Time Machine is a very simple and elegant backup solution for Mac OS, with an intuitive restore browser. The problem with Time Machine however, is that it takes up all free disk space before starting to erase old backups. This is no problem if you have a dedicated Time Machine disk, but most people usually [...]
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Address Book on Mac shows the wrong certificate
I recently wanted to email a recipient, for which I had the certificate. The problem was however, that he has an old certificate which has expired, and a new valid one. For some reason though, Address Book associates the old certificate with the email address instead of the new one.
I still haven’t found a way [...]
Bought Coda in a big Panic.com sale
I have long been looking for the perfect editor for my Mac. Ever since I bought the latest Macheist bundle I have been using Espresso, which has been working fairly well. It is a very immature editor though with lots of essential features missing.
I heard that Panic is having a sale on Coda (hurry, two [...]
Things vs The Hit List vs Omnifocus
I have been using Things for a long time, both on my Mac and iPhone. While being very good at what it does and being visually beautiful, I have lately been having lots of trouble finding a good solution for a “Waiting For” focus, planner, setting a starting date, subtasks and other minor things. Their [...]
Safe document writing using Dropbox
Lots of people who write articles or create content in any form, often find themselves generating lots of files. A writer will for instance probably have lots of article drafts laying around. Everyone have different solutions for revision control and backup, ranging from a simple manual file copy to using a full-fledged revision control system [...]
4 Essential Mac Applications, and 1 bonus
My brother was recently in the market for a new laptop, and I helped him with the reasearch as usual. He ended up with a Macbook in the end, and being a first-time Mac user I of course helped him get started.
What I didn’t realize is that there are some essential applications I have collected [...]
Enable 1Password in Safari 4 beta
Apple just released a beta version of Safari 4 with lots of new features. Users of 1Password might notice that it doesn’t work in the new version. To fix this, close Safari and 1Password and edit the following file:
/Applications/1Password.app/Contents/Resources/SupportedBrowsers.plist
Find the Key named Safari and look for MaxBundleVersion underneath. You will see 5528.1 as the maximum version. Change [...]
Mac OS X 10.5.6 released
OS X 10.5.6 has now been released! Lots of things has been updated, and some highlights follow:
Address Book
Airport
iChat
Graphics
Mail
MobileMe
Time Machine
Safari
… and more!
Macrumors has the details on their forum.
Some people have been reporting problems with the update as usual. If in trouble, just get the Combo Update directly from Apple.
Notebook 3 – OneNote for Mac?
Since switching to a Mac, there has always been one application for which I haven’t been able to find an equivalent. Windows users will undoubtedly have heard of Microsoft OneNote, which is the de-facto note taking application. Linux users have had Basket which does the same thing, but perhaps not as feature rich as OneNote.
There are lots [...]