise your Mac with the data on Mobile Me, replacing the relevant data on your computer (calendar, bookmarks or whatever) with the data in the cloud.

You should find the information you require on Apple's website:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1932
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/setup/mac/

Hope this helps.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I have had the same problem with a small twist. All of my data is in the cloud on mobile me. There is no copy on my computer. How can I make a backup off of mobile me and then work off of the backup to my local machine. I am running 10.4.11 on one laptop and tower and 10.5.6 on my mac mini. HELP!!!!!!

What are web standards?

u r blog Is very nice

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

@Yannis I'm not sure it'll save battery, but your MBP should go to sleep much faster when you close the screen ;)

Get your MacBook to sleep smart

Hey David, thank you for the tip! I just installed it on my MBP... Hope it will help me save my battery...

An evening with Violeta

Thanks for your input lavinia :)

An evening with Violeta

And here you find the translation to English

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/benedetti080207p.html

And here you can listen the song composed by JM Serrat with Benedetti's lyric (El sur tambien existe)

http://www.jmserrat.com/serrat/letras/elsur.html

An evening with Violeta

David, I am posting a poem from an Uruguaian writer which describes perfectly, in latin spanish the Latin (South) American spirit.

Thanks for saying all you wrote about Violeta Parra and the Spanish from Latin America. We are deeply touched.

Lavinia

EL SUR TAMBIEN EXISTE

Mario Benedetti

Con su ritual de acero
sus grandes chimeneas
sus sabios clandestinos
su canto de sirenas
sus cielos de neón
sus ventanas navideñas
su culto a dios padre
y de las charreteras
con sus llaves del reino
el norte es el que ordena
pero aquí abajo abajo
el hambre disponible
recorre el fruto amargo
de lo que otros deciden
mientras que el tiempo pasa
y pasan los desfiles
y se hacen otras cosas
que el norte no prohíbe
con su esperanza dura
el sur también existe

con sus predicadores
sus gases que envenenan
su escuela de chicago
sus dueños de la tierra
con sus trapos de lujo
y su pobre osamenta
sus defensas gastadas
sus gastos de defensa
son su gesta invasora
el norte es el que ordena

pero aquí abajo abajo
cada uno en su escondite
hay hombres y mujeres
que saben a qué asirse
aprovechando el sol
y también los eclipses
apartando lo inútil
y usando lo que sirve
con su fe veterana
el sur también existe

con su corno francés
y su academia sueca
su salsa americana
y sus llaves inglesas
con todos sus misiles
y sus enciclopedias
su guerra de galaxias
y su saña opulenta
con todos sus laureles
el norte es el que ordena

pero aquí abajo abajo
cerca de las raíces
es donde la memoria
ningún recuerdo omite
y hay quienes se desmueren
y hay quienes se desviven
y así entre todos logran
lo que era un imposible
que todo el mundo sepa
que el sur también existe.

Mobile Aperture

My strategy is to not be mad after Joe Schorr and the Aperture team for taking so long to release something that actually works for other than the independant wedding photographer. Then, go with the flow and consider — unless you're an embedded photog reporting from Kabul — that you're better off using your eyes and lenses while on the road instead of spending time pushing pixels on a screen.

My library lives in my studio and is very happy there. Abroad, I carry a Hyperdrive to backup my cards and that's about it. If I'm on assignment and need to shoot tethered, I create a specific Aperture project then copy it back to my main library when back in the studio (drag and drop works well for this).

Traveling with your entire photo library is like carrying around your entire music library, will you listen to it all?

My 2 cents...

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

@enrique: thanks!!

You are right to point this out. I left it out of the above tutorial beacuse none of its URLs appear in the address bar.

I believe you could symlink a`mt-static` folder into your blog's folder, and it should work just fine.

The configuration takes relative paths too (you don't have to specify a full URL):

StaticWebPath  /mt-static/

So creating a symlink like,

ln -s /somewhere/on/your/disk/mt-static/ /your/blog/mt-static/

should do the trick.

WRT StyleCatcher, I'm not sure about it's default behaviour. I'll give it a look.

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

Thanks for the tutorial David, it helped me a lot.
However, how do you deal with the mt-static folder. Now that it is symlinked in the cgi-bin folder, It seems like I can't point to it from my new domain (I'm using MT's StyleCatcher which creates a @import in my CSS to a style inside mt-static.).

Using your technique, should one have a separate mt-static folder per domain/blog? Or could one simply create a symlink of the mt-static folder somewhere out of the cgi-bin folder? Not sure if I'm very clear...

Thanks again! // e

Animoto for the iPhone

Great site, i like soo much all that blog.. make me the inspiration for make my own.

Thanks

www.iphonextrem.com

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

@Culture Snob: try this one on MacOSXHints:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2001110610290643

this weblog entry:
http://www.cocoatech.com/weblog/archives/2007/04/30/aliases_symboli

or the manual page:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/ln.1.html

Cheers

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

Never mind. I think I figured it out.

Thanks again for the tutorial.

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

Thanks for the tutorial. Is there any easy-to-understand tutorial on symlink that might make this a little more accessible to those of us who are petrified of the command line?

I've done clean tag-search URLs through .htaccess before, but with my current installation structure (domain1.com and domain2.com using an MT installation in user.host.com), the old rewrite rules don't seem to work. This looks to be a solution, but I'm not familiar with symlink.

Gap

Is the gap opening or closing? That is the question..

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@rik and @ Danielle I'm very happy it worked for you. I haven't run into any similar problems since - touch wood.

Thank you for letting my know :)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

woohoo!!! After trying other suggestions to no avail, I am extremely pleased to say that this fix did actually work for me. Thanks so much!

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Thank you!!! It solved a problem I had since months and Apple did not help at all.

Spaces matter in IE 7's conditional statements

I was going nuts as to why the conditional statement always ended in a comment line...
You made my day..
Thanxx amillion..

