∅ the empty set

.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

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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,

Ralf Kolich
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.