Category: Apple

Automator PDF workflows

WARNING: If you are using a PDF Workflow from the Print sheet, then you may have a problem with permissions with the generated PDF. Essentially, your web server won’t see it as world and group permissions are set to nothing.

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Spotlight behind dashboard

That’s weird, after activating dashboard, press cmd+space for spotlight. You can search away and open results, behind dashboard.

PDFs not opening in Firefox

I’ve just noticed that Firefox isn’t opening PDFs internally. I suppose that old PDF plugin is still of some use.

Mintelac

Going by ThinkSecret, the Intel macs are using a different build from those of us on the PowerPC machines. Will this change in the future??? If the build numbers end up the same, it will prove that they are using the same binaries! We’ll just have to wait and see.

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Tiger’s Safari and PDFs

When Tiger’s Safari is loading a PDF why doesn’t it show up the first few pages, while still downloading the rest of the document?

iPod Photo notes

Did you know you can use folders in the notes folder? It will take some time to open the first time, but there after it will open quickly. HTML notes will show up with some formatting, such as an underline.

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Quicktime Update 7.0.1

It seems as though the Quicktime Update for 10.3.9+ has caused Safari to be updated too. It’s had to update all the keychain items.

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Tiger: PSyncX: Fix

If you had PSyncX installed prior to installing Tiger and you did anything other than a clean install then you will need to re-install PSyncX. Thereafter it will work perfectly again!

Mac OS X Tiger: Spotlight: Man Importer

There is actually a useful Spotlight plugin on Apple’s Spotlight page! Unfortunately Spotlight won’t index hidden folders or files, which means that you need a copy of the man pages elsewhere, what a waste of space, but never mind.