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Comment on The sound of settling? by Benjy

Benjy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:34:06 +0000

I laughed.

Comment on The sound of settling? by Jim

Jim — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:06:02 +0000

Good to hear from you. Is your next post going to be called “No Sunlight”?

Comment on OS X drag and drop problems explained. by Indridi

Indridi — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:41:12 +0000

Liunk isn’t working.
I am acctually having the drag and drop problem since i installed Leopard!
Anyone know why this is?
No settings had been modified!!

All the best!

Comment on Nokia Mobile Codes by Alicia

Alicia — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:02:25 +0000

You just need to go to Japan! http://www.slashfood.com/2006/09/18/nutritional-info-from-barcode-to-cellphone-in-japan/

Comment on Today’s Leopard issue: exploding IMAP journaling? by Mario Thomas

Mario Thomas — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:56:31 +0000

Hello,

I had exactly the same error message show up along with the following error code: MFMessageErrorDomain error 1028

Now, the steps I performed to cause this seems to have been:

1. Install brand new CLEAN Leopard install.
2. Update with all available updates
3. Use Mail

At this point everything worked perfectly.

4. Add a USB HDD.
5. Setup Time Machine
6. Open Mail
7. Send large email ~ 20Mb
8. Problem begins

Frustrated for about 3 hours. Then decide to take drastic action:

1. Close Mail
2. Turn OFF Time Machine
3. Delete my user Mail folder
4. Start Mail
5. Problem gone away

Not sure how long it will hold but I think this is Time Machine related. Don’t know why though!

Hope this helps someone.

Thanks

Mario

Comment on The website is not designed for interactive use. by tina

tina — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:04:04 +0000

hahaha! that same thing happened to me about a month ago when i tried to sign up for cable after that whole HOA/satellite fiasco! they told me to try back in a week or two to see if it had been updated.. talk about ridiculous!

Comment on Today’s Leopard issue: exploding IMAP journaling? by Steve White

Steve White — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:52:47 +0000

Benjy,

I had the same problem for the first time this morning. Installed Leopard last week without problems, but this morning for some reason Mail would hang on startup. I have several accounts, including one to an Exchange server, but didn’t know which was the problem.

So I went into ~/Library/Mail, and while I didn’t find Envelope Index-journal, I did find Envelope Index. I removed it and restarted Mail. Mail came up and asked if I wanted to re-index all my mail. I said cancel and it quit.

I put Envelope Index back, restarted Mail, and it hung.

So I removed it again, started Mail, let it re-index all my mail, and now it works just fine.

No clue what that file does but it seems as if it was corrupted. Interestingly, going back in Time Machine, I can’t find the file until this morning. It’s just not there. So I have no idea what happened, but Mail works. For now. Fingers-crossed.

Cross-posted to the Apple Support forum.

Comment on The obligatory iPhone post. by Benjy

Benjy — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:13:34 +0000

I’m pretty sure it supports bluetooth headsets but not bluetooth stereo; I think that’s the only bluetooth support it has at the moment: it just doesn’t support the bluetooth GPS profile at all.

Comment on The obligatory iPhone post. by Rohit

Rohit — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:24:18 +0000

Not to mention, Apple hardware is notorious for bugs in its first version, after being rushed to market. Also, does the iPhone not do Bluetooth at all, or is it just your specific GPS model? For me, the wireless headset (while driving, not posing while walking) is critical for long (and irrelevant) conference calls.

Comment on A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting by Rohit

Rohit — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:51:06 +0000

Neato! Long live Perl!

Comment on “iTunes for files.” by Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:34:29 +0000

Hey there. I realize this is an incredibly old post, but it is, very literally, the only place on the internet that I can find anybody talking about this idea. Interestingly reading John Siracusa’s article again, 2 of his 3 suggestions have become reality in the form of spotlight search and smart folders. But the file browsing interface still doesn’t exist! I’ve been desperately trying to find a third party application that does this — offer an iTunes browser interface using arbitrary user-defined metadata — to no avail. I don’t suppose you know of anything, or have worked on anything yourself…

Regards,
Matt Hine

Comment on Text message spam. by ByeByeNextel

ByeByeNextel — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:30:12 +0000

Yes, the same has been happening to me about 3-10 times a day at random hours for about 4 months now. It’s really helped me hate the phone. I’m also on-call at times so I leave the phone on, it vibrates every few hours, I check it, another 3-4 line garbled spam…I say a few ceremonial curses and go back to what I was doing before the interruption.

No other carriers seem to be having this problem based on a few folks I’ve asked recently. We’re going to switch about 70 phones over to another carrier soon, but not based on this issue. Nextel really needs to add some antispam filters to their number@page.nextel.com service, and be more proactive at keeping their existing customers happy. ;-)