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’ …
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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. …
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, …
System Preferences – General – 10.8
I thought I’d do a series on System Preferences in 10.8, as these have changed a little from what people are used to, and some have a few options that can re-enable ‘lost’ features So, I’ll start with General Here, the most useful options for bringing back old features are as follows Show …
Open Quicktime Movie Fullscreen & Loop – 10.8
I had the task of setting some TV’s to show QuickTime movies on a loop, Fullscreen This was a little trickier than it used to be, as some of the commands in Applescript have changed over the years, you’ll find below the script I ended up using, this starts off by checking if QuickTime Player …
Quickly Encrypt External Drives – 10.8
Since 10.8 was released you now have a quicker option for encrypting exetrnal devices, like USB Keys or External Hard Drives I’ve had some issues with this on FAT formatted drives, but its worked fine with HFS (Mac) formatted drives It really couldn’t be simpler Insert a USB Key, or FireWire drive into …
Use a Song as an alarm on your iOS device
SO, for years I’ve had the Duck as my alarm on my iPhone, and it’s annoying, so it always woke me up, but I thought there must be a better way to wake up, had a little google and found an article showing that I could use a song stored on my iPhone to …
CUPS – Web Interface disabled
If you’ve been trying to access the CUPS web interface on Mac OS X 10.8 then you may have run into this error message “The web interface is currently disabled. Run “cupsctl WebInterface=yes” to enable it” (to access CUPS, Open Safari & type http://localhost:631 in the address bar) To rectify this, you basically do as …
SugarSync Issues – not syncing
SugarSync is a cloud based data syncing service, similar to Dropbox, but with a higher storage allocation for a free account (5GB as opposed to 2GB with Dropbox) and a few other features which put it above Dropbox in terms of value. For a full list of benefits versus other cloud syncing services, check out …
Sophos – 2 icons in the menubar
So, if you have recently updated your Sophos to the shiny new version (8), then you may have come across the following oddity, 2 Sophos icons in the menubar Now I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling, that doesn’t resolve it, the issue is with a (now defunct) login item left behind from the older versions of …