Mail may unexpectedly quit with Safari 4 Public Beta and GrowlMail installed
Mail may unexpectedly quit with Safari 4 Public Beta and GrowlMail installed
After installing Safari 4 Public Beta in Mac OS X v10.5.6, Mail may unexpectedly quit when opened if a third-party Mail plugin is installed.
(Via Most Recent.)
Did you install the new Safari 4 Public Beta, and now your Mail application keeps crashing? It could be because you have GrowlMail installed. Try disabling Growl to see if it helps your situation. Or better yet, remove GrowlMail completely.
Path Finder Updated to v5.0.9
Path Finder is a file browser that has a streamlined, beautiful new interface, lots of new features, and tons of improvements and fixes throughout. It has been completely rewritten and optimized for Mac OS X 10.5 and represents over a year and half of hard work. (Via Mac Update.)
I began using Path Finder myself a little over 3 weeks ago, and already find it to be one of the most indispensable applications I own. And that’s coming from a hard-core Finder wonk. With a plethora of cool features–both obvious and hidden–this app won me over quick, which is not an easy thing to do when it comes to shareware.
If you haven’t looked at Path Finder recently, I recommend you do–just to see what you might be missing.
Vintage and obsolete products
Vintage and obsolete products
Apple has discontinued support for certain technologically obsolete and vintage products.
(Via Most Recent.)
The list of vintage and obsolete product continues to grow. How many of them do you still have in operation in your home or business?
RUMOR: Apple iPhone Coming to Verizon Wireless Soon
RUMOR: Apple iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless soon
Apple is certain to allow Verizon to join its elite band of Iphone providers, bringing to an end the exclusive…
(Via MacDailyNews.)
Man, if there were any meat to this rumor, I’d be one of the first in line to sign up…but I have my doubts.
Here’s Proof You Should Be Backing Up!
So, it finally happened to me (again). A Mac died on me without any kind of backup for it. I couldn’t be more disappointed in myself for letting it happen too.
The family 17″ iMac G5 iSight went belly up after my daughter accidentally shut it down hard. None of the voodoo I’ve learned in my 20 years as a Mac user could get the internal disk to be seen again. Open Firmware resets, SMU resets, PRAM zaps, swift kicks, small animal sacrifices. Nothing even made the drive spin up, which means one of two things. The drive has a bad case of sticksion, or the drive controller on the motherboard is the problem (others have reported the problem with this iMac model). If it’s the latter, it looks like I’ll end up with a stylish doorstop, and I’ll be buying new hardware this weekend. I haven’t decided if I want to tackle tearing the machine apart to replace the drive. Having done it once for someone else, it was about as enjoyable as pulling teeth.
Anyway… If you ever needed proof that you should be backing up your ENTIRE system on a regular basis, let this post be what gets you to make a change. My wife and kids have lost years worth of photos, emails, school projects, music and heaven knows what else. It’s never a matter of IF it will happen, it’s a matter of WHEN. Don’t gamble like I did. Get a backup plan in place and stick to it faithfully. I’m wishing I had…
Always Do Your Own Usability Tests
I learned a valuable lesson the hard way today. The lesson being, always test your WordPress site after you activate or deactivate a plugin.
It turns out using the WordPress Multibox Plugin on my site was locking visitors out from being able to download zip compressed files if that download link used an image for the link. It’s been going on for at least 2 or 3 weeks. I’m baffled as to why it took that long to hear from anyone.
The cause was that the image, which is a .gif, was listed as one of the image types the plugin should apply to. Since I probably won’t use a .gif for anything I’d want the Multibox Plugin to act on, I removed it from the list of file extensions. Problem solved easily.
So, the moral of the story is test, test again and then test some more when making any kind of change to your site.