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Read http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627.

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

@Will: I believe they should work just fine :)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I have Greg's same exact problem. The good data is on mobileme and my iphone, with healthy syncing between the two. But my iCal in OS X 10.5.5 is way out of date and I'd just like to replace it with what's on mobileme. Yet I get the "inconsistent data" message when I try to reset data from mobileme. Annoying.

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

Great tutorial. I've got the same issue, a separate domain for a single MT install driving multiple blogs.

I want to your technique for one of the blogs I've got running, but don't want to break the others.

Say I've got Movable Type installed at:

http://mt.example.com/

publishing different blogs to different domains (all on the same server):

http://domain1.com/
http://domain2.com/
http://domain3.com/

If I create a symlink between...

mt.example.com/cgi-bin and domain1.com/cgi-bin

...what happens with the other domains that are referencing mt.example.com/cgi-bin? Will they still work as usual with the ugly urls or will they break?

Thanks.

What is your notepad bag?

@marco I actually bought it online directly from Timbuk2…

Checking their site showed a couple of shops in Geneva:

Andreas Guth - Stuff'
7 pl. du Bourg-de-Four
Geneva, 1204
Switzerland
+4122 311-1410

Horspiste SA Cycles et Sport
Rue des Rois 3
Geneve, 1204
Switzerland
+022 328 47 09

http://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/retail/retailer.htm

What is your notepad bag?

Maybe a silly question: where did you get your Timbuk2 bag? I read you're based in Geneva: is there any local retailer in town? I was not able to find the info on their web site...

VisualHub discontinued

open recource
http://www.davidroessli.com/logs/2008/10/visualhub_discontinued/index.html

A West African storytelling Sunday afternoon

Hi,

My name is Sandi and I'm working in association with Thumbplay.com, a leading online platform of mobile entertainment content that offers ringtones, wallpapers, games and text-based services through a membership-based, community experience.

I feel the information on your site you provide is very useful. I would love to know if you could link to our ringtone resource.

Best regards,
Sandi

VisualHub discontinued

I am sorry to hear it.
It is a good software. But now.......
I found another good
video converter for mac.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@David: I've updated the MobileMe System prefs several times ... I'm running 10.5.5. I've completely erased my iSync device list, as I no longer need to sync my trusty SE600i via Bluetooth (which was a painless and reliable process >_

Taking a superficial look at the solutions, my safest bet would be to copy --by hand-- my calendars and contact details from the phone to the iMac; as the trend in the posted solutions is to "sync from scratch" online from the "definitive" copy on the computer.

I'm also tempted to leave things as they are for the moment, as the iPhone/MobileMe relationship is so healthy. Not happy that my iMac can't join in as a third party!

Also, I may have to reinstall OSX --again-- as I've just finished trouble-shooting some nasty wireless networking problems. This may give me a clean slate once I re-establish my, my wife's files/account status etc.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

@Greg: strange. I have always had success in updating my Mac from the online (.Mac or MobileMe now) version, if the latter isn't corrupted. Which isn't the case if your iPhone and MobileMe account are syncing okay.

Have you updated the .Mac System Preference? It should read MobileMe now (Are you running Leopard? 10.5.x?)

There were some issues with 10.4 (Tiger) and MobileMe syncing - not sure if they are resolved now.

Not much help - sorry…

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I've got a similar problem: just the other way around.

I have erased all the contact and calendar data on my computer and am trying to update my iMac's iCal and Address Book from Mobile Me. My iPhone and Mobile Me are syncing wonderfully; I consider them both up-to-date. Any clues?

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@Anila: I'm not sure. Does it not charge when connected directly to the USB port of a computer? Or via the power adapter?

Try swapping it with a recent iPod's power adapter, or try another cable to make sure the problem doesn't come from the accessories rather than from the phone itself.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Hi David,
thank you for posting this information .

I am having a weird problem. my phone was unlocked to use in Switzerland. recently I've connected iphone to mac and it installed some software.
it was working fine and after a week when I 've to charge it , it was not taking the power(my phone is not getting charged). You have any idea how to overcome this problem?

thank you..

Watch that trailing slash

Really nice tutorial. Really love your blog and i'm gonna subscribe to the RSS feed.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I've got six devices (two each Macs, iPhones and iPod touches) I like (have to) keep in sync and since Sept 2 syncs for calendars and contacts have been failing (silently). Since I discovered this three days ago, Apple support has been getting nowhere. While waiting for them to do "research" I've been doing my own and found this work around which matches my pronlem. There may be a better solution but I am not sure Apple Support will be offering it soon. I'll post the results.
Cheers

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Glad it worked out for you @Rob
:)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Yeah baby! After weeks of monkeying around with this and getting nowhere with Apple Support... This fixed my issue!
Thanks a million!

iPod Touch first impressions

@Jose I agree. Actually, with all the problems the iPhone 3G is plagued with, it's a better alternative. Both in terms of battery life and overall stability.

If you are happy with your current cellphone, and don't have sync issues, stick with it and buy an iPod Touch.
(who's price might significatively drop this month if you believe the rumours).

Not to mention, the iPhone probably is the worse cameraphone I have ever seen.

iPod Touch first impressions

I just recently bought an iPod Touch, and while it isn't the newest gadget on the block anymore, it is still one of the best. I love the touch screen as well as the easy to use features. The wiFi aspect is also phenomenal.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

This worked, and I was finally able to sync my damned calendars after following these instructions. Thanks!

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Installing BSD Subsystem crashed my installer and I cannot use it any more. Would you please have a solution.

Adam

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Apparently, Orange _doesn't support EDGE_ on their network, so forget about the above settings.

Sorry about that - I was sure it worked though.

10.5.2 freezes

This is Paolo from Padova, italy, and yes, we have same problem here. It just happens to me when MBP runs on batteries. When it's powered, no probs at all. I'm running 10.5.3 now, and thinking to switch back to Tiger.

