A fix for Google calDAV calendars nor showing up in iCal
I synchronize my iCal and Google calendars using calDAV (based on these instructions). After getting everything running, I had a calDAV calendar in my iCal which was not showing up in the sidebar. The "account" was showing up (the stuff written in grey, capital letters, with a triangle next to it) but no calendar in the account. No error message, either.The problem was that I was using non-ASCII characters in the name of the calendar (what a surprise). I changed it on the Google website, deleted the account in iCal, added it again, and voilà, now it shows as expected.Not sure if this is linked to 10.5.5 or not; I just know it was at some point working, and that I had this problem for about a week or so. Hope this helps.
published on Monday, the 29. September 2008, macosxhints
Enter hex password in AirPort connection dialog
If you hold down the option key while selecting a secure wireless network (WPA only) from the AirPort menu bar icon, the system brings up a different dialog box. Instead of asking for the ASCII password, it lets you enter a hexadecimal password (noting you need exactly 64 characters) instead. [robg adds: This worked for me in 10.5, but I'm not sure if if works in 10.4 as well, as my 10.4 test system isn't AirPort equipped.]
published on Tuesday, the 20. May 2008, macosxhints
First Look: Voluminous, e-book reader
Thereís no shortage of reading material on the Internet. While many organizations, such as Project Gutenberg, offer free books that are no longer copyrighted (such as the plays of William Shakespeare or religious works such as the Bible), most of these e-books consist of plain ASCII text files. Finding these free e-books can take time and reading t...
published on Friday, the 18. April 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: Fix strange Windows Sharing machine names
I was a little puzzled the other day when, in the Finder's Network file sharing window, I saw a machine named 'MAC001B23CF43,' sharing in the Windows format. I knew I didn't have any machines named like that on my network. The name was pretty straightforward, but hardly elegant like 'SuperMac' or 'MarioMac' or whatnot, like the Apple side of its filesharing was setup.The solution? I checked the computer's name and it had a number of non-standard characters in it and a few spaces. So, Samba (the mechanism behind Leopard's file sharing for Windows) was confused by the name for the Mac for Windows File Sharing and named itself 'MAC#########,' where # is the Ethernet address of the Mac.So I renamed the computer to something without spaces or high ASCII characters, and now the Mac has a reasonable, human-friendly name.
published on Tuesday, the 11. March 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Switch Spaces using fn keys with Quicksilver
Adding to the multiple ways to switch spaces: here's a way to do it with just Blacktree's Quicksilver, without running any (other) third party apps. In the Spaces control panel, set control-number keys to switch directly to a space. Add a Quicksilver trigger, with this text (type dot and then this text): tell application "System Events" to keystroke (ASCII character 49) using control down Set the action as "Run as AppleScript" Set the trigger to use a keypress, then (you might have to hit the (i) icon to get the sidebar to pop out) set it to F1, and make sure you set it to activate on release. F1 should now jump to space 1. Do the same for F2, but with ASCII 50, and so on. You're just telling it to hit the control-n when you hit the function ...
published on Friday, the 22. February 2008, macosxhints
Apps: Citrin, ÜberUpload
Citrin 1.3 ($120) application for interactive scientific graphing and curve fitting, providing: Commonly used charts, such as scatter & line series, bar, column, area, 3-D (column, pyramid, prism, area and band), ternary scatter, pie, polar, box & whisker, histograms, probability charts, etc. Leopard-ready, allows recoding non-UTF-8/non-ASCII text ...
published on Friday, the 4. January 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos
I was surprised to find a great many effect filters available when setting photos in Leopard's Address Book -- six pages of them! Included are hologram, ASCII art(!), and other great ones. To check them out, just load up Address Book, edit the image in one of your contacts, and click the swirly effects button next to the camera button.
published on Wednesday, the 14. November 2007, macosxhints
10.5: How to select and close folders quickly in list view
I just noticed that -- finally as of 10.5 -- Mac OS X's Finder is a lot more useful for us keyboard shortcut fanatics: You can now close folders with the left arrow without having the focus on the folder to be closed. Put another way, it's now possible to close a folder while having focus on one of the files within that folder. For example, assume you have focus (in list view mode, of course) on a file named ASCIIMoviePlayer on this path: /Users » tve » TMP » ASCIIMoviePlayerSample. In 10.4, if you wanted to close all of the opened folders (one at a time), you'd have to use a combination of Up Arrow and Left Arrow to move back up the hierarchy while close parent folders. But in 10.5, the first press of the Left Arrow takes you to the focused item's enclosing folder, and the second press closes that folder. So in the above example, you can get to the root level of the disk by ...
published on Monday, the 5. November 2007, macosxhints
Send iPhone email in languages other than English
In the first version of the iPhone, keyboard input is limited to ASCII English. For a workaround to allow additional languages and characters in simple emails, point the iPhone browser at this site. The javascript virtual keyboards available there cover French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Greek, Brazilian, and Swedish.Just enter your text via the onscreen keyboard, then click the E-mail button.
published on Thursday, the 19. July 2007, macosxhints
A script to encode Windows Word's non-ASCII characters
Have you ever had to work with HTML that was generated by the Windows version of Word that had non-ASCII characters sprinkled thoughout -- fancy quotes, etc? Here's an AppleScript that will read text from the clipboard, encode non-ASCII characters as character entities, then put it back on the clipboard. Here's a short description of how it works (also included as comments in the script): This script will convert high bit WinLatin1 (code page 1252) characters (128-255) to their unicode character entity equivalents, based on this document. Dropping files on the script will edit them in place. If any file does not seem to be a text file, it is skipped. If all files dropped on the script do not look like text files, the user is alerted and the embedded perl script is not run. Just running the script will edit what's...
published on Monday, the 14. May 2007, macosxhints