Leopard

Use Apple Mail in Leopard? This book may be for you

I don’t really use Apple Mail myself — these days I do all my email via the Gmail web interface. Plenty of people out there do use Mail.app, and may find the Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard ebook useful: You’ll learn how to use and customize the Mail window, control the size and [...]

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Mac OS X and the php.ini upload limit

Finding and fixing php.ini upload limits on Mac OS X. Last night I was messing round exporting a WordPress blog and importing it into WordPress on my own Mac so I can play around with the design. The MacTips blog I exported has almost 900 posts (ie 900 Tips). The downloaded file was 2.1Mb. That’s [...]

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Leopard, Spaces and Desktop Pictures

One of the nicest things about Leopard’s Spaces is being able to press Control Arrow to slide everything out of the way and view an empty Space. Thanks to Pic-a-Pod the desktop pictures on my MacBook are always gorgeous. When I’m working on a hard or annoying problem I just slide the work to one [...]

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Improve on Leopard’s screen sharing

Wow, it was about two and a half years ago that I acquired the Mac mini that now makes up a useful part of my network, serving up some files, handling my webcam and generally being available for ‘stuff’. I wrote about it in VoiceOver saves the day. Because I operate the Mac mini ‘headless’, [...]

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