Oddly, with Windows XP (on Bootcamp) this problem doesn't pop up, either on batteries or not. So it MUST be a software problem right? No way I'm gonna use WinXP though, I prefer to run on powered :)

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@Steve: try the following:

APN address: event.swisscom.ch
Username:
Password:
MMSC: http://mms.natel.ch:8079
Proxyserveradress: 192.168.210.2:8080

Found on http://www.modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php/Carrier_APN_Settings#Swisscom

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@Steve - sorry, I didn't read properly.

Hmm.. it sounds like an operator setting to me. The first time I fired up my iPhone, I received the following from Swisscom:

Les paramètres de votre portable ont été modifiés. Les MMS sont sauvegardés sur www.swisscom-mobile.ch/mms. Swisscom vous souhaite du plaisir avec MMS.

Nevertheless, configuring Swirly with the above parameters worked for me. The upper right icon must go green before you can send or receive anything. But that must be the case if you can send…

Very weird indeed. Sorry, but I'm not of much help here.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Hey David.... I am with Swisscom... like i Say... everything is as above... just the fact I can only send and not receive is weird...

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@steve check your MMS settings. These can be tricky. What operator are you using?

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Hey I configured my iPhone for mms as said above... and i have Swirly mms installed... however It doesnt recieve them...

I just get a message from Swisscom telling me I have a mms and a link to a website pickup....

Any help to help me recieve them through Swirly would be good...

steve :s

10.5.2 freezes

Hello,

my machine (french):

Informations matériel :

Nom du modèle : MacBook Pro 15"
Identifiant du modèle : MacBookPro2,2
Nom du processeur : Intel Core 2 Duo
Vitesse du processeur : 2.16 GHz
Nombre de processeurs : 1
Nombre total de cœurs : 2
Cache de niveau 2 : 4 Mo
Mémoire : 1 Go
Vitesse du bus : 667 MHz
Version de la ROM de démarrage : MBP22.00A5.B07
Version SMC : 1.12f5
Numéro de série : 3R70367FW0G
Capteur de mouvement brusque :
État : Activé

Same problems, sometimes, when seeing a film: the computer completely freeze (no trackpad neither keyboard).
Reading audio: a small part of the file loop playing like a record scraching, the only solution: hard restart.

I am musician and perform for hundreds people:I buy a PC and run under Vista?

Thank for advices

Jerome.

Thin line

I know that feeling too well.

Be careful not to get hooked to it though. Adrenaline can be addictive as well as destructive..

Happy birthday Emma
:)

10.5.2 freezes

I am a 10 day new switcher (brand new combo-drive Mac Mini)having the same problems - I have 10.5.2 and this issue started when the the graphics update was installed.

Transcending CSS

Very good table less design , clean CSS - Ideal web 2.0 design I really like it.. Web Designer Ireland
I am a freelance web designer offering affordable services to clients in UK and Ireland.

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Just wanted to add that these instructions also cured my sync woes as well. I have an iMac and recently also purchased a MacBook. Some stuff synced over to the MacBook but some did not, specifically bookmarks and calendars. After following these instructions now everything is merrily syncing along. Thanks for the great post!

Getting GrowlMail to work

Just found this thread and downloaded Growl Beta 1.1.3 onto my G4 PowerBook running OS X 10.5.2 and Growlmail now works perfectly. Just installing on my iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) with OS X 10.5.2 running and no apparent inconsistencies with Mail.

Will report back if things do not work to plan. Much obliged for the advice given here.

MacManiac

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Thank you :)

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@djeni the idea is to remove the file named "com.micromat.Syphone.plist" from your ~/Library/Preferences folder before launching the application.

Yes MSB does ask for a donation before letting you backup anything. But it's worth it. Just give him what you think the application deserves. It's a great little application, stable and does just the job. It exports the data in a tab separated format for reuse in a spreadsheet or by any other programme.

Check out also Ecamm's MegaPhone which lets you access your iPod Touch/iPhone directly. You can also use it to export SMSs, call log etc. I find it ideal to transfer the images I received by MMS from my iPhone to my Mac. Brilliant.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Hello,
thanks for all great information :) I have this problem with Syphone you mentioned, it crashed on launch. What do you mean with "remove the preferences before launching the application". And MobileSyncBrowser asked me to make a donation befor he allows me to backup anything.
Djeni

Getting GrowlMail to work

http://digg.com/apple/GrowlMail_and_Leopard_not_getting_along_Here_s_a_solution

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@camilo check my post above. Just after the EDGE configuration section or visit iClarified for information on how to proceed to install BSD Subsystem.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

thnks.

I tried installing mobilefinder etc but says error: needs BSD subsystem package. install first. any ideas? thanks camilo

Belleruche | Turnable Soul Music

Jamaica embraces white singer. Download free music at avaleigh.co.uk

10.5.2 freezes

I have been having the same issues.

I replaced my MBP battery (under warranty), and also took out what I thought was a bad stick of ram.

I thought it was fixed, and I ran on battery all night last night, with no issues.

Tonight, I froze up twice while running the battery.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@ksharp: your guess is mine ;)

(but I agree on NextWay - it rocks)

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

I had a flawless experience when ordering one from NextWay (http://www.nextway.ch). It worked out of the box. I think they must have done most of the patching themselves (adn added a button to their online store on the desktop).
:)
Highly recommended.

PS: any idea when will the 3G model will ship and will it be available in Switzerland?

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

@Adam: thanks! Yes there was invisible trailing characters..
and yes, I suppose I should publish this post in French too.

I'll give it a think.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

David,

Thanks for gathering all this info in one place (and for writing it in English..).

I noticed that the link to MobileSync Browser is broken. I think there is some extra characters at the end that shouldn't be there.

Thought I'd let you know.

