I came across this tidbit of information at macosxhints.com that shows you how you can get push email functionality from Apple’s Mail client using Gmail.
the only things you need to do are:
1. Go into Mail » Preferences » Accounts (Advanced) and make sure that Use IDLE command if the server supports it [...]
I’ve been using the Sapphire plug-in for Front Row as a media centre application for a few months now. I like it because it creates virtual directories of TV shows for me. So, I just dump whatever I’ve downloaded into the TV directory, and Sapphire organizes it in a coherent way for me [...]
Versions, a Subversion client for Mac has finally been released in beta form after a year of development. I’d completely forgotten about it, until they emailed me. In fact, I don’t even remember signing up for any development notices. Anyway, it’s free to download, but it expires on July 1st. I [...]
Having a Mac mini as a home theatre PC is great because it allows me to listen to my music collection on my living room sound system. Doing this requires an iTunes library though, so I’ve been looking for a way to synchronize the library on the mini with the library on my iMac.
This [...]
In an earlier post, I was looking for ideas for a home theatre PC. I had no preference at that time, I just wanted something elegant that played all of the popular video encoding formats.
Sean suggested I take a look at the Apple TV, and I remembered hearing that it was easily hackable, and [...]
Man, monoprice.com is awesome! I just bought a 6 ft DVI to HDMI cable, a 6 ft toslink to mini stereo cable, and 100 ft of 18 AWG in-wall speaker cable for $37.17 including shipping. You’re not going to find a better price than that anywhere!
I’m using all this in my new HTPC [...]
I recently had need to change the permissions of a large number of files and directories. The directories needed permissions of 755, and the files needed 644. Since there were several nested directories, this was going to be a real chore until I figured out you could use the find command to help.
find [...]
As I wrote in my last post, I got a new 20″ 2.4GHz iMac yesterday.
My old 20″ iMac was starting to get kernel panics, and after days of troubleshooting, I was able to rule out possible software issues. At one point I decided to format and reinstall OS X, and in the middle of that [...]
I just picked up a new 20″ iMac at lunch today. The logic board on my old one is causing kernel panics, and I’m told a replacement would be $850 + labour…not happening.
Anyway, I’ll post more detail later.
I just got a really nice 21.6″ Samsung SyncMaster 216BW display the other day, and I wanted to use it as the primary display with my iMac. I wanted the menu bar and the dock to be on that display instead of the built-in display.
I had never thought to do this before, so I [...]
