Leopard User blogs

Use Internet Explorer in OS X -- Without Virtualization!

skaura — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:19:19 -0600

Attention: web developers (with Intel-based Macs). Marvel in all that is ie4osx -- a tool that allows you to run Internet Explorer without having to start (ram hungry) Parallels or Fusion.

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Zoom in/out of your OSX Desktop

skaura — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:50:19 -0600

Doesn't it suck when you want to check out somebody's Facebook profile pic but they have their privacy settings so you can't zoom in? Well fear not -- with today's tip you can easily zoom in and resume your ~~stalking~~ surfing...

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How to fix Garbled Characters in Apple Mail

skaura — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:45:39 -0600

Last night I installed Adobe Font Folio: I was trying to get inspired for a brochure I'm working on. After installing 300+ fonts and spending a good hour browsing through them I decided to check my email. I was definitely not amused when I got the following:

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Installing HTTPMail for Leopard Upgraders

skaura — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:18:47 -0600

As readers of this blog know, accessing Hotmail via Apple Mail using HTTPMail doesn't work. Judging by the amount of hits to this blog, many Leopard users made do with the fix I suggested (see this link for details). However, even I stated that it was only to tide us die-hard Hotmail-Leopard users over until Daniel Parnell was able to update his code to be Leopard compatible.

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Leopard, Apple Mail, and Hotmail : How I got everything to work together with FreePOPs

skaura — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:44:51 -0600

Being able to check my mail has always been a simple task with Apple Mail. All of my accounts: Gmail, Hotmail, work, and school have always worked without a hitch. However, as Leopard users around the world are aware, Hotmail no longer works with the infamous HTTPMail plugin for Mail.

Click the title so see how you can get Hotmail working with Apple Mail...

C++ and OS X

skaura — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:48:46 -0600

I do a lot of C++ coding. Over the past few years I've seen Eclipse mature into a full blown C++ IDE and I use it religiously. Partly because it's portable: any operating system I am on has a version of Eclipse available to it. Not that I don't like XCode. I just don't do enough OS X specific application development to make it my full time IDE.
Click to read about my experience with C++ linking errors...

Enhanced Workflow: The Keyboard

skaura — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:27:42 -0500

My Macbook Pro is essential to my daily routine. I take it with me to school and work on it all day; I bring it back home in the evening and work on my website stuff. At both places I have custom workstations (ie. a 2nd monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse). At home I use an Apple keyboard; at school I use a Saitek gaming keyboard (trust me, it's great for marathon coding sessions). The ~~problem~~ annoyance has been that the keyboard layouts differ between the two. Click to read about a cool keyboard function of Leopard...

Instant File Preview

skaura — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:48:51 -0500

Although I am a fan of coverflow, it is distracting: it takes up too much of my finder window and is only useful when documents are "previewable"(ie. PDF files, pictures, etc). Today I mistakingly discovered something very useful -- instant file preview (I'm making the name up, as I don't know what it is really called). What I really like, is that you are still able to navigate the finder and have a preview available at the same time. This is especially useful if you format the screen to have the preview on one side and the finder on the other OR even better -- multiple displays...

The First Day

skaura — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:03:06 -0500

Well, I can officially say I've been using Leopard for about a day (minus, of course, the 5 hours of sleep I got). As much as I'd like to say I'm wowed -- I'm really not. Perhaps it's the critical coder in me that sees right through the eye candy; perhaps it's the Linux aficionado recognizing that although the environment is cool, it is hardly unique. Click to read my first impressions...

Installation Process and Adobe Lightroom?

skaura — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:44:37 -0500

Adobe Lightroom Incompatibility

Well, I finally got around to upgrading. Confident that if something went wrong: 1) I had everything backed up 2) I have a few extra hours to troubleshoot... just in case.