From the category archives:

Snackin' on my Mac

Convert Mac Icon File into Useable Web Graphic

by antbrown on September 25, 2008

With all these fancy-free Mac Icons you can download, why not spice up your web applications and use them online?

The problem is that the Icon files can’t be opened by Photoshop (there might be a plug-in I’m unaware of that does this). So we need a way of importing the graphic into Photoshop.

Luckily you can do this by simply copying the icon to the clipboard and then pasting it into Photoshop, here’s the process:
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Can’t delete mail in Mail

by antbrown on February 7, 2008

This damn near drove me insane for a few months. However I never looked for a solution, never read the manual (who does?) and never asked anyone. I just silently stared at my email that couldn’t be deleted…

Until today.

Finally I figured you can click on Mailbox and then Rebuild and it fixes everything up just fine! Apparently it also fixes a lot of other bits and pieces that can go wrong in Apple Mail.

Another reason you could be getting all these deleted messages hanging around is if you’ve inadvertently pressed Cmd+L. This turns on “Show Deleted Messages” which you probably don’t want.

Hope that helps,

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Clear DNS cache on your Mac in Terminal

July 2, 2007

I know this is posted all over the Internet, but I keep forgetting it and someone may find it useful if they can’t find it anywhere else. It basically flushes your dns cache so your computer is forced to request the name server information afresh the next time you make a request to any URL.
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Obligatory – I hate spam post

July 2, 2007

Everyone hates spam.
Here’s my two steps to completely eliminate spam from your life… easy as 1-2-3 (without the 3)

Get a Mac
Get Spam Sieve

I really can’t say enough good things about this product from C-Command, they’ve done a wonderful job, and although I don’t understand the full mathematics behind it, I know it’s simple and elegant. [...]

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