Wednesday, June 9, 2010 1:40:36 PM
snow leopard, user-tip
The built-in Dictionary application—featuring
New Oxford American Dictionary 2nd edn.—in Mac OS is great. Using it to look-up words from inside Opera is also great.
- Open System Preferences: Keyboard: Services
- Select Dictionary Look-up and assign Control–Command–D
To use it you have to select some word in Opera, and then press the keyboard shortcut you assigned. The Dictionary application should now open and look-up the selected word.
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Sunday, May 2, 2010 12:30:29 AM
the-web, hardware, snow leopard
I finally ordered that
Mac Mini Server Edn. (on
Amazon) I
considered six months ago. So I ended up going for a pretty little machine even though it is totally over-powered for my server/services need.
The major selling point that convinced me to get it was the server administrative tools. There just is not anything similar or anything like a ubuntu-server-gnome-admin for Linux. I don’t want to spend time setting up the basics (email server, chat, file sharing, …) and I want the rest to be easy and unnumbered too. Linux: you aren’t easy enough to use yet.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:31:00 PM
snow leopard, time machine, user-tip
Have you ever done something to your user data in Opera (bookmarks, speed dial, emails, news feeds, …) or set a preferences you can’t figure out how to revert? It happens to all of us all the time, actually. Here is a little trick I use on my Mac whenever I mess up my Opera installation.
Mac users ought to be familiar with Time Machine, the feature that keeps a backup of everything on your Mac. Including your user data in Opera! From what I have seen on the Opera for Mac forums, I suspect that hardly anyone thinks about restoring their data from their Time Machine backups when disaster (or them self) strikes.
Here is a step by step guide to Retrieving Opera user data from Time Machine backup.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 8:12:03 PM
hardware, snow leopard
Having problems with your screen going black with only the mouse courser being visible? Here is a quick-tip on how-to recover from this problem.
- Press Control–Shift–Eject
- Wait for the screen to shut off, and then press Enter
This will restart the display and you wouldn’t have to restart the whole machine. I sometimes get crash logs when this happens, and they are all pointing to QuickLook helpers or graphic card drivers.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:35:43 AM
hardware, snow leopard
OK, so I have given up on the
Bubba experiment. Sold it, and I am now aiming for a Mac Mini as server. (Since Apple just release the product that I actually wanted all along:
Mac Mini Server edt.)
So much for open source and cheap solutions …
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Friday, September 11, 2009 9:47:24 AM
desktopteam, peregrine, IPv6, snow leopard
Users who are on ISPs who have switched on AAAA records on their DNS servers have had problems with pages never loading in Opera 10. The problem is caused by networking changes in
Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ and Opera 10. This even affected popular pages like
google.com.
Long story short: Opera relies on the system to determine IPv6 link capabilities. Due to changes in Snow Leopard, this made Opera 10 attempt to make an IPv6 connection over IPv4 for IPv6/4 hybrid Web sites.
The latest
snapshot release introduces a work around that will resolve this problem. The fix may introduce some problems on IPv6 only networks, but it is unlikely to affect any users.
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