Tag Archives: leopard

Changing the RSS refresh rate in Apple Mail

Posted on April 29, 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, … Continue reading →

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Force Eject a CD/DVD in Apple Leopard

Posted on February 18, 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 … Continue reading →

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Auto Close Print Queue in OSX Leopard

Posted on December 28, 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 … Continue reading →

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Clearing your DNS Cache in OS X

Posted on December 23, 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 … Continue reading →

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Installing PHP5 and mySQL on Mac OSX Leopard

Posted on July 26, 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. Continue reading →

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Installing Windows in my PowerPC iBook running OSX Leopard

Posted on July 23, 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. Continue reading →

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