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 [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 15 Sep 2008
If like me you have two monitors connected to your MS-Windows laptop at work, I am sure you have experienced the nuisance of “loosing” your application windows. Basically, the window manager appears to be smart enough to remember a window position, i.e., which monitor it was on last, but too dumb to realize that that [...]
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.
Tips & Tricks Tobi on 23 Jul 2008
I don’t know if it is a problem with my current theme, or what else caused it, but there is no blank line after an unordered list and a following paragraph that makes it look like the following line belongs to the list like so:
item 1
item 2
Not part of the list.
The quickest and [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 14 Jul 2008
This morning MS-Office SP3 was pushed onto my machine, and afterwards I noticed that all my former “.mat” files were missing their file extension and were identified as “Microsoft Office Access Table Shortcut” as can be verified by looking at Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types.
Deletion of this file association, and creation of a [...]
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 [...]