howto fix apple mail to send to bellsouth email servers
i just migrated over from microsoft entourage 2008 to apple mail. i never had issues sending from entourage, but in apple mail I couldn’t send. so i fiddled with the settings and i was able to determine the following.
In Entourage - i just used my username (for example “jdoe”) for connecting to the mail.bellsouth.net and […]
howto migrate microsoft entourage 2008 to apple mail 3.2
as i stated in an earlier post. im fed up with entourage. here is how i migrated over to apple mail 3.2.
its really pretty simple…
1. open apple mail
2. click file
3. click import mailboxes
4. select microsoft entourage
5. click continue
6. apple mail will then import one folder at a time from microsoft entourage to apple mail. it […]
microsoft entourage 2008 and sync service problems
the other night i really got fed up with entourage 2008. i have been using entourage for a long time at home and at work. what really gets me going is how much of a hog microsoft entourage sync service is. it sucks ram like a pig. i have been checking it in activity monitor […]
how to flush dns in mac osx leopard with terminal
we moved a server today and i was messing with the host file on my mac pro. afterwards i had to flush the dns so the new site would appear. i could not for the life of me remember the terminal command for flushing the dns. here are the steps:
1. open terminal
2. type the following […]
fujitsu snapscan s510m thoughts and review part one
i have to say my first couple days with the fujitsu snapscan s510m have been pretty impressive. i was worried that it might fit the bill or live up to my expectations, but so far it has been a champ! i guess before i start elaborating too much i should show off some geek pr0n […]
declutter your dock with quicksilver
im a big fan of quicksilver. it’s the app i use every day of every week - all-day-long. this post isn’t about how i’m a quicksilver fanboy or anything, it’s just about how i use it to de-clutter my dock. if you are a mac user and dont know what quicksilver does check these tutorials […]
quicksilver crash fix
this morning i was using quicksilver [one of my favorite mac apps] and it started crashing over and over upon launching. after some research i found that inside ~/library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Shelves there was a 600 mb history file for the copy/paste utility called QSPasteboardHistory.qsshelf. after deleting that file, quicksilver stopped crashing and started working much faster […]
remove dot-underscore files
last night i had to upload some pdf’s to a website for my wife. i was on my mac, and zipped the pdf’s an ftp’d them over to the site, dropped in a link on the webpage and called it a night. well this morning the wife gets about 50+ calls emails that the files […]
1password review 1coolapp
tonight, i wanted to write a little about one of my super-favorite-most-awesome mac apps… 1password. this is one of those apps, that i don’t know what i would do without it. 1password is so ingrained into my daily life that its almost a digital extension of me. i cannot say enough to express just how […]
resetting ram in os x
ive been having some issues with ram lately, and found a solution on apples website that has helped. i hope this might come in handy for someone else.
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