I recently started using Apple’s iCloud service to sync the address book, contacts and calendar between my desktop and phone. It’s a fantastic service that allows you to add or edit a contact in one place and have that contact appear on all of your other devices instantly without plugging in your phone to sync. [...]
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Your connection had to be retried using SSL 3.0 – Apache 2 SSL Certificate Configuration
When viewing your SSL certification details in Chrome you may notice an annoying yellow warning icon with the error message “Your connection had to be retried using SSL 3.0 This typically means the server is using very old software and may have other security issues” This warning technically doