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 [...]
Cleaning my Apple Mighty Mouse Ball's April 29th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum
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 [...]
Hack Safari to open links in new tabs, not new windows March 11th, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum
Safari (by default) will open certain links (e.g. target=”_blank”) in a new browser window instead of a new tab even if you have your preferences set no too. Fortunately, there is a hidden preference you can set to force Safari to behave.
If you run this command in Terminal /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
to disable [...]
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 [...]
CSS Fix for SPAW Editor & Safari January 22nd, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum
Over the last couple of years I have used the SPAW WYSIWYG Editor for my site management and clients sites CMS systems.
Ryan Stemkoski and I used it in our Zipline ZLCMS Package that is now in use in over 300 sites and have found it to be a great editor, and now I am [...]
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.
I love apple July 20th, 2008 by Sheldon Lendrum
Mac fans are increasing, as they should! and man that makes me happy.
