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How to Change your Email Password & How To Enter your new Password into Apple Mail

January 24, 2012

It is a good idea to change your email password every now & again. In many ways, control of your email account is the key to a lot of other things, such as recovering a ‘forgotten’ website password. So you want to make sure that your email password is not easily guessed either by humans [...]

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Fix Palm HotSync – Mac OS X Palm Desktop Conduit Manager

September 26, 2011

After certain software updates and/or Mac OS X installs your Palm HotSync may broken. You might have had to Force Quit it because it seems completely stuck. Don’t despair! Here is a fix. * First off, know that Palm HotSync DOES WORK with Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard and 10.6.x Snow Leopard. Yes, this really [...]

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What is the best Web Browser for an old Mac?

July 8, 2011

What is the best Web Browser for an old Mac? Opera 9.64 is the best you can get… for anyone stuck on a very OLD Mac still running OSX 10.3.9 Panther. I know that because I had an injury earlier this year that kept me flat on my back for 2 weeks. The challenge was [...]

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Send Plain Text email from Apple Mail

July 5, 2011

Sometimes you want to send a plain text email. Perhaps you belong to an email list that requires it, or you are sending to people who are using software that prefers plain text. Perhaps you just want to send smaller, lighter emails twice as fast in a more compatible fashion. Rich Text emails are usually [...]

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Import Software Serial Numbers into 1Password from FileMaker Pro or text file

June 16, 2011

I love 1Password! It is a really great Password manager, and in a recent version they added support for storing all your software serial numbers & registrations. I’ve been using a simple FileMaker Pro database for that, so I want to import all of it into 1Password. The problem begins when you notice that 1Password [...]

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Let Smart Mailboxes in Apple Mail sort your mail for you

June 2, 2011

Email has gotten out of control. You probably receive a lot of it, and maybe so much that you don’t even want to wade through the mess. So much email that you occasionally miss a message from a friend or relative, leaving it unread amidst the sea of low priority commercial email that may not [...]

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1Password Parallels TechTool Pro Bundle deal is better than Coupon code

March 15, 2011

This deal below has expired. The deal above is currently available. There are 11 apps in this bundle deal! The ones I find the most interesting (to me) are: 1Password 3.5.9 Easily manage and access website logins. 1Password is a password manager that uniquely brings you both security and convenience. It is the only program [...]

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Importing NOW Contact text file into Apple Addressbook

January 25, 2011

The Problem Report: In the Apple Address Book application, the File > Import > Text File… does not work for me. I get the field-mapping dialog and I can match up the fields OK, but then: + The OK button doesn’t do anything (that I can tell). + Clicking the right arrow to see the [...]

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$49 Mac Software Bundle Deal 90% off! (until Dec 21st)

December 9, 2010

This deal below is expired. But the deal ABOVE is valid now. If you’re interested, click it for more info. 1Password $39 MacFamilyTree $49 DEVONthink $49 Flux $109 Default Folder X $34 Art Text $49 Swift Publisher $44 Chronories $29 Interarchy $49 Typinator $25 First 10,000 buyers also get these bonus apps: Star Wars Jedi [...]

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How to fix a Corrupted Time Machine backup

November 15, 2010

If your XServe TimeMachine SparseBundle disk image becomes corrupted, here is how to fix it and save the day. Errors fixed are “operation not supported on socket” and “time machine sparsebundle error”. Also involved a network restore of a Mac from the remote sparse bundle disk image back up file. Happy ending.

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