Add book cover images to your iBooks in iTunes

Very soon, all of us — not just iPad users — will be able to download iBooks from the iTunes Store and view them on our Apple mobile device of choice. iPad users, obviously, already have this feature. iPhone and iPod touch users will see this addition when iPhone OS 4.0 comes out sometime this summer. For now, this article applies to the iPad users, but the rest of us will be joining them shortly. [...]

2017-08-28T22:58:16-04:00May 16th, 2010|Mac|

Mac OS X Server – Troubleshooting Server Admin/Workgroup Manager

Unable to Add Users or interact with the interface Issue shows itself as this: Error of type eDSRecordNotFound (-14136) on line 1268 of /SourceCache/WorkgroupManager/WorkgroupManager-361.1.1/PMMUGMainView.mm Correct with this: In Server Admin > Settings > LDAP toggle the "Enable SSL" & Save. This makes the LDAP restart and resolves the issue. Toggle SSL back to the previous setting/certificate if there is one (if desired) & Save. Wikis not showing for group members This usually indicates itself by [...]

2019-10-25T20:51:13-04:00April 28th, 2010|Quick Tips|

Magento Commerce Tips & Tricks

Add a CMS Static Block to a Layout I was trying to copy the way they did it with cms_footer_links in footer.phtml and it wasn't working. Below is the proper method. No: <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('footer_bottom_text') ?> Yes: <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('footer_bottom_text')->toHtml() ?> MySQL Import Errors Open the .sql Export -- add this above the first line: SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0; -- add this below the last line: SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;

2019-10-25T20:52:13-04:00April 6th, 2010|Quick Tips|

Printing shipping labels from USPS.com on Mac

USPS.com has a feature that allows one to print shipping labels but the printing process is (by default) fairly Windows-centric: the file passed to the computer when you click "Print Postage" ends in an oddball filetype OS X doesn't know anything about (the file extension is "LabelGenerationServlet.") Safari doesn't do squat when you click the link and Firefox doesn't appear to (really it downloads the file but since OS X is stymied by the file [...]

2019-10-25T20:53:15-04:00April 1st, 2010|Quick Tips|

Force https or SSL with .htaccess

Using Coda Smultron or an application that allows you to view save and edit invisible files. Create a file called .htaccess at the root level of the website. With the following content: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://[domain-name]/$1 [R L] *Double-check that Allow Overrides is selected for the site in Server Admin to allow .htaccess files to work.

2019-10-25T20:54:22-04:00March 29th, 2010|Quick Tips|

Mozy Tips & Tricks for Mac

Backup hidden/invisible files and folders Type the following in Terminal to show the hidden folders in the Mozy or MozyPro application for selection: defaults write com.mozy.Config "BDSShowHiddenFilesKey" -bool YES or defaults write com.mozypro.Config "BDSShowHiddenFilesKey" -bool YES

2019-10-25T20:55:07-04:00March 9th, 2010|Quick Tips|

VPN on Mac Server 10.6: Disable MobileMe Back-to-my-Mac to permit VPN access to server network

Recently I was playing with SL Server and wanted to enable VPN just to gain the experience. I was using a Mac at my house as the server and although I'd configured the SL Server firewall to open the correct ports for VPN and I had forwarded the correct ports from my server to the router I still couldn't authenticate or connect to the server from a remote location. After some hair-pulling and some frustrated [...]

2019-10-25T20:56:32-04:00March 3rd, 2010|Quick Tips|

Mail Service in Mac Server 10.6 rejects emails with blank subject lines

One of our techs ran across this problem and someone posted a fix in Apple's Support Forums. Here's the Support Forum page In case the link changes/goes down here's the salient portion of the suggested fix: Turns out that SL rejects empty subject lines by default. In order to make it play nice I stopped the mail service headed over to:/etc/postfix/custom_header_checksand turned: /^subject: *$/ REJECT empty subject header in /etc/into:#/^subject: *$/ REJECT empty subject header [...]

2019-10-25T20:57:30-04:00March 3rd, 2010|Quick Tips|

HTTP Proxy on Mac

Download/install the latest version of Firefox for Mac. Open Terminal and paste in this command and hit Return: ssh macworks@[server.domain.com] -D 2001 When Terminal asks for a password enter: [server-password] (Terminal doesn't show characters as you type. just type the password and hit Return) Terminal should show a new line beginning with: [server]:/ [user]$. if you see this you can close Terminal. Launch Firefox and open Firefox Preferences Navigate Firefox preferences to Advanced > Network [...]

2019-10-25T21:01:53-04:00March 2nd, 2010|Quick Tips|

Daylite and Blackberry Sync

To troubleshoot any sort of sync failure between Daylite and Blackberry... Backup Daylite db iCal and Address Book Check for any other programs that may be talking to the local SyncServices database like MobileMe. Consider these programs before taking any actions. Quit Daylite iCal/Address Book and Blackberry Desktop Manager Launch iSync go to iSync Preferences click Reset Sync History. wait for button to go grey and then come back to black. close iSync. Launch Daylite [...]

2019-10-25T21:04:05-04:00February 23rd, 2010|Quick Tips|