So, after having the problem with ghost unread mail appearing on my iPhone, I then had to deal with this on the Mac Mail app. This has happened before, and can usually be simply fixed by clicking on the offending folder (usually Inbox), then clicking on ‘Mailbox’ in the menu bar, then clicking on ‘Rebuild’ …
iPhone Mail – Ghost Mail Count
Today I had an annoying problem, where the iPhone Mail was claiming I had some unread messages in my inbox, I checked thoroughly, and there wasn’t any unread mail to be found Thankfully the fix for this is pretty simple, and is detailed below 1. Go to Settings 2. Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars 3. …
Re-enable Java 6
If you are running Mac OS X 10.8 and have installed Java 7, as well as the latest Java Update from Apple (Java 2013-002) and have found that some things don’t work with Java 7, and you wish to change back to having version 6 as your default Java installation, then you can download the …
Remove Multiple ‘Open With’ Menu Items – Command Line
So, I had this annoying situation the other day, when I CTRL Clicked on a file and chose Open With, I was presented with this menu Multiple versions of Excel and Word to choose from, probably caused by software updates, anyway, I didn’t like this, it made the menu looked cluttered, so to remove it, …
Creating never booted images – 10.8 – InstaDMG
I’m going to run through the process of creating a never booted image using InstaDMG on Mac OS X 10.8, Once this has been done it will be ready to deploy using Deploystudio. First, you will need to ensure that you have the Command Line Tools installed, you can download them from the Apple Developer …
Managed Preferences – Cache Flush
The other day I was trying to access some restricted preferences on a 10.6 client, bound to a 10.6 Server that no longer existed, and because of this, I had no way of removing the restrictions Or so I thought, thankfully Apple had provided a Knowledge Base article detailing how to manually flush the cache, …
System Preferences – Software Updates – 10.8
Software Updates have now been incorporated into the Mac App Store, which is not something I’m a massive fan of, but I can see why it’s been done. The good news is that you can still update the System software using the softwareupdate command in Terminal, so nothings been broken by this change. Gone is …
System Preferences – Mail, Contacts & Calendar – 10.8
The Mail, Calendar & Contacts preference is the place to set up all of your e-mail and Calendar accounts, it now also has the added Social Media accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr & Vimeo. Adding these accounts makes it a lot simpler to upload or share stuff through these sites, system wide.
System Preferences – Energy Saver – 10.8
The Energy Saver preference has a new addition – Power Nap! This enables your Mac to check for e-mail, calendar and iCloud updates whilst asleep, which is great, as it saves on syncing time when awaking a machine, the downside however is that it uses more power than the conventional sleep mode, so it’s best …