Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 19 Jun 2009
This post is really just an edited summary of instructions found elsewhere. I used instructions from two sources (here incl. comments, and here), the first of which is slightly outdated and incomplete. Here’s the full story:
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform Tobi on 13 Jan 2009
Excerpt form an Ars Technica Article on the Windows 7 UI:
An icon on the taskbar doesn’t necessarily mean that a program is running; programs can be pinned to the taskbar so that their icon is persistent. Clicking the icon starts the program (if it’s not running) or switches to it (if it is).
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Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 30 Oct 2008
The answer can be found in the so-called BOM-files, which stands for Bill Of Material. More information about bom files be found in the Apple Developed Connection (ADC) bom man page, or by typing man bom in the terminal.
These files are buried inside installer packages as well as in receipts of already installed programs. [...]
Mac OS X Platform Tobi on 10 Oct 2008
Recently I found out about a nice feature of Mac OS X’s Disk Utility: The ability to securely delete unused space. Huh? – you might say – why do that? Well, one nice feature of the Finder is that you can securely empty the trash. This not only removed information about the file from the [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform and Telecommunications and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 10 Oct 2008
While there are multiple software solutions that cost money, I prefer the free alternatives. In this case it comes in the form of Mozilla Thunderbird, and to be more precise, the Windows version. Thunderbird’s import function imports your current Microsoft Outlook folders including attachments and all. It also has options for Outlook Express and other [...]
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 15 Sep 2008
I am a big fan of encrypted sparse disk images in Mac OS X. I use them primarily to keep my financial data secure w/o the need to use FileVault. This way, only the data that needs to be encrypted is protected with quick access to everything else. Using sparse disk images saves space, b/c [...]
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 02 Aug 2008
This site in the Apple knowledge base is a comprehensive index of instructions on how to open up and repair your iMac G5.
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks and Workflow Tobi on 12 Jul 2008
If you want to print address labels for mass mailings, you cannot do that with Apple’s Pages, because Pages puts only one address per page in its mail merge function. This is fine, if you want to write a lot of identical letters to different people and also want to add custom printed envelopes. But [...]
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 12 Jul 2008
For reference, I just saw the following information in the weekly list of Apple Support updates: With Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the Finder may not fully “load.” The Finder might not respond (the Force Quit Window may also not respond), or you may only see a Finder menubar with only Spotlight and the Apple [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform and Telecommunications Tobi on 10 Jun 2008
At first glance, Apple’s MobileMe, as previewed at the 2008 WWDC keynote presentation, sounds like an excellent way to stay in sync across multiple platforms. What concerns me is the $99/year fee. It is a much better deal than the .Mac of the past. You get calendar and contact syncing, IMAP e-mail and photo [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform Tobi on 22 May 2008
It seems to me that ever since Apple switched to Intel CPUs there is no more exciting topic than the ins and outs about running Windows on a Mac. Macworld is running an article called “The Best of Both Worlds” and argues that you need to run Windows just so that you are able to [...]