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Cleaning my Apple Mighty Mouse Ball's

I have a couple of Apple Mac’s and with each of them, I have a Mighty Mouse.
I have one I carry with my with my Mac Book Pro, this is getting quite old now, It was the first release of the Wireless model, I pre-ordered it as soon as they were announced and have used it on almost a daily basis since.

I also have one on my iMac which gets a daily use also.

These mice are Great ! there are 5 buttons, the 5th is the 360 degree scroll ball. The wired model is very light and agile, while the wireless model is slightly heavier due to the batteries, but if you only use one AA rather than two, it is only ever so slightly heavier than the wired, and still not as heavy as most.

The only Issue I with these mice are the Ball’s get dirty from your finger being rolled over them on a continuous basis. Apple have an article and QT Movie on how to clean them, and plenty of discussions on the Apple forums, but the simple method is rolling it on paper.

Roll to Clean your Balls !

A way to clean the mighty mouse ball that I have always used, is turn it off ( or un-plug ), and get a clean sheet of paper, and upside down, and firmly roll the mouse around on the ball.

Cleaning the Mighty's Balls

Cleaning the Mighty's Balls

Changing the RSS refresh rate in Apple Mail

I use Apple’s Mail App as my primary mail client on both my personal and work mac’s, and for both machines I have various RSS Feeds subscribed.
I use apple mail as an RSS Client for a couple of reasons,

1) I just like how it works
2) its not just one more application I have to have open.

Recently though, I have found that none of the 30 or so feeds I am subscribed to were pulling any new posts.
I found this Odd, espically I know that multiple of them update daily. I did a bit of digging around, and have found a simple terminal command to alter the refresh rate that Mail will check for feed updates.

The default time is 30 minutes, admin the preferences you can set it to manually, 30 minutes, hourly or daily.

Apple Mail RSS Refresh Rate

Apple Mail RSS Refresh Rate

I changed these around then back to 30 minutes, and waiting an hour, but still NO feeds were updating.

After a little more digging, I found a terminal command that you can specify and refresh rate.

Specify the Refresh rate in Terminal !

  1. Quit Mail
  2. Open Terminal – /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
  3. Type: 
    defaults write com.apple.mail RSSPollTime xx

    ** Replace the ‘nn’ with minutes, EG: 

    defaults write com.apple.mail RSSPollTime 20
  4. Open Mail

This worked for me, and within the next 20 mintues, I had all the posts that I was missing for the last week that I didn’t get any.

Pretty lucky, as I was missing out some some pretty good stuff!

Saturday & Sunday Days 10 & 11

So, Its the weekend, It has been a busy yet unproductive weekend, and thats just how I like it.

I started my weekend in style, I took Jen out for a nice Indian Curry for dinner ( Butter Chicken ). That was YUM. We went to a local bar for a drink afterwards called ‘The Budda Lounge’ here in Tauranga, which is actually where we go for Salsa on thursdays.

After Dinner we watched ‘‘.

On saturday, after weeks of promising I cooked Jen breakfast in bed, well it turned out to be lunch, outside in the sun by the time we got up and got semi productive for a saturday. It was nice.
Bacon, Chicken ( PreRoasted from the grocery Store)) bun’s avacado, tomato, sun-dried tomato, bre cheese …. beer ….

On Saturday Night I had to babysite my Niece and Nephew Claire (4) Harrison (2) while my brother went out, So Jen came and we watched TV Movies.

Today I havn’t done much, I went out for lunch, pottered around playing on the Net, had maybe 3 beers and a 8% woodies and thats about it :)

This week coming should be busy, Some new projects starting and finishing of others. It should be a productive week.

I got Jen some flowers just as a little surprise.
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Friday, Day 9

Friday,

Today, I am working in the office, Cleaning up a site I wrote yesterday, validating, design tweaks and that sort of stuff.

Also today I started really playing with an iPhone Web Framework WebApp.

I have a web app to build over the next month, and am really liking how easy, yet functional this frame work is.

basically its a structure, using basic ( pre written ) CSS classes and ID’s for the formatting/functionality. XML, AJAX.

Heading out to dinner with Jen tonight, not sure where or what… Suggestions are welcome.

Lunch, Yes that is Marmite & Boiled egg on toast ! && It was YUM !

Tuesday & Wednesday, Days 6 & 7

I missed Yesterday, was both busy, and slack.

Today I started building out a got it probably 80% functional, which I am pretty happy about.
Yesterday I was working in the office, and all this week I have been trying to get my phone sorted out.
Over a week ago I moved my Telecom number to vodafone so I can use an iPhone.

After a mess around from Vodafone, I am now connected, same number, new service provider, and no text messages! Vodafone are having ‘Issues’ with ported numbers not being able to send text’s, I can receive but it is very frustrating.

Quick post for today, Photo taken while talking to Jen on the Phone.