10.5.2 freezes

David: I'm having a similar problem but from my crude diagnosis, it's not a "HARDWARE problem" I have boot camp installed on my MBP 15" and I booted into Windows XP and it seems to run fine off of the battery.

I don't know if this helps you but I figured that I'd throw that tidbit of information into the cosmos and see what happens.

My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland

Mine is called a "phone" and I just want it to work out of the box. :)

Getting GrowlMail to work

@Dev Gupta: Err.. I'm not sure what the default values are.

If you want to disable the use of Bundles within Mail, set the value of EnableBundles to 0 (zero) and I believe the second variable BundleCompatibilityVersion concerns the version of Mail (1, 2 or 3).

Getting GrowlMail to work

Can anyone tell me what are the default settings. I would like to un-do this:

defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2

10.5.2 freezes

I have been experiencing the sudden freeze up of Leopard ever since upgrading to 10.5.2 back in February. After reviewing the kernel crisis log with a fella at the Apple genius bar at our local store, I was told my MacBook Pro probably has a problem with the ram. I installed new ram and still have the same symptoms, e.g. random freeze ups that occur sometimes when I'm first bootin up, other times after several hours of use.

I wonder if Apple really knows there is a problem with Leopard vis-a-vis MacBook Pro freez ups and Leopard 10.5.2. Can anyone confirm a documented conversation with Apple's technical staff on this issue?

If not, can someone advise as to how to go about getting in touch with the Apple technical people?

10.5.2 freezes

I am a 7 day old Mac virgin. Top of the range MAC BOOK PRO and 3 freezes - this bug is all over the web (90,000 + hits if you search for 10.5.2 freezes)..

Seems this problem had been around since late Jan (10.5.2 and Graphics updates may be the cause).

3 calls to Apple support and they acknowledge a problem, one guy confessed they (Apple) are not near a fix and stumped.. SAD..

10.5.2 freezes

The random shutdowns seem related to a battery problem. The problem disappeared after switching to a new battery.

Fingers crossed, I haven't experienced a freeze after reverting back to the factory memory modules.

iPhoned 10 years after

Waow - thanks :)
Hey, don't you want to keep it? It's a collector…

10.5.2 freezes

Things are getting WORSE.

My MacBook Pro not only freezes when running on battery with Airport WiFi enabled, it now randomly shutdowns. Bang. Just like if you'd pulled the plug from a desktop machine.

I reinstalled a fresh copy of 10.5, and updated to 10.5.2 with the latest Security Updates and Airport patches.

At reboot, the system logs show:

Mar 18 21:31:25 cinnamon kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 0

The freezes generated a cause 3 at reboot,

Mar 18 21:31:25 cinnamon kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

My patience has almot ran out. Just as my trust in this computer.

The thread on Apple Discussions is getting longer and longer…

iPhoned 10 years after

Still have a working one, perfect and no damages on the display.

When's you bday? =P

iPhoned 10 years after

You bet ;)

I would have loved a StarTAC… I keep an eye open on eBay - but they are rare and few apart…
:/

iPhoned 10 years after

Nokia lover then..
My first was a Swatch one, heavy and huge filled with green led.
Then always Motorola (8200, 8400, Star Tac, M60, V300, Peeble and now Ming) with two extras: Ericsson T68i and Sony Ericsson something-model, the one with the oled display outside.

A hystory in phones... what a time =)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

I was just running into the same problem but after reading this post I was able to fix it in 1 minute.

I simply re-created the calendar data from my main machine (which holds the most up to date calendars) overwriting the old calendar data on .Mac. I just used the regular advanced feature for that. Afterwards I was able to sync the re-written calender data onto my MacBook PRO.

While this may not work for everybody it is a fast thing to try before you hit the command line purging this manually.

Hope this may be helpful for some
Stefanie

Getting GrowlMail to work

A nice way to change your plist files is with Pref Setter.
Then you can see what your actually changing and easily re-change it you want.

However, I did this

defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2

and my Growlmail still dosn't work. Its not in the System Prefs > Growl > Application, but it does show up in the mail application. No notification, though. Any other ideas? Thanks!

10.5.2 freezes

As this issue is growing, an interesting fix was posted on Apple Discussions which you might want to try if you are running into this problem:

Steve Eugene posted the following:

This is a HARDWARE problem!
After playing around with removing the battery and noticing that this often returned functionality to the keyboard I surmised that this had some sort of physical aspect.
Sure enough, there is a section of copper colored tape/wiring exposed in the batter slot that is slightly bowed where it's smallest.
When I depressed this with my finger tip on this portion to basically flatten it out flush against the housing; I found that all functionality was restored!

As amazing as it sounds, it has actually worked for a number of readers who were suffering from this issue.

Check out the ful post with images at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1365569&tstart=60

Trusting a Certificate with Keychain Access

@Stuart Err.. I don't know. I suggest you check the ADC Reference Library at http://developer.apple.com/.

Start maybe by checking out the "Getting Started with Security" section at http://tinyurl.com/yqcjlo

Hope this helps.

Trusting a Certificate with Keychain Access

But how does one do that programatically, through a script or something? I've been asked to write an installer that installs a self-signed script. I've suggested that it's inadvisable to do that, but the client is keen... so how does one go about doing it (easy as pie on Windows...)

10.5.2 freezes

Hi there D,

10.5.2 upgrade is terrible. Same as You, I've been completely confident in using the Software Update without any hesitations, but now ...

I mean, my MBP is freezing at least once per day, my Garageband is unusable, Safari chrashes so often that I'm switching to Firefox again ....WTF.

And one can only dream of the times when I had like 50-100 _working_ days of uptime on my PB G4.

I'm not upgrading anymore before some time period given to see what the other (un)lucky users are reporting.

