Posted November 6th, 2007 in Tutorials
Tags: leopard mac ichat
One of the new features of Mac OS 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, is .Mac’s Back to My Mac, a way to connect to your computer at home remotely. Back to My Mac allows a user log into another Mac remotely via internet. This is a great feature but it is only available if you are a .Mac subscriber. However, the new iChat supports Screen Sharing, so the only thing to figure out is how to auto-accept a Screen Share invitation and how to do it securely. This quick tutorial will show you how set up iChat to do just that.
Requirements:
This set up requires that both computers run Leopard. If you don’t have it yet, here’s the Amazon link to buy it. It is well worth the price. You also need two separate iChat supported IM accounts, one for each computer. This could be AIM, .Mac or Jabber accounts.
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Posted July 5th, 2007 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials
The iPhone comes with probably the best email application on a mobile device. The problem is that if I read and delete an email on the iPhone, when I get to my laptop I need to do it all over again because my email uses the POP email protocol. And this is cramping my style. With the POP protocol, email is downloaded from the server and stored on my computer. The most recent emails stay on the server usually for a week or two and that’s why multiple devices re-download the same emails. A more productive system is to use the IMAP email protocol. With IMAP, all email stays on the server. If you delete an email on the iPhone, it is deleted when I get to my computer. I only have to do things once and that’s the beauty of it.
In this tutorial I’m going to show how to switch an account from POP to IMAP. And to be honest, you don’t need an iPhone to benefit from this setup. IMAP will allow you to check your email from work or some one else’s computer and have access to all of you email folders and sent emails. This is not for web services like Google or Hotmail, although as long as it supports IMAP it doesn’t really matter.
This example uses Apple’s Mail in Tiger. But, I believe IMAP was supported in Panther as well.
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Posted March 2nd, 2007 in Tutorials
Posted June 18th, 2006 in Tutorials, Wordpress
This is a quick tutorial on how to have WordPress show a custom error page when there’s a database connection error. This tutorial covers WordPress 2.0.1.
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Posted June 2nd, 2006 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials, Web
I got a frantic call from my wife who’s visiting my sister in NY. It seems her iBook has that forever spinning wheel we’ve all had to face at some point or another. After talking to her, I deducted it was a corrupt image in her iPhoto library. Probably from her last import. It’s happened twice before. The problem is that although she’s a digital lifestyle junkie, she relies on me to fix any technical issues and I’m in LA. So I venture out online to see if I can tap into her computer remotely and was delighted to find out Timbuktu’s new Skype ‘tunnel’ feature. The New Timbuktu Pro uses Skype’s connection to pass through routers and firewalls and establish a direct connection. In the past, you could only connect remotely if you had a static IP address, something most people don’t have. Best of all, you can connect to a Mac or a PC.
So here’s a tutorial on how to connect remotely to another computer over the internet with Timbuktu and Skype.
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Posted April 14th, 2006 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials
The default interface for Mail signatures allows you to do rich text signatures using the fonts and colors palette. You can even drag an image into the compose signature window and it will be included in every email as an attachment. This is fine for most people, but attachments should be just that, an attachment of a file I am sending, not an image in my signature. So here’s an easy guide on how to do CSS signatures referencing images on an outside server and not as an attachment.
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Posted March 7th, 2006 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials
Most people I know don’t know that iPhoto can be tagged with keywords. Or if they do they don’t know how to use them. They’re not to blame, iPhoto has always had an awkward implementation of keywords. iPhoto 06 improves on keywords but they are still confusing to most users I know. So here’s a quick tutorial on setting up and managing keywords in iPhoto. This tutorial uses iPhoto 06, but it can be implemented in earlier versions that support keywords.
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Posted August 25th, 2005 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials, Web, Wordpress
This guide will help you run Wordpress(the blog app that runs this website) in your own personal Mac for testing purposes or for backing up your blog. On WordPress on Mac - Part 1: PHP & Mysql we covered installing PHP and MySQL. On WordPress on Mac Part 2: Sub-Domains we covered setting up local sub-domains. On Step 3 we’ll cover how to install WordPress.
The steps we’ll take:
Step 1: Download and Install CocoaMySQL
Step 2: Create Database
Step 3: Download WordPress
Step 4: Install WordPress
Step 5: Permalinks
Technorati Tags: apple, blog, mac, web design, wordpress
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Posted August 23rd, 2005 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials, Web, Wordpress
This guide will help you run Wordpress(the blog app that runs this website) in your own personal Mac for testing purposes or for backing up your blog. On WordPress on Mac - Part 1: PHP & Mysql we covered installing PHP and MySQL. On part two we’ll cover setting up local sub-domains. What is a sub-domain and why do I need one? Sub-domains are websites with absolute URLs that are accessed via a prefix to the url i.e.the server mail.earthlink.net is a sub-domain of earthlink.net. Why do I want to do this locally? Because it will make it possible to mimic your website structure locally. In other words, it’s all about file paths. If you set it up your images and link will work, if not, you’ll have broken links and images.
Technorati Tags: apple, mac, web design, wordpress
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Posted August 22nd, 2005 in Mac Geekery, Tutorials, Web, Wordpress
This guide will help you run Wordpress (the blog application that runs this website) in your own personal Mac for testing purposes or for backing up your blog. This Tutorial will cover installing PHP and MySQL, setting up local sub-domains and installing Wordpress. Why would you want to do this? Well, because you can. Mac OS X is built on Unix which gives us access some very cool things like the Apache server. Local development is great because you can develop even when you don’t have an internet connection like when traveling on a plane.
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