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Setting Up Email Securely on cPanel servers: example WiredTree
How to set up SSL connections for your email on cPanel and why it’s important.
How to move clients email accounts (or your own) from one server to another with no lost mail
Moving servers is a hassle. Clients losing emails is even worse. Here’s how to move servers and not lose any mail.
Apple Mail, IMAP, IDLE and Smart Mailboxes don’t mix well, spike CPU
Are there no heavy Mail users at Apple, who use Smart Filters in their work and use IMAP too? What we need is a way to turn Smart Mailboxes on and off.
Apple Mail: Migrating from POP to IMAP Smoothly for Power Users
How a power user can move from POP to IMAP and continue to enjoy automated filtering in Apple Mail.
How to create a network backup with Apple’s TimeMachine
Apple has removed the preference allowing people to use TimeMachine over a network. With a few command line tricks, you can keep using TimeMachine via your network.
Keep your Apple OS X Computer Running Fast with MenuMeters
MenuMeters lets you know right away when something has gone out of control on your Mac and gives you the tools to get more info and fix it right away.
Apple iTunes Library: Move iTunes Successfully via the Finder
Moving the Apple iTunes Library via the Finder is unnecessarily difficult. But with a simple text editor, you can take your library anywhere. Here’s how.
FreeDB or Musicbrainz: Why is there no software to upload album info in OS X?
Gracenote stole the CDDB from its contributors. FreeDB and Musicbrainz appeared. But why is it almost impossible to use them on OS X?
Apple Mail: How to avoid being tracked yet still see images
If you are using email these days and you don’t want your every move tracked, you have to prevent your email client from loading external images.
Backup Router-Firewall for a Small Office: D-Link DIR-100 vs ZyXEL Prestige 334
For a small business backup router/firewall, there’s no need to break the bank as it shouldn’t be in service much. Here’s how D-Link and ZyXEL stack up.
Shareware awards just a scam? MacUpdate, Versiontracker and IUseThis.com vs the Windows world
A fake app was approved and listed on 218 Windows shareware software directories. Even more shocking, it won 16 awards.
Keyloggers for OS X – Why you should install one and which one to choose: Spellcatcher, BackTrack, logKext
If you work a lot on the web, you are bound to lose work now and again. Not having a good key logger is costing you at least $500 year.
Little Snitch shortcoming: Badly needs wildcards
When will Objective Development add wildcards to Little Snitch? In the meantime, here’s a way to use Little Snitch with hosts for free.
Ghost Apple Mail Messages: “Show in Mailbox”
Here’s how to stop the haunting.
Apple Dual DVI Mini DisplayPort Adapter MB571Z Problems Solved
How to make your Dual DVI Mini DisplayPort adapter almost work. It’s not easy, but here are the ways.
How Apple Won Our Mini Enterprise Contract
We’ve just bought a total of six Mac Minis and Macbooks to switch Foliovision over to being primarily an Apple company. Here’s why.
Windows 7 Licensing or How Microsoft Lost Our Business
We spent ten man hours just clarifying what Windows 7 licenses were available and which would work for us. A good reason to divorce Microsoft.
Code is poetry: Researching HTML Code and Pre Tags at the W3
When to use the code tag and when to use the pre tag. Recommendations for writing about code with a WYSIWYG editor from the authors of Foliopress WYSIWYG.
How to Choose a Hosting Company
For business hosting the following five issues are the big issues: speed, reliability, tech support, competency, clean IP’s for search engines.