Thanks for the tips, but in my case it didn't help :(

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

I've been having this exact problem, but it's not Leopard. It started with the 10.4.0 update to Tiger and it's annoying. I've been scanning all the log files and can't seem to find any real hints. I get

Mar  1 10:55:38 Macintosh login[2558]: DEAD_PROCESS: 2558 ttys000

Mar  1 10:59:24 Macintosh loginwindow[2511]: DEAD_PROCESS: 0 console

10.5.2 freezes

Same here. Freezes started happening after the graphic update. Random but seem to be triggered by Safari + running on battery. I repaired permissions and freezes stopped for 3 days but then again it froze the last night :(

I feel exactly as you said -- it's sad to lose trust in a reliable tool (MacBook Pro).

I hope for a fix from Apple...

10.5.2 freezes

I hear you man. Same problem here. As a "switcher," I'm kind of disappointed in OS X, given this freezing issue.

I hope they come up with a fix soon.

10.5.2 freezes

Sadly, the freezes are still occuring. They usually happen when I'm running on battery power, whatever the application running.

If Apple doesn't come out with a solution quickly, my only choice will be to clean install 10.5.1 and wait.

It really makes me feel angry.

On the gripe level, please be aware that the SiliconImage ExpressCard 34 eSATA host controller generates kernel panics under Leopard when inserted or ejected from my MacBook Pro. The current driver is v1.1.9 and this includes cards sold by Sonnet and LaCie. Sucks.

In sync

Thanks for your words Claudia.
:)

I'll drop you a couple of invits in your mailbox…

In sync

Then I wish kids a very happy bday (and I want an invitation tooo =P)! Such moments are always happy and full of joy.. the joy you can read in the eyes and on the lips of those creatures.

Will step off from the "baaaaaaah" on the MN website (fancy but too sheepy =P) and want to drop down few words from a song that fill your ending lines:

Release your innovations
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

- Natasha Bedingfield

Getting GrowlMail to work

How do I change the the EnableBundles property of your Mail preferences (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist) to true? I found the preference, clicked it and a bunch of code popped up in a text writer. Now what? (And do I really wanna mess with this code?)

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

This worked for me. Thanks for the advice.

Getting GrowlMail to work

growl.info is down. would anybody upload growl beta 1.1.3?

.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard

Thanks for the great instructions. It only took me 15 minutes to fix this problem because of your post. It also saved a new computer buying experience from going bad.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Download Growl beta 1.1.3 and install the GrowlMail package in there to get GrowlMail to work under 10.5.2

Getting GrowlMail to work

This hack didn't work for me. After I type the commands I open mail and get the message saying that GrowlMail has been disabled. What gives? I just installed GrowlMail also, about 1 hour ago just before I updates to 10.5.2

Watch that trailing slash

Trailing Slashes are good in way. Its better to use it when you are submitting your website or making a text link. Here is a good blog related to these issues, that u find worth to read
http://seodocs.blogspot.com/

Trusting a Certificate with Keychain Access

nice info. i receive a x509 password error. it seems to be system generated. and not associated with system root

Asa | Asa

Too bad GE is a long way from here.. but I can arrange a Jazz matinee in the neibs, not the same vibe I bet.

Raspberry sky

C'est la récompense d'arriver tôt au bureau.
Depuis mon perchoir là haut, on a une vue magnifique sur les levés de soleil.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Try this recompiled version of GrowlMail: http://www.mediafire.com/?29l7bt4xe7c

You'll need to set to true the EnableBundles property of your Mail preferences (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist)

Please note that this is not an official version, and hence not supported, so don't bother the developers. Nevertheless, it seems to do the job. You can't select/deselect the accounts to monitor in the Preference pane. All accounts are active be default.

Treat this as an interim solution until the official version becomes available (it is being completely rewritten to account for changes in Leopard). I'm currently running it with Growl 1.1.2 on Mac OS 10.5.2.

Dingalingaling

@Ari, the file is available from the following URL: http://www.davidroessli.com/logs/assets/audio/07_Radjiv_07.mp3

Dingalingaling

Hi,

Could you please send me the 07_Radjiv_07.mp3. -file per e-mail, since I have no idea wether I can download it from your site. Please.

I´ve been searching for this particular tone for months. I heard it last summer in Switzerland, but my swiss friend lost it.

I would be very grateful if you could help me! I´m living now in Finland and here it´s unknown.

Regards,
Ari

Backup revisited

David,
Thanks for posting this article on how your use SoftRaid and Super Duper. (I found you after plugging in several combinations of keywords into Google - whew!) My mercury elite plug-n-play that comes with SoftRaid should be coming soon as I'll be using that to back-up everything from my computer hard drive and any external drives off the computer. I had heard I can use Super Duper to schedule but still have to figure it out exactly how to do that. Looks like a lot of user manual reading is in the near future (grin). I'm used to having a help desk and recently became my own tech support - oy. Thanks for the other tips and letting me know it can be done ;-)
Deb

Getting GrowlMail to work

Same problem as Chris!

Getting GrowlMail to work

This didn't work for me. Whatever I did in Terminal did SOMETHING because the next time I opened Mail it told me that the GrowlMail app was incompatible and it would be deactivated... the same msg I got the first time I booted up Leopard.

This is on a brand new Mac with a Clean Leopard Install.

Any other suggestions? I miss my Growl notifications.

iPod Touch first impressions

@JL: if I was you, I would stay away from anything with an Apple on it.

I agree that iTunes' library sharing is poor to say the least, but your comment doesn't bring anything new or constructive to the discussion.

