As most Mac owners know, yesterday Apple released OS X 10.5, code-name Leopard. Some lucky customers, including those of us in Computing Services here at Thayer School received our copies and have begun installing and playing. I have successfully installed it on my MacBook Pro, but have run into a few software issues that I thought I’d document in the hopes that it may save someone some time and effort somewhere.
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If you are already browsing the web with the excellent browser Firefox, do yourself a favor and install Adblock Plus… especially if you are stuck on dial-up or satellite internet at home.
Adblock Plus not only hides annoying ads, but also prevents them from even being downloaded. You can block ads by hand by right-clicking on the ad and selecting, “Adblock Image”. Or better yet, you can subscribe to a filter list and let someone [snip...]
Here’s an obscure one, about as far from Frequently Asked as you can get, but if it can help but one stumbling interneter then it was worth the typing.
If you’re getting getting an error on your Mac whenever you try to use the built-in iSight camera complaining that “Your camera is in use by another application“..
and you’ve made dag-nabit sure there’s no other iSight hogging app running…
and you’ve rebooted…
and you’ve cmd-opt-P-R-ed…
and you’ve Software Updated…
and you’ve tried every hair-brained tip from every far-flung forum that comes [snip...]
Everything from HTML &ersand commands, to Regular Expressions, to Japanese emoticons.
The most meta of cheat sheets is available here.
[via lifehacker]
The Issue
I’m an email pack rat. I find old email messages extremely useful in the course of my work, and I accumulate gigabytes worth of them over the course of a year. But they’re only useful to me if I can find them when I need them.
I use the Thunderbird email client on Windows and found its email searching to be slow when slogging through my thousands of archived message (even when stored on local disk). So I hit on the idea [snip...]
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