Apple Seeds Snow Leopard 10A190 (Mac OX 10.6) to Developers
Apple has seeded a new version of Snow Leopard (Build 10A190) to developers this morning. Last night they had emailed ADC members that a preview build of Snow Leopard was made available to them, but the download links were not live until this mornin...
published on Saturday, the 25. October 2008, macrumors
Quick Tip of the Week: Download Source
If you?re using Mac OS X Leopard, you know exactly where to find downloaded files. The Downloads folder. But did you know that Mac OS X Leopard can also help you remember whether you acquired those files from the Internet, an email, via iChat, or some other source? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
published on Monday, the 6. October 2008, apple-hot-news
Quick Tip of the Week: Organize your Workspaces
Using Spaces ? one of the great features in Mac OS X Leopard ? you can stay organized and avoid desktop clutter by putting applications in their own Spaces: Pages and Numbers in one; iTunes in another; Mail, iChat, and Safari in a third Space. But what if you want to use Mail and iChat regardless of the Space your working in? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
published on Monday, the 29. September 2008, apple-hot-news
10.5: Make Spotlight index Thunderbird 2.0 messages
After some work, I finally managed to get Thunderbird 2.0 and Leopard's Spotlight working together -- at least it is good enough for me, but it is still far from the kind of integration you get between Mail.app and Spotlight.Here are the numerous steps I took to get it working (I use two GMail accounts managed via IMAP):Download the Thunderbird.mdimporter. Double-clicking on it should install it in /Library » Spotlight.In Thunderbird, open Preferences » Advanced » General » Configuration Editor. Set mail.spotlight.enable to true.Reboot your Mac and verify that the Thunderbird.mdimporter is registered by checking the output of /usr/bin/mdimport -L in Terminal.Create a Thunderbird.emails directory in your user's Documents folder.Make sure Th...
published on Monday, the 29. September 2008, macosxhints
Mac OS X Leopard Pro Tip: Make Your Mac Speak
You don?t have to be a magician to make your Mac speak. In fact, the ability to speak text in email messages, Pages documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and other text-based files is built in to every Mac. You turn it on in System Preferences, where you?ll find all the Text to Speech options made available to you in Mac OS X Leopard. You can read about them in the latest Pro Tip.
published on Friday, the 26. September 2008, apple-hot-news
Encrypt Mail, Address Book, and iCal data
Like many of you, I keep lots of personal information on my laptop that I would like to keep private in case I lose physical control of the computer (theft, or more likely these days, sudden seizure by the government). There are a few ways to accomplish on-the-fly encryption with OS X, of course, but none of them really fit my needs. FileVault has not been known to be exceptionally reliable (although I've never tried it in Leopard) and is totally unconfigurable. Whole disk encryption is a little overkill for me, so I don't feel like eating the CPU overhead that it entails. On the other end of the spectrum, casual security like an Open Firmware / EFI password, and a strong login password are easily defeated, and only deter those with no interest in your data anyway. What I really want is a way to encrypt just a certain set of private data (like my email in Mail.app, contacts in Address Book, and calendars in iCal), with as little inconvenience as possible. The best ...
published on Monday, the 22. September 2008, macosxhints
Stationary Pack 2 adds interactive designs
Equinux has releases the latest version of its e-mail design software, Stationary Pack 2 for Leopard Mail. Users can choose from over 660 different designs from 122 templates, now with interactive options. Various themes are included, from invitations to holiday cards. Design elements can be changed just clicking on the feature, such as the background that will change color....
published on Thursday, the 18. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: Be aware of a Save As bug in Mail
Here's warning to all users saving their emails from Mail in Rich Text Format (File » Save As, then set the Format pop-up to Rich Text Format). Even if you check the Include Attachments box, the Leopard version of Apple Mail omits the the attachments in the RTFD package (in Tiger, everything worked fine). To verify this, export a message using RTF, then Control-click on the exported RTFD file in the Finder and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu to inspect the package -- you'll find the original message, but none of the attachments. [robg adds: I verified that this problem still exists in the just-released OS X 10.5.5 update, and it does. I also found it's true of exports set to use Plain Text mode. The only way to export with attachments, it seems, is to use Original Format mode.]
published on Wednesday, the 17. September 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Disable Data Detectors in Mail
An interesting change in Leopard was the addition of Data Detectors to Mail, which automatically detect info such as dates, times, names, and addresses, and let you use that data directly from the message in iCal. It can be a very convenient feature, but some users find it annoying. To disable it, quit Mail, and in Terminal, simply enter:defaults write com.apple.mail DisableDataDetectors YESIf you want to enable it again, quit Mail, and repeat the above command, but replace YES with NO (confounded double negatives!).[robg adds: This previous hint explains how to enable Data Detectors in iChat, which are disabled by default in that program.]
published on Friday, the 5. September 2008, macosxhints
Quickly extract all email addresses from Address Book
To quickly (as compared to using nested loops in AppleScript) extract all email addresses from the Address Book, you can tap into Address Book?s SQLite database using the command line (in Terminal): sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select ZADDRESSNORMALIZED from ZABCDEMAILADDRESS;" If you want to alphabetize and remove duplicates: sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select ZADDRESSNORMALIZED from ZABCDEMAILADDRESS;" | sort | uniq Please note: This works in Leopard, and should work in Tiger too. However, the database filename looks like it could change at a...
published on Thursday, the 28. August 2008, macosxhints