You sound like a Troll to me.

iPod Touch first impressions

I live in France and work in Geneva.
While I was in Knoxville TN Apple Store, I bought two Ipod Touch players, and a MacBook (The MacBook is fine except I have to cough up 200Eu to buy Lepoard a week after I bought it). I was going to give the Itouch players as presents for Christmas to my daughter and wife.
However I have found out to my cost that the devices have been sabotaged in such a way that only ITunes can be used on only one computer for one device. Also the players are unusable from Linux (Encrypted
protocol) so that it is impossible to use them with winamp + mlipod as in the past. In my opinion I was sold these devices under false pretenses, they are simply junk, there should be a large warning written on the packet:
WARNING THESE DEVICES ARE BRAIN DEAD AND NEED ITUNES BLOATWARE.
My daughter runs Ubuntu/Windows Dual Boot, I run Ubuntu,
MaxOs (on my new MacBook) and Windows. There are 6 computers in my house, 3 operating systems and two ITouches; the horrible impossible mess created by Itunes
and the ridiculous way it is impossible to use windows and MacOs (Incompatible file systems!!) or even two windows computers (One Library) is simply a dirty trick from Apple. Rest assured that I will tell others what Apple is up to, they wont sell any more of that junk to the people I know. The web is now full of complaints about IPhone and ITouch:
http://www.blogitouch.fr/2007/09/17/itunes-obligatoire-pour-les-nouveaux-ipod/
- this explains how the Itouch has been sabotaged and how to fix it with a jailbreak
or
http://www.calacanis.com/
- are some examples of the troubles the poor suckers had who own two computers, hell they don't have two ITouches
then they would be in real trouble.
Apple is shooting itself in the foot.
Any one want a couple of new ITouches going cheap I am not dishonest enough not tell tell them what a load of rubbish they are.

Spaces matter in IE 7's conditional statements

Try also:

<!--[if IE 7]>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="" />

<![endif]-->

Getting GrowlMail to work

Ok, growl now presents in mail and mail presents in growl.
What i have to do now to have those notifications working? :(

Getting GrowlMail to work

Thanks! Worked like a charm. :D

Getting GrowlMail to work

@Elo: Mac OS X 10.5's Mail.app requires bundle version 3 or greater. You can try the following command to enable GrowlMail:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion -int 3

Or, download the script from http://trac.growl.info/changeset/4693

There is an interesting AppleScript alternative that is described in a blog post called "Growl, Mail.app and AppleScript" by Kevin Way.

Getting GrowlMail to work

and with Leopard? what command must be written? because Mail does not recognize growlmail under Leopard...

thanks

Getting GrowlMail to work

Took me quite a bit of digging, or at least more than it should have to find this tidbit. Thank you so much! Now if the Growl devs would include this information, I think a lot of people would be much less frustrated by "Growl/Mail/GrowlMail/etc" not working.

Getting GrowlMail to work

It worked! Thank you. :-D

Backup revisited

@Adriano: did you quite all running apps? If so, you probably have a service accessing the drive (filesharing most probably).

Here are the steps I follow on my Mac OS X Server:

1. Open server Admin;
2. Stop file sharing services (AFP, Windows);
3. Open SoftRAID;
4. Split MIrror Volume Backup into “Read-only Secondary Disk�?. Two disks with the same name will appear in the Finder. One has a padlock, that is the secondary drive;
5. Unmount the padlocked volume and remove physically the disk from the system;
6. Insert the other secondary disk. It will appear as locked volume in SoftRAID;
8. Click it and select "Convert Read-only Secondary Drive" from the Volume menu;
9. A dialog box will ask you what to do with it. Select “Add to original mirror�?. The secondary disk will then synched;
10. Restart file sharing services and resume normal life.

If you're not running Mac OS Server, turn the file sharing services off from the System Preferences > Sharing pane.

Backup revisited

I've been using softraid, but I'm unable to split a mirror drive as you describe. I get a "Drive in use" message. Any idea?

iPod Touch first impressions

@Zeljko: (No problem - I should speak German..)

I'm not sure. I guess you could try through a reseller (http://wheretobuy.apple.com/Catalog.html), but they probably restrict their sales to the US.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Works like a dream and thanks for sharing :-)

iPod Touch first impressions

Sorry David, i thought you talk German.
Do you know if there's any possibility to order the iPod in the US? Its is much cheaper over there.

Cheers

iPod Touch first impressions

@ Zeljko: in English please.. :/ I'm not sure I understand your question.

Are you asking if I ordered my iPod Touch in the US? ordered it from the Swiss Apple Store the day following it's announcement.

iPod Touch first impressions

Wie und wo hast du es geschafft dir einen ipod touch aus den Staaten liefern zu lassen? Ich versuche das schon seit ein paar Tagen doch es klappt nicht.

Vielen Dank für deine (raschmögliche) Antwort.

Cheers
Zeljko

Getting GrowlMail to work

@firebirdc5: are you running the latest version? Check for other Mail add-ons, font managers, or haxies you may have installed and deactivate them temporarily. Other users are having similar problems. Check this thread http://tinyurl.com/2c5x4q (you could try to downgrade to the previous version 0.76)

@smanny: you need to open the Terminal application which is located in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder and type in the two commands.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Hey, I'm really new at this stuff...
what do you mean with I have to run those commands - where? who can help?
thanx a lot in advance ;-)

Getting GrowlMail to work

That seemed to fix growl but now when I launch mail.app as soon as a notification tries to go out mail.app crashes. The only way to get it to stop crashing is to disable the above changes. Anyone else have that?

iPod Touch first impressions

Me too..

Dear David

Finding a solution for you is important to me, so I have requested assistance with the issue you reported. You will receive an email after the matter has been investigated and further information is available.

Thank you for your patience. Apple wants your iTunes experience to be as enjoyable as possible.

Sincerely,

***
iTunes Customer Support
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww/

iPod Touch first impressions

Concerning the Wi-Fi Music Store language issues, I received a reply from Apple Support saying that this has been bumped up to the developers. Hopefully it will be fixed. But let's consider ourselves lucky, the menus could have been in Swedish. No one knows where Switzerland is anyway. ;)

Getting GrowlMail to work

cheers!

Getting GrowlMail to work

Thanks a bunch!

This worked for me!

Mark

Getting GrowlMail to work

Thanks! Mine works now.

