Posts Tagged ‘leopard’

Changing the RSS refresh rate in Apple Mail April 29th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

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 [...]

Force Eject a CD/DVD in Apple Leopard February 18th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

Today I had to help a friend force eject a stuck DVD in his iBook, there are a couple of methods we tried and I thought that hey may be helpful for others.
I would recommend trying to eject your stuck CD/DVD in this order;
1) Hold the ‘Eject’ Key for up to 30 [...]

Auto Close Print Queue in OSX Leopard December 28th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

When printing in Leopard, the print queue application remains open after the print job is done. In Tiger and all previous versions of OS X, the application would quit automatically as soon as the print job was finished. I find it very irritating to have to go and quit the application after every print job.
To [...]

Clearing your DNS Cache in OS X December 23rd, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

Anytime you visit a website or do any other kind of DNS (Domain Name System) lookup, the IP address conveniently gets cached. Well today a Graphic Designer I was working with to finish up a site, just couldn’t access the site to see that changes.
He could access every other domain on ether of our [...]

Installing PHP5 and mySQL on Mac OSX Leopard July 26th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

A step-by-step Guide to installing PHP, mySQL and getting them both running together on Apples OSX Leopard. This requires root access and a little Terminal usage.

Installing Windows in my PowerPC iBook running OSX Leopard July 23rd, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum

Installing Windows on a Non-Intel Mac ? You can, and it is pretty easy thank you to Q, A Mac port to run virtual OS’s on your older mac. I now run Leopard 10.5.4 and Windows XP SP3 on my iBook G4.