Fashion Your Firefox: Easily Find Add-ons
Today, Mozilla has released Fashion Your Firefox, a new Web application that enables Firefox users to customize their browser based on their interests and online activities. It provides a simple way to find appropriate add-ons that fit your lifestyles, showcasing them in a simple and easy-to-install way. “One of the best parts about Firefox is the [...]
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, apple-blog
10.5: Modify the login window with Workgroup Manager
I have always liked the result of this hint (and others like it in 10.4) that allowed me to customize the login window, but a quick search of the archive seems to show that no such hint exists for 10.5 (although I grant that I didn't try this one in 10.5). The existing hints for Workgroup Server don't address the login window specifically. However, I have figured out how to make all sorts of modifications to the login window by using Apple's free Server Admin Tools. To modify your login window, follow the instructions in this hint to download and install the Server Admin Tools and open Workgroup Manager. (Note that the link I provided in the previous...
published on Monday, the 6. October 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Fix connect/disconnect Bluetooth modem issue
By default, OS X 10.5.4 lets you set up a mobile phone to act as a Bluetooth modem, but this does not always work. For instance, it doesn't work with a Nokia E61 on the O2 network in the UK.When you try Connect Bluetooth from the menu bar, you will see Connecting..., immediately followed by Disconnecting ..., and then finally an error saying that it "Could not negotiate a connection with the remote PPP server." This error persists even after taking care to enter the correct username, password, APN, CID, and to change the necessary settings on the phone. Googling on this will also produce a lot advice to install custom modem scripts. This is often misleading, since these scripts were mostly designed to fill gaps in OS X 10.4.*.In fact, the "connecting/disconnecting" problem is because Leopard, by default, requires a new kind of PPP authorization (MS-CHAP[v2]) which not all...
published on Friday, the 12. September 2008, macosxhints
ClickInstall makes creating installers easy
Excel Software has provided developers with a simple solution to creating professional Mac OS X installers with ClickInstall. ClickInstall makes it easy to create compressed, password protected, self-extracting installers with only basic computer skills. ClickInstall presents a simple installer window with custom logo, icon and background images. T...
published on Monday, the 21. July 2008, macintosh-news-network
Gefen intros Ethernet-based HDMI IR Extender
Gefen on Thursday introduced its newest connectivity product, the HDMI IR Extender. Aimed at custom installations, the HDMI IR Extender will allow users to control their HD source units from another room without having to purchase and run lengthy HDMI cables through their walls. The Sender and Receiver connect via two standard Ethernet (CAT-5) cabl...
published on Friday, the 4. July 2008, macintosh-news-network
Customize the inserted date/time in Pages '08
In Pages, I couldn't get both the date and the time inserted in the combination of formats that I wanted. (You can see the available formats by double-clicking on an inserted date/time field.) Here's how I added a customized format. I?m working with Pages 3.0.2 and Mac 10.5.3 on an iMac G5. One has to be comfortable editing a plist file.Quit Pages. Select Pages in the Finder, Control-click on it, and pick Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Then, after backing it up somewhere just in case, open the following file:/Contents/Frameworks/SFWordProcessing.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/Defaults.plistYou can do this using TextEdit or the Property List Editor (if you have that installed). In TextEdit, look for the following lines: <string>Custom</string> <integer>0&...
published on Monday, the 23. June 2008, macosxhints
Dell charging $50 for Vista-to-XP downgrade
Dell is charging some customers as much as $50 to switch from Windows Vista to XP on their systems, according to the company. Buyers picking a system from the company's Vostro business line can choose to install XP Professional instead of Vista Business but must pay an additional $50 beyond the price it takes to upgrade to Vista Business itself. ...
published on Wednesday, the 18. June 2008, macintosh-news-network
Automatically start Xampp at login
I like xampp a lot, because it's a complete package. I used to configure the whole thing myself on the Mac, but it took a lot of time. Xampp, on the other hand, is just so easy to configure and install. The biggest problem I had was that Xampp has to be started manually, and this is bad because I use my Mac mini as a demo server to show my work to customers before going live. If there is a power failure and I am not around, the server won't start. After some head scratching, obfuscated further by reading too much on the net, I found an obvious and simple solution. All I needed to do was to write this very simple Applescript: do shell script "sudo /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/mampp start" password "YOUR ADMIN PWD...
published on Wednesday, the 18. June 2008, macosxhints
Ballmer: you can buy Vista and downgrade to XP for free
While Apple is encouraging its install base to upgrade to the latest version of the Mac OS X operating system, a new sales pitch by its Redmond-based rival to the north recommends that customers unhappy with Vista take a step in the opposite directio...
published on Wednesday, the 4. June 2008, appleinsider
Monetra 7.0 adds check processing, more
Main Street Softworks this week released Monetra 7.0, a payment server software that securely processes credit card, debit card, gift card, and electronic benefit card transactions for retail point-of-sale and eCommerce systems. It is capable of scaling from operation on custom embedded devices to fully redundant clustered server installations proc...
published on Wednesday, the 14. May 2008, macintosh-news-network