Archives for “Tech-tips”
So, Plaxo finally decided to charge all the freeloaders by making Calendar/Contact sync part of their Pro package for about £30 a year. I’m not going to moan, its a defendable position, but I don’t want to pay for a Pro package that I’ll only use a small percentage of – the real USP for [...]
Thought I’d write a quick write up of some useful applications I’ve been using for the Mac. Music Apps BeaTunes - £12. The main feature is to creating intelligent playlists, called Matchlists, where you can highlight a favourite song, and BeaTunes finds other similar songs in your library and creates a playlist form it. You [...]
Bought a D-Link DSL-2640B Wireless Router which was a treat to set up and initially worked well on my laptop. However my iMac G5 with OS X only worked with certain websites – other simply wouldn’t load. D-Link tech support couldn’t wait to put the phone down when I said I had a Mac, so [...]
The tags in my bookmarks have become a bit of a mess over time even though I tried using tag bundles. It seems I’m not the only one to experience this problem: Tips for Tidying Tags Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? Both these articles point to cocoalicious which is a Mac only tool – does a [...]
So I found a way to get my Outlook contacts from Windows into Mac Address Book, but some of the names had first/last mixed up. At first I thought this was easily solved using the built in “Swap First/Last Name’ function until I worked out this was a display thing only! I found an AppleScript [...]
Outlook doesn’t have an in-built function to export to vCard format. After a number of attempts with crippled shareware, I eventually found CSV to vCard which is a nifty online utility for converting CSV files. So in Outlook, export your contacts to a CSV open the file in Notepad copy/paste the text into the CSV [...]
Over a period of time my beloved iMac started to experience a number of issues with applications “Safari Unexpectedly Quit”. Having read about applications crashing I did a number of things including: deleted cache deleted preference files (which can become corrupt) This still didn’t fit it archive and install OS X still didn’t fix it, [...]
After being off-line for a few weeks I finally got round to recovering my domain names and finding a new host. My web host www.xtreme-host.com disappeared off the planet overnight, which is a shame as I’d had no issues with them and the tech support had been great. So I followed instructions to recover my [...]
There’s no MS Visio for OS X, so if you need to open and work with Visio files on the Mac you’ll need a copy of OmniGraffle Pro. If like me, you tried to open a .vsd file only to find OmniGraffle can’t open them, try this free online conversion tool which will convert .vsd [...]
Received my Pioneer DVR-K05 drive from PCCentre Hong Kong and installed it following the Instructions from Apple. Fitting it was a piece of cake, the only thing not in the instructions is that you have to remove the old drive from an Apple metal case by unscrewing the 6-pointed screws.I also had to remove the [...]
After a couple of years of light use, the Superdrive in my iMac G5 broke. Just started spitting disks out. To be honest, it was never the fastest or most reliable of drives but convenient nonetheless. So I spoke to the local Apple centre who told me they (nor official Apple stores) sold replacement parts! [...]
When sending a long URL in an email, there is a chance that the link may become truncated or malformed by the recipient’s email program – this typically happens because some email programs wrap the URL for on-screen formatting and break the link. The recipient may not be able to click the link, or the [...]
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