I have a ton of mailboxes in my various Eudora setups. Every month or so I compact all the mailboxes. I do this by option-clicking on the mailbox info box in the lower left corner of a mailbox. What I remember happening is each box getting instantly compacted. Now it seems that they will be […]
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FavIconic
While trying to find a way to manage Safari’s icon cache, I found a cool program called FavIconic. It uses AppleScript to retrieve a site’s web icon and assign it to a .webloc file stored on your Mac. Very slick. FavIconic. It would be nice if FavIconic put in some kind of “no icon available” […]
Link Colors
Jakob Nielson just commented that visited and un-visited links should be different colors. OK, fine, that should be a given. What about links that are a different color to an off-site page?
ShareClip
I just found a really cool free program called ShareClip. It shares text from your clipboard with one other computer, in very near real time. It works on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. I will find this very handy as I continue moving from Windows to the Mac at home. ShareClip.
Distributed Computing
Distributed Computing is merely splitting a complex process (an algorithm) into parts that can be shared by several different computers. An Easy Example A (not too realistic) example would be if you were asked to add up all the integers from one (1) to a thousand (1,000). You could get out a calculator or a […]
Pretty Good Privacy Reference
PGP, which stands for Pretty Good Privacy, is a program that uses two different keys to encrypt (put into code) and decrypt (make readable) a message. The two different keys are mathematically linked together; but since there are literally trillions of different possibilities, no one else can read your message. The two keys are named […]