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Tricking iCal into Next 7 Day view

Found an undocumented “feature” of iCal – it is possible to get it to behave correctly by setting iCal/Preferences/General as follows: Days per week: 7 Start week on: Wednesday Scroll in week view by: Days What is interesting is that this does NOT do what you would think, it actually does The Right Thing(tm) and […]

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Heartfelt Thanks

Thank you Apple and Steve Jobs for keeping Adobe Flash off my iOS devices and making it easy for me to remove it from my Mac OS X gear. The stability, security, performance, and battery life I am enjoying now were not possible on a Flash-enabled machine.

Mac OS X DNS mysteries explained a bit

Hannes Schmidt has an excellent little write up of why Mac OS X DNS seems a little unpredictable at times when using DHCP or VPN assigned name services; this helps one understand why the results are a surprise or why dig in a terminal window delivers different results from your browser on the same host. […]

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Downgraded to Skype 2.8

The new 5.x version for Mac was way to Windows-craptastic-y… Gross steps backwards in user interface. Skype 2.8 is vastly better. Though the install image is getting trickier to find. Update: Apparently I am not the only one unhappy with the new interface: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/03/30/skype_5/

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Cool enhancement to MobileMe email system

I am not sure exactly when this happened, but MobileMe mail spool finally supports server-side filtering; you can finally put some spam fighting rules into your web account so the spam does not get to your iPhone/iPad (the Mail.app client has always supported client-side filtering). This potentially fixes the problem where your Mac saw no […]

Confusing the message

HP needs to figure out what business they are in. On the one hand they appear to be trying to get out from under Microsoft’s thumb: HP CEO: WebOS on all our PCs in 2012 Yet, on the other hand their Server Blade iLO software group wants to bind HP customers to the use of […]

Apple’s New Subscription Rules

Perhaps Apple ought to call it what it is; a consumer protection surcharge… Frankly, it if could keep me off annoying spam call/catalog/email lists by aggressive marketers like the Metropolitan Museum of New York’s gift shop; I’d be perfectly willing to pay 30% more to hide my identity from them and let me shop for […]

Jules Verne’s Birthday; Mac DiveLog find!!!

Woo hoo! We have used for years Suunto Cobra dive computers when SCUBA diving, they are awesome, but they only connected to Windows software. Apparently a very geeky fellow decided he was so frustrated with Suunto ignoring many divers who are Mac users that he’d address the problem directly by writing his own software to […]

Fujitsu B142 Lifebook (circa 1999) parts wanted and available

During the summer of 1999 my friends and I all purchased the coolest laptop in the world, the lovely Fujitsu B142 Lifebook. I got many years of great use out of that tiny laptop until I had to upgrade to a bigger, faster machine. I am trying to restore my old B142 Lifebook for nostalgia […]

Audio problem fixed on my MacBookPro

Audio stopped working on my work-provided MacBookPro recently, and I was able to fix it by reading this thread and applying the suggestion (I used a coffee stirring stick/straw). http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3255575 Basically using my regular stereo headset confused the headphones/digital audio port into thinking I was connected for digital audio only.

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