Getting GrowlMail to work

Hey THANKS ! for the info got mine working now also..

iPod Touch first impressions

You can use iTunes to verify that all the music, videos, and other items you bought from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store are in your iTunes library. You might want to do this if a download was interrupted. Here's how:

1. In iTunes, choose Store > Check for Purchases.
2. Enter your iTunes Store account ID and password, then click Check.
3. Purchases not yet on your computer will be downloaded.

More info here:

iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store Troubleshooting
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306441
Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305465

iPod Touch first impressions

No. Unfortunately, not yet. The firmware upgrade didn't change anything. I suspect the problem lies somehow on the server side.

I 've just received the invoices relative to my purchases on the WiFi Store: in German (sigh). I contacted client support and see what they'll come back with.

Enjoy your iPod Touch. It really is awesome.

iPod Touch first impressions

I'm in Canada, and my iPod touch just shipped yesterday. It sounds like an awesome tool. The language problem with the WiFi store sounds VERY annoying - have you found a solution yet? They just released a new firmware (1.1.1) - that might solve the problem.

Movable Type in the fast lane

MT's grid doesn't use FastCGI. The script you ran may have output the expected results, but support confirms they have no plans to install FastCGI.

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

Hi

I have a related problem. Not only does my logout hang, but my logins hang as well.

The only way I can login is to turn off the airport extreme. Or I should turn off my airport before I logout each time - both of which SUCK.

I have tried your suggestion and that did not fix the problem.

Any other tips?

Use Apache's mod_rewrite for beautiful MovableType URLs

This is close to what I have been looking for. The problem is that the keywords in your urls are separated by underscores, which almost defeat the purpose of rewriting the urls. I think most people rewrite their urls for search engines and the little extra boost they give.

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

EXCELLENT!! I have been looking for those wise words for a couple of weeks now.
Its ridiculously tedious searching for various mac issues on the web as well as apple's own "knowledge base". As a long time windows admin, now apple addict, this is the one place apple needs to look MS over the shoulder, and implement something similar on their website. The MS knowledge base and TechNet for pro's are far easier to search through and find useful info in.
Anyway, many thanks for posting your experience here.
Best regards,
Kim

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

Thanks Adam, your tip works like a charm. Actually, I did previously try it but I didn't remove the character 'x' following the backslash and hence it didn't work.
Make sure you use,

content: "\201c"

content: "\x201c"

Note: TextMate encodes in hex with the "x"

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

I've just been having the same problem. My solution was to escape the UTF-8 characters in the CSS file; for example, rather than using

content: "“"

content: "\201C"

Twitter cleanup

Oh thanks a lot for the hint, I'm just terrified by those wild oats addings!
True that I'm not following any tweet.. =)

Damp and powerless

Yes, sometimes shit happens.. I can lend you a bucket to flip water outside, the next time =)

Your latest t-shirt

I gave importance for quality not for brand.I have visited a so many sites, which sales all kinds of t-shirts online.

Swiss french speak French

Symantec is doing involuntary Multilanguage interactions with its clients: Last year, I bought a French version of Norton antivirus in a Swiss store. Yesterday I was trying to renew the license. First I click yes on the Norton invite would you like to renew your license?. I was quite surprise to get a page in German which was invited me to update a German version of Norton antivirus. It was simply impossible to find a way to switch to a French page in order to update my French version of Norton... Anyway, after a short research on Symantec website, I finally found that in the French version of the site, the client may choose other French-speaking countries, i.e Switzerland, cool! I renewed the license there and was quite happy to receive a confirmation in a language that I guess was something like Finnish !!! Of course I paid the new license but the new code is systematically rejected when I try to enter it in Norton... :-(

Multiple iTunes librairies

Few and far apart. I only sync my calendar and contact info with my iPods.

This results from the fact that my truly mobile iPod is a 1Gb Nano I picked up at a slashed price just before the 2nd generation Nanos were released, and such little storage requires manual syncing. My other iPod is a 30Gb 3G that sits in the car, and only make his way back home before a long trip in the car.

iPod syncing has always been an issue with me as it relies on a single library to perform at its best. Mine gets hooked up to two desktop Macs and a MBP on a weekly basis, so I quickly disabled the music/playlist/podcast syncing. I don't maintain consistent libraries over all the computers I use. The only library I try to maintain up-to-date is my home Airport Disk shared one. I regularly drag my new tracks to it, but I haven't yet found n efficient way of doing so. I have a playlist on my MBP with the latest tracks I need to add, but you still need to export them somehow from one lib in order to import to another, which still is a drag. I'm working on an Automator script that will do it or me, but haven't got around to polishing it yet.

I would believe that using multiple libraries with an iPod is a bit like using an iPod on multiple computers, you have to switch to "Manually manage music" in the iPod's preference pane on iTunes.

So no, iPod syncing isn't a feature I use too much.

Multiple iTunes librairies

It seems like my iPod auto-syncs with the currently loaded library which confuses me slightly. Also, the selected playlists settings seem to remain on the iTunes side and not the libraries' which is also quite bizarre.

What is your experience syncing an iPod with multiple libraries?

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

Unfortunately, I was a little too enthusiastic. The problem remains until you uncheck "Disconnect from wireles networks when I log out" in the Airport Options of Network Preferences.

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo WEP problems fixed?

Looks like apple is doing something about this.. They know it's broke, I ended up buying a new router (apple brand, of course) and everything was fixed (duh). Basically, it was bait and switch.

I posted my owes on the discussions only to have my ID discontinued without warning. After buying a MacBook Pro and a Extreme router, with apple quicktime pro, my ID has been discontinued.

man, that's evil!

Hope they fix it.. and I'm sure they can try and give me my posting privileges back...

Kristian

Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted

I'm happy to announce that Airport Base Station Update 2007-001 fixes this problem.

