Monthly Archives: March 2007

Parallels Desktop For Mac v2.5 - Build 3188

I had installed Parallels on my iMac back in early January but never got much beyond installing a copy of Windows Home Edition. That was build 1970 of Parallels 2.5. They released build 3188 back on March 7th. Since I had little invested in the current installation I figured I might as well upgrade. The [...]

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iPhoto “Empty Trash” Crash Returns - Yet Another Fix

During the drought of blog postings I encountered the return of my problem with iPhoto, where it would crash whenever I emptied the trash, leaving empty icons behind. You can read about that experience here.
I did the usual stuff, index and thumbnail rebuild,etc… without success, I did some web searches and came upon a new [...]

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iClip 4 - A Nice Little Mac App

I had received a license for iClip with the Macheist bundle. It was beta at the time and I never got around to installing it. I was cleaning up old e-mails earlier this week and came across the e-mail from late January announcing the production release of version 4. It was time to download and [...]

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Configuring Thunderbird for AOL My eAddress

Here’s how to configure AOL My eAddress accounts in Thunderbird (at least what works for me). Version 1.5.0.10 is used for the screen shots. The rest of this post contains several screen shots and may take awhile to display, depending upon your connection.

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Configuring Apple’s Mail.app for AOL My eAddress

Here’s how to configure AOL’s My eAddress accounts in Apple’s Mail.app (Well, at least what works for me). The rest of this post contains several screen shots and may take awhile to display, depending on your connection.

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Mozy Mac Backup - Beta Arrives

[Updated 3/17 to reflect that the web download files are encrypted.]
I’d asked to be notified by Mozy when they had a Mac client available, and earlier this week I got an e-mail from them that a beta was available. Although Apple’s Backup.app has done OK for me (all my test restores have worked but I’ve [...]

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