b.larik

I assembled a list of Mac OS X Applications I use regularly.

If you’re new to a mac, this list will be very useful. If you’re a long time Mac user, well there is probably something in it for you.

You can find the list on the Mac OS X Applications page.

It would be nice if there would be something like mail profiles separated by tabs in Mail.app. Let me explain what I mean: At home I use Mail.app at home for personal mail and Thunderbird for business mail. At work I use one account with Mail.app and other work accounts with Thunderbird. All accounts are IMAP based. The reason for this setup is, that I like separate accounts in a separate viewing space. That means I don’t want all messages to appear in every viewing space. Some accounts require more attention than others, while others are messages generated from automated systems or shared among multiple users. The problem arises that Thunderbird is not as nicely integrated into Mac OS X (address book, ical, spotlight) as Mail.app. But when I configure Mail.app to handle all accounts it gets very crowded in terms of screen estate and messages. When it is possible to start mail.app and have several mail viewers available for a group of accounts possibly handled by tabs in the viewer window, this would increase productivity. For example:

• tab1 [home]
  • personal@mydomain.domain
  • myother@my2nddomain.domain
• tab2 [work-personal]
  • me@coorporation.domain
• tab3 [work-shared]
  • support@coorporation.domain
• tab4 [system-messages]
  • monitoring@ourcorp.domain
  • cron@ourcorp.domain

When switching tabs, you will get a new viewer (left-pane and right-pane). Of course the icon in the dock, should somehow be configurable to show which messages are unread. I don’t know if someone likes this idea, but I guess it will be useful for many (business) people, but not for average joe with one email account. I for sure hope to see this in the next Mail.app release :-).

A while ago Navicat released Navicat Lite for PostgreSQL. This is a “free for non-commercial use” version of their Navicat for PostgreSQL. You might like it.

While I prefer pgAdmin III, there are some issues with standard pgAdmin on PowerPC Macs with Leopard on them. See also this thread.

After Apple released drivers for various WWAN cards like the Novatel wireless products. The Vodafone Software didn’t work any more, it was conflicting with the Apple provided drivers.

The problem could be worked around in Mac OS X 10.4.9 and the WWAN Support update, by manually removing the WWAN update or just not installing it.

After Apple released the 10.4.10 update, the drivers seem to be included in this update, making the Vodafone Mobile connect software fail again!

I live in the Netherlands and the provided software version of Vodafone Mobile connect is 2.06.05.02.

Poking around in the Vodafone files installed by the installer, it looked like it was developed in Germany, so I went to the German website of Vodafone and there I found a newer version: 2.07.00.00.

After Installing this version, everything worked flawlessly. Your default “Novatel Wireless HSDPA Modem” should be disabled by this software update. See the picture above.

Please uninstall the Vodafone software first before installing a new version.

Just wanted to see if my MacBook Pro was powerfull, in terms of fun things:

MacPower!

The solution below only works for people who are also running PostgreSQL on their Macs.

While I was setting up a new iMac G5 with builtin isight, I ended up playing around with iChat AV and Bonjour connections.

Somehow it didn’t work on my iMac, I was getting an error message after the connection seemed to be initiated. The error message was:

“Can’t get video from the camera”.

I forgot I had this problem before, and more imporantly how I solved it.

Thanks to a link on http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page16.html I found out that the problem was due to a shared memory problem (or shared port problem) between iChat and PostgreSQL.

There are two ways of solving this problem, choose one wich applies to your situation:

1. Decrease shared memory on postgresql
2. Recompile PostgreSQL for use with a different port

Google released three dashboard widgets for Mac OS X Tiger.

One for Blogger, to Quick and easy blog posting, one for Gmail so you can quickly see your inbox, another one for google Search.

Head over to Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac to try them.