Backing up Apple Mail’s Junkmail filter

Folks, I normally recommend backing up the entire mail folder (~/library/mail), when you need to backup your Apple Mail…  But what if you want to share your junk mail filter data to another computer?  For example, your significant other’s computer… Copy the ~/library/mail/LSMMap2 file to the other computer, but don’t yet put it into Apple […]

Dungeons and Dragons Online: behold the power of free

Evidently Dungeons & Dragons Online, has returned to being free.  There is no longer a monthly charge for the MMO.  But if you subscribe, you get additional perks which you can use to aid your character… Of course, there’s no way a Macintosh user would ever want to play a MMO.  Those Macintosh users of […]

Apple indicates iTunes LP charges are fiction.

Brian McKinney, who runs Chicago’s Chocolate Lab Records, claimed at the weekend that iTunes charges a $10,000 production fee for iTunes LP, a new digital format that pairs additional content such as lyrics and videos with album downloads. In a follow up email, Mckinney adds, “I should note that it is currently possible to design an […]

Preference plist was NOT a dictionary.

It’s not a dictionary?  Well, that’s right!  My preferences aren’t a dictionary…. Updated 10/27/2009, with a potential solution… Updated 02/13/2010, with a solution… Seriously though, if you see the following in your console log: 9/18/09 12:36:49 PM PreferenceSyncClient[60967] Preference plist was NOT a dictionary. 9/18/09 12:36:49 PM PreferenceSyncClient[60967] Preference plist was NOT a dictionary. 9/18/09 […]

Apple clarifies iPhone anti-phishing feature

Though the recent iPhone 3.1 update added support for protecting against phishing sites, there were concerns that it didn’t catch any. But, as it turns out, that’s mainly because activating the feature requires a few more steps that most users didn’t know about. The Anti-phishing database is initially downloaded only when three conditions are met: […]

Having slow downloads, maybe you have a corrupt preference file?

I haven’t seen this issue, but this Apple Support Forums discussion (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2072449&tstart=25 ), discusses a non-obvious troubleshoot step to take if you are experiencing seriously degraded download performance. Quit Safari In your home folder open Library –> Safari Drag your downloads.plist file to the desktop Open Safari Attempt an download, and compare the speed of […]

Why I’m Annoyed At AT&T: They Can’t Handle The iPhone

Here! Here! Finally someone pointing out the samething that I have said here at work. I am very eager to see Apple shake up the Cellular market from the inside out… Webomatic discusses how Apple can change the cell market, and why he is eager for it… in Why I’m Annoyed At AT&T: They Can’t […]