I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Article about 318 on Apple.com, focusing on a project we did integrating Kerio to replace Microsoft Exchange, giving our client the ability to centralize all of their server assets into an Open Directory environment while still using MAPI to provide groupware components to their user base, have handheld devices that sync with their Calendar/Mail/Contacts and of course, use the standard Exchange features of mail, etc. Good stuff: http://consultants.apple.com/at_a_glance/318inc/
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Mac OS X: Setting up Outgoing Accounts with Mail.app
Incoming and outgoing mail are handled a bit differently from one another in Mail.app. This is helpful as you can have multiple outgoing accounts even if you only have one incoming accounts, useful if you move between a lot of different networks. To setup a new SMTP account, open the Accounts pane of the Mail.app preferences and choose Edit Server List… from the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): field. At the Server List screen click on the “+” icon and enter a description for the account. This can be anything to help the end user remember what this account is meant for. Then type in the name or IP address of…
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Mac OS X: Unzip Items From the Command Line
Unzip items from the command line. For example, if you wanted to unzip a file called myfile.zip you can use the following command: unzip myfile.zip Or if you wanted to unzip all the zipped files in a directory you could cd to said directory and run this command: unzip *.zip
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Mac OS X: Monitor Bandwidth with SurplusMeter
You can monitor bandwidth utilization with SurplusMeter, a free download from skoobysoft (source code also available). This can be helpful if you are monitoring traffic on a computer behind some form of metered ISP connection. http://freespace.virgin.net/jeremy.dronfield/skoobysoft/utilities/utilities.html
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Hard Drive Space vs. Performance
If you are out of hard drive space then you can’t expect your computer to perform very well… Just an FYI. 😉
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OmniGraffle Stencils Galore
Woohoo, I don’t have to make all my own any more: http://graffletopia.com/
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Firefox: How Many Times I Have I Gone to that Site?
Hit Apple-I on any page and then click on the security tab. Right there in the Privacy and History section there it is. IMHO Not very private.
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Mac OS X: Bootpicker
Bootpicker is software that allows users to choose which OS installation to boot at startup. Although it was developed by Mike Bombich, BootPicker is now available at http://www.apple.com/education/it/bootpicker/ .
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Mac OS X: Loading and Unloading with launchd
In Mac OS X you can use cron to schedule tasks but you can also use launchd. To use launchd to load or unload an agent where you’ve setup a task use the launchctl command. Here we will use launchctl to manually start a process given that we defined a plist called /Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OpenProgram.plist (where program is maybe the name of some program you want to fire up): launchctl load Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OpenProgram.plist Your application should fire up now. Do not quit it for ten seconds. Wait about 15, then quit it. Notice it start up again. This is because it is a launchAgent and will restart any time it is closed. Now…
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