If you are finding mail sometimes not appearing in your Mail inbox after upgrading to Snow Leopard, but then it appears again once you restart Mail, try shutting off the ‘Use IDLE command’ option in a
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At work, we need to start using JOGL as a dependency of our project, which we build with Maven. JOGL, the Java OpenGL interface, uses platform specific binaries, which introduces some complexity to th
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Since the latest Mac operating system Snow Leopard adds Exchange support to iCal, I thought maybe now I could reach the holy-grail: Syncing my work calendar, in Exchange, to Google Calendar. This woul
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I’ve been using Mozy on my Mac for a while, but I’m strongly considering canceling my subscription. It took nearly a month to get the backup complete. Once it was, it ran successfully for about a mont
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Many people don’t realize, but Microsoft Office tracks the history of your documents, and can be configured to store hidden comments and other editing notes. Office documents also track what is called
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Microsoft’s Major Nelson posted an explanation of the problems I (and may other people) have been experiencing with XBox Live and our corrupt Gamertags. I didn’t post about it when it happened, but MS
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If you’ve been following the drama (and who hasn’t?), you’ll know I’ve been waiting with not-so-baited-breath for Microsoft tech support to get back to me about my Xbox Live account migration problem.
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I found another report of Gamertag issues due to trouble with Windows Live IDs, this one in an article titled “I Lost My Gamertag and Microsoft can’t find it“. The story there is a little convoluted a
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I have Logitech Harmony Remote for XBox 360, which I use to control my TV, TiVo, Xbox 360, and a computer I use to run XBMC. The problem is, I’m using a Microsoft Media Center PC remote receiver with
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I found more reports of people having the same trouble I’m having with their expired Live ID’s here, and here. It appears a Microsoft employee named M3 Sweatt commented 13 days ago asking the original
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