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Interesting bug in Importing to Apple Mail from Entourage 2008


Published on August 6th, 2010
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If you have a large number of items in a single mailbox in Entourage, when you import into Apple Mail it will import no more than 6000 items from one mailbox. So, if you have 17,000-odd items in your Sent Items (as a client of mine does) it takes three goes to import, delete, import, [...]

Remotely rebooting an Xserve without ssh access


Published on August 4th, 2010
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Read this carefully as it may save you a long drive on a cold night, as it did for me. So, I’m working on an Xserve somewhere over the other side of Melbourne, logged in to the VPN (fortunately through an appliance, not on the Xserve) and using ARD. The Xserve is playing a bit [...]

User Interface Design Framework


Published on July 30th, 2010
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Over on the Webalys blog, there’s an excellent

Safari 5.0.1 Released


Published on July 29th, 2010
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Apple have released Safari 5.0.1 today which, among other things, fixes a bug in WebKit that makes the body of a Mail message have a black background when there’s an attachment inserted automatically – for example if you send an email with an AppleScript.

Solution for playing media on the PS3 from your Mac


Published on July 29th, 2010
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I’ve been looking into Playback recently as an option for playing back media files on the PS3. Playback is great in that it also allows you to stream media to your PS3, even if it’s in a format that the PS3 doesn’t natively recognise (yes, I’m looking at you mkv!) On my Mac Pro, it’s [...]

Graffiti Analysis


Published on June 29th, 2010
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Love it or hate it, you have to admit that there is a style to graffiti – a modern calligraphy even. This project aims to preserve not only the look of graffiti, but the motion of the pen in creating it. Then there are some great visualisations applied to the path – check it out: [...]

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