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Favicons

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:33:11 +0100

A Favicon is a little custom icon that appears to the left of a website's URL in the address bar of a web browser. They also show up in your bookmarked sites and on the tabs in tabbed browsers.
 Favicon is short for Favorites Icon.

Sending Folders over the Internet

Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:25:06 +0100

Sometimes you have to send a (compressed) Folder of files to someone over the Internet but you don’t know if they have a Mac or a PC. The problem is that inside your (Mac) Folder there is a hidden file called .DS_Store that can cause problems when the folder is opened on a Windows Vista machine. Apple’s compress function in the finder will not remove this .DS_Store file in the compressed folder.

Automator and MM

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:17:57 +0100

Do you have repetitive tasks to perform on your iDisk or (iWeb) website ?

Ex. every time you update your website with iWeb, do you have to re-upload some files manually?

Let’s try Automator to do this job for us.

iDisk Speed

Sun, 7 Dec 2008 15:37:56 +0100

Did you notice uploading multiple small files takes more time than 1 big file?
Here’s one way to organize your uploads to get a faster result.

1. iDisk via the Finder (local copy turned OFF, see why at the bottom of this page)

Multiple iweb domains

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:06:34 +0100

You can have more than 1 iWeb domain on your computer.

When you open the application iWeb, it will look for the file Domain.sites2 in it’s default location : /Users/your_user_name/Library/Application Support/iWeb/

Locate the Domain.site2 file (it is a Package).

iDisk

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 13:32:43 +0100

Are you having problems uploading files to MobileMe with iDisk in the finder ? Log in with the web interface, select iDisk

CGI scripts

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:49:50 +0200

CGI scripts are great for contact forms.
MobileMe does not support CGI scripts and iWeb has no contact forms feature.

Fortunately most ISP offer some amount of free (included in your subscription) web space and CGI support.

Here’s a workaround to have a CGI form on MobileMe:

1)upload your contact form on a CGI capable server,
2)show the HTML page containing the form with iFrames

iTunes8 Prefs

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:52:23 +0200

With iTunes 8, some preferences are gone.

2 of them, I really miss.
-turn off the genre column in the browser
-turn off links to the iTunes store

Fortunately Rob Griffiths posted some help on Macworld’s Mac OS X Hints. Read his article here

Personal Domain Name Part 2

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:19:45 +0200

You have more than 1 personal domain name and more than one (web)site?

This is for you.

Personal Domain Name

Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:39:42 +0200

You’ve published your website to MobileMe and now you want your personal domain name(s) linked to it?
(search the internet for “domain name registrars” if you don’t have a personal domain name but would like to have one.)

You’ll need your user name and password for your MobileMe account and for your personal domain name(s) account at your domain name registrar.

First : set up your domain name in iWeb.
(Only 1 domain name per MM account. If you have more than 1 domain name, see info below)

Redundant Power Supply DIY part 1

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:10:23 +0200

Do you have some old computers or power supplies (PS) you no longer use?
Turn them in a redundant power supply. Or just use them as a simple power supply for external devices.

You must be older than 18 and know what you’re doing. If not, skip this entry.

Screen Sharing

Sun, 25 May 2008 23:28:51 +0200

Taking over the screen of another Mac has never been easier with the introduction of OSX 10.5 a.k.a Leopard.

Screen sharing capabilities are now available in iChat, in the Finder and... as a stand-alone application : Screen Sharing.app

iChat AV connection problem

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:31:31 +0100

IF
you have a adsl connection to your isp,

AND
you can make a connection but video and/or voice are not good,

TRY : decreasing Bandwidth Limit to a speed where video and audio quality are optimal.
(ichat - preferences - tab Audio/Video)

NEVER : turn off your firewall to ‘solve’ a problem!

Test your Internet Connection Speed

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:17:21 +0200

Do you get the speed you pay for?

At speedtest.net you can test your internet speed and compare it to others.

Opening

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:48:27 +0200

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