Under Panther, and it seems in Tiger as well, when I have a webdav server mounted sometimes the system locks up. Applications will lock while trying to open the Open File dialog, the Finder locks, etc.
The solution is to keep Activity Monitor on your dock. If this happens to you, launch Activity monitor and open the activity window (cmd-1). Then search for webdav and find the mount_webdav process. Then select the process and use the quit button to quit it. This will unmount your server and free up the blocked applications.
LaunchServices keeps track of which applications have been opened and which applications should open which documents. I’ve found that this database, which is sprawled in several locations on your drive, can become bloated or even corrupted.
Fortunately, Cocktail makes this easy to reset to the default state, which I suggest you do if you are seeing the same application in your Get Info “Open With” dialog or can’t change the application to open a file with.
Just launch Cocktail, click System, then Misc and rebuild the Launch Services database.
If you have a hard disk that you use for backing up, say with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!, I suggest you add that volume to the Spotlight Privacy list, as not only will you duplicate your index size, but the system will try to index the volume as it’s being indexed by Spotlight.
This means that you won’t be able to search the volume, but should you need to, you can enable spotlight and let it index then.
Move To Applications Workflow is a workflow that will move the selected files into your Applications folder. Useful for applications on the desktop or in a disk image you want to install quickly.
Simply:
Expand the archive
Double-click the Move to Applications workflow file to open in Automator
Choose “Save as Plugin” from the File menu
Name it what you want and save for “Finder”
You can now control-click (right click) on a file and go to Automator menu item in the contextual menu, and choose Move to Applications.
Or modify the original and make other useful workflows!
Sadly Tiger’s Mail has removed any indication of mail activity from the browser window. So now you either need to show the Activity Window (cmd-0) or undisclose the InBox so you can see each and every account mailbox, which will have little spinning indicators next to them while checking mail.
Tiger comes to the rescue! In Tiger, iSync is broken into two somewhat confusing pieces.
.Mac Sync - This is found in your .Mac System Preference pane and is used for synching to .Mac between Mac’s only
iSync - In /Applications you’ll still find iSync, used to sync your Mac to your devices, such as your iPod and P900 phone.
When you add your phone, iSync will download some code to the phone to handle the sync. This is much, much, much more reliable than the old method of using the Sony code. Thank you Apple, finally!
Note that the iSync menu no longer opens the iSync application, but rather the preference pane. I think Apple needs a third pass at this to integrate it again, but for now, sync your phone with the iSync application.
How bad can this party get? The Republicans just changed the ethics rules again to allow any party to stalemate any ethics investigations. Hmm, interesting, no?
The winner is Amazon, with its line of “back” massagers. What a joke this society is we live in that makes a company feel they need to lie about their products.
Tonight I graduated to second level Orange belt in Taekwondo from the ATA. It wasn’t too tough, even though I had missed a lot of classes. Yellow belt will prove more interesting
Favorite moment from Maccamp Spring 2005: Erik Rogers making fun of the “Mac Fetish” handbag doorprize, mocking “Is it made of….. PLEATHER?” and then winning said door prize.
I just got back from the 40th Maccamp (20 years, go PMUG!) and I had a blast! I’ll write more later, but here are some photos and a very special thank you to The Mac Store and Erick Laabs for all of the wonderful prizes, including Albert the Tiger!
Maccamp would not be so much fun without the tireless efforts of Charles, Janet, Marge, Peren and all of the wonderful volunteers.
The gaming cabin would not be the same without Erik, Monroe, Rick, Sandy and Burl.
Thank you all again for a wonderful, fun filled weekend!
ABC in its continuing screwing of the timeline has decided to run Alias from 9:01-10:02. So since I don’t want to miss the last 2 minutes of a show, nor support this kind of crap, I’ve cancelled one of my favorite shows.
It looks like Congress is going to keep their track record of horrible decision making and nominate John Bolton as Ambassador to the UN.
This is the man who in 1994 said the UN doesn’t exist, said that if the top 10 floors of the UN just disappeared nothing would change and whose own previous supporters call a “kiss up, kick down kinda guy”
Can our current government be any more embarrassing and detrimental to our country? It is hard to image how so.
I just noticed that lost is set to record from 8:00 to 9:01pm. Screw you. It’s off my TiVo.
When these damned networks learn they can’t screw with my desire to watch TV when I want, I might come back to them.
Starting a show a minute late is bad enough, but actually setting the end time a minute late, causing an another show to be “lost” entirely has gone too far.
Popular Front: SnowDays is a very cool site where you can make your own snowflake, put your name and email on it, and have people contact you when they click your snowflake as it falls.
