Microsoft Updates Office 2004 and 2008

Microsoft has released updates for Office 2004 and 2008, which include security fixes for “vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.” The Microsoft Office 2004 11.5.8 update is a mere 9.7 MB, and the Microsoft Office 2008 12.2.4 update is 221.5 MB. If you use […]

Speeding up Apple Mail by Vacuuming?…..

Apple Mail, especially earlier versions of Apple Mail, may start to slow down after a long period of time… Evidently as everyone knows, it is possible to get quite a speed boost out of Mail.app by stripping all the bloat out of its Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store senders, recipients, subjects […]

Duplicate emails being downloaded from Apple Mail?

I\’ve tried everything I know and searched everywhere, but I can\’t find an answer to this problem. Several of my clients have this issue and now I have it, after adding two new accounts to Mail – both of the new accounts are effected, but the older ones work fine. Mail picks up email and […]

Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies

For example, it is not possible to return to the past without changing the past in some way; nor is it possible to change the future based on information from the future.  Doctor Who realized early on that changes to history were hazardous, and avoided them assiduously. Movies built on a time travel theme frequently become dissatisfying […]

Star Trek D.A.C. for Mac

I hate to sound like a me-too-er, but this pretty much sums up my thoughts on Star Trek D.A.C. for Mac. I can\’t believe that I was suckered into purchasing it for $9.95…  Simply don\’t do it.  Instead go find a copy of Asteroids, and you\’ll be much happier… Star Trek: D.A.C. (Deathmatch. Assault. Conquest) is […]

kCGErrorIllegalArgument errors in my log…

Well, if it isn\’t one thing, it has to be another…. I\’ve been suffering with these errors for a while, and I think I just stumbled upon the trigger… 3/9/10 12:37:56 PM [0x0-0x206e06c].com.ranchero.NetNewsWire[97172] Tue Mar  9 12:37:56 dhcp105-37 NetNewsWire[97172] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds: NULL window Here\’s the thread I just found kCGErrorIllegalArgument errors with Camino 2.0.1.  And […]

Disable AirPort when Ethernet cable is connected

From MacOSXHints… At my office, I needed to find a way to turn of the wireless network when someone plugged in their network cable. I also did not want them to be able to turn the wireless network back on until the network cable was unplugged. I came up with the fallowing solution. I created […]