The AirPort Base Station Update 2007-001 includes general fixes and compatibility updates for the following applications:

• AirPort Utility
• AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow Base Stations
• AirPort Disk Utility
• AirPort Disk Agent

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo WEP problems fixed?

Sorry to hear that. Try to downloading and installing the standalone update from Apple downloads. That fixes things sometimes.

MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo WEP problems fixed?

2007-002 sent my Airport extreme card on my new Intel MacBook from perfect working order to zero functionality. Sort it out apple!

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

David, that's curious! I guess I misremembered the cause for this issue. The fact that @charset isn't working in Safari 2.0 is not surprising -- support for it was only added to WebKit in September last year. The issue I mentioned, which doesn't seem to be the case in the examples you've provided, was about the character set on the main document being ignored when determining the encoding of the stylesheet. If you're really curious and interested in finding a workaround, it should be possible to work out roughly where in the archive of nightly builds the bug went away. This would make it easier to work out what the fix for the problem was and can make it simple to work backwards from there to find a workaround.

David, thanks for testing the nightly builds! If you run into any other issues which are not yet fixed, please don't hesitate to file bug reports so that they can be investigated as soon as possible.

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

Thanks Mark for your insight and comments. I don't know why I didn't think to use the charset property or rule before.

In html file:

<link type="text/css; charset=utf-8" rel="stylesheet" href=".." />

In external stylesheet file:

@charset "utf-8";

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to work properly. I added a rule to set the charset information in .htaccess as described in the W3C document FAQ: Setting charset information in .htaccess. The new http headers can be viewed with through a web-sniffer report of a css file.

AddType 'text/css; charset=UTF-8' css

The css file shows up correctly: the quotes are curly. Unfortunately, the html page isn't rendered correctly.

I wrapped up a quick set of test files to illustrate the differences with and without the charset property in the main html file and the external stylesheet file, and was surprised to see that none of them work as they should.

1. Embedded stylesheet: works fine
2. External stylesheet without @charset rule referenced without the charset property in link
3. External stylesheet with @charset rule referenced without the charset property in link
4. External stylesheet without @charset rule referenced with the charset property in link
5. External stylesheet with @charset rule referenced with the charset property in link

All files are utf-8 encoded. All files are rendered correctly in the latest nightly build, but not in Safari 2.

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

I should mention that the proper solution for the CSS generated content issue would be to serve your stylesheet with a MIME type that mentions the encoding of the content. Content-type: text/css; charset=utf-8 will have your curly-quotes looking splendid in Safari 2.0 as well as the nightly builds, and is safer than relying on the specific heuristic used to determine the encoding in a stylesheet.

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

From memory the issue here was that external stylesheets default to the latin-1 text encoding while users assume they would default to the encoding of the document referencing them. I do not recall what the specification says about this, but I believe WebKit was updated to respect any character set specified in the HTTP headers for the stylesheet (as it always has) and fall back to the main documents encoding if one is not set. That would explain why you are seeing the correct behaviour now where it failed in the past.

The JavaScript issue sounds a bit different and I can't think of a reason for the issue off the top of my head. Since it's fixed in WebKit and you have a workaround for your site, I'll leave that as is.

- Mark

Your latest t-shirt

I had to buy an ash gray t-shirt of my tribal Spirit design. I remember finishing it and thinking, "Wow. *I* did this?"

Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build

Thanks for writing this up. I've been bothered by that display issue for the longest time. It's nice to see some explanation behind it.

After FoWA London 2007

Hi David,

Thanks for coming all the way over to London for the event. I'm sorry (again) about the wifi. Because they didn't turn on the ADSL on the lines, there was nothing we could do to fix the problem in time (trust me, heads are going to roll on this one!).

We'll do a better job on the points you mentioned, so thanks for bringing them up.

Hope to see you next year!

Kind regards,
Ryan

What is your notepad bag?

For one reason, I can't stop using my Freitag bag that hasn't really been designed for laptops but is quite okay with a pouch like the Brain Cell.

Is it because of the "less bag" factor, or the feeling it gives to own a unique design (every Freitag bag is different) or is it the snobbishness to wear a brand that has entered the permanent collections of some museums of modern art, I don't know. Maybe it is simply because I like bags that don't look new.

Anyhow, my next "new" bag might be a Crumpler because of their simple, well-thought designs and their wild branding.

Yet another WiFi network (yawn)

iStumbler release 98 solves the signal strength issue on Core 2 Duo Macs.

Cold here too

Whether how to define serious cold, or it is a virus and when thus there is a sense to address to the doctor? Or it is possible to lay simply at home, being treated most? WBR LeoP

Enlightened

Johanna, I actually did embed the picture at first, then I noticed the copyright notice: © All Rights Reserved. - so I swapped it with Flickr's logo.

Enlightened

Briliant. I love it. I wonder if it is his.. Why didn't you link the image on your blog?

My backup paranoia

It is quiet actually. The PowerMac G5's fans make more noise and cover those of the Fusion. LaCie's Two Big is much more noisier (but it is off most of the time, and it's hidden in a closet anyway).

My backup paranoia

How noisy is the Fusion 400? Anything you could live with in your lounge?

Yet another WiFi network (yawn)

Alf,
Thanks for your comment and your efforts to provide us with a useful and reliable tool. I really appreciate it.

Yet another WiFi network (yawn)

Sorry about the signal strength bug you're seeing in this screenshot, the private AirPort API for newer Macs are sending back bad data and I've almost got a new release which fixes the bug ready to ship. Keep an eye out.

Transcending CSS

Dear David,
Many thanks for your very kind words about Transcending CSS. I'm glad you liked it.

Kind regards,
Andy

Getting GrowlMail to work

Yes, I was :)
Actually, the archives are still available on http://www.macinblog.com/

Getting GrowlMail to work

Thanks! Couldn't figure out why it worked on one Mac and not on the other.

PS: were you the guy who wrote on Macinblog a few years ago?