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Check out this reference page on the Google Apps help site: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892Using Preview to merge and create multi-page PDFs
The Preview.app in 10.5 and newer has many new features. One that appears to be undocumented, however, is the creation (merging) of multi-page PDF documents. It's simple: Use Preview to open up the two PDFs you would like to merge. Choose View ยป Show Sidebar (or click the Sidebar button). Make sure both PDFs are visible on the screen at the same time. When the Sidebar pops out, you will see a graphical representation of the pages in your PDF document. Simply drag the page, or pages (use Coma...Printer Control in a Managed Network Environment
One of my customers recently complained of having to go out to the receptionist's computer and type in an administrator password everytime her local USB printer ran out of paper or got a paper jam. I think I have a fix: Create a new group in Workgroup Manager on the server. Add the user to the new group. Follow these instructions on the local computer with the USB printer attached: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3511 Has worked a treat - the user can pause and resume the printer witho...Software Update AppleScript [Updated]
Check out this site for a handy AppleScript to manage changing between Apple's Software Update Servers and a local Software Update server running on a Mac OS X on your own network. http://neverblog.net/create-an-applescript-gui-to-set-a-local-software-update-server/ While the above script has served it's purpose, I have had to extend it to work with Snow Leopard: display dialog "Set Update Server" buttons {"Cancel", "Apple", "Local"} default button 3 if the button returned of the resul...Leopard and Snow Leopard Cron Jobs
http://www.davidlanier.com/story/cron-and-launchctl-on-mac-os-x-105-leopardSnow Leopard Mail “Copy Address” Preferences
After being frustrated about the "Copy Address" function within Mail 4 in Mac OS X 10.6, I have found a solution: http://macdaddyworld.com/2009/09/14/fixing-copy-address-in-mail-on-10-6 Basically, the trick is to go to Terminal and do the following: defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO Hope that helps someone!Apple Stores offline – is Snow Leopard coming? [Updated]
[Updated 30 minutes later:] Yep - Snow Leopard is "shipping" on August 28, 2009. Good work Apple!Serial Console for Mac OS X
I have been using "screen /dev/tty.xxxxxxxxxxx" for sometime now, but then stumbled upon this old macosxhints.com page: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061109133825654 Check it out if you still have to occasionally use a serial port.Shift “S” and Mac OS X
One of my friends just chatted me online - the "Shift-S" keyboard sequence wasn't working. The "s" key works normally, it works with "Caps Lock, s", but just not with either of the Shift keys. I suggested that she unplug and replug the keyboard, and eventually I resigned to even rebooting the Mac. Turns out that the issue is "Text to Speech" in the Speech System Preference: This frustrated me also. I could not use the shift s key to get a capital s. Here is how I resolved the i...SSH Agent and Leopard
Found this neat summary of the problems that stem from using the SSH Agent.app on Mac OS X 10.4 and then upgrading to 10.5. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5727320 Basically, just check your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file and make sure that the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment is no longer set. Then just log out and log back in again!MacBook Pro Insomnia
I was just reading one of my favourite hard-core Mac techie blogs from Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch and I found this article... hope it helps someone that has issues with their new MacBook Pro (and I suspect it might help 15" users as well!) http://rentzsch.com/bugs/curingMacbookPro17Insomnia All credit goes to Jonathon Rentzsch.How to rebuild software RAID on Mac OS X
Mac OS X: How to rebuild a software RAID mirror Found this great article on the Apple Knowledge Base... just in case anyone else runs into the same problems.LaunchDaemons and Mac OS X – OpenVPN as an example
LaunchDaemons are the new "init" for Mac OS X 10.4 onward. I have successfully used it to start and run OpenVPN on Mac OS X 10.4 Server. Below is the .plist file I created to start and run OpenVPN on Mac OS X 10.4 Label org.openvpn OnDemand Program /usr/local/sbin/openvpn ProgramArguments openvpn --config openvpn.conf RunAtLoad ...Mac OS X clients and Windows Server 2003
Check out this link: I didn't have to search for 6 months, but it is still hard to found out there on the net. http://allinthehead.com/retro/218/accessing-a-windows-2003-share-from-os-xIssues with BigPond Broadband Wireless Crashing on a Mac
I have been working with a consultant who has been travelling around the country with a roadshow and hasn't been able to get his Telstra BigPond Wireless Broadband card working on the new Telstra NextG Network. I had a look at it this morning and checked everything... very weird symptoms - the software would start without the card inserted, but as soon as the card was inserted and the sofftware tried to register the card on the network, it would crash the application and bring up the usual "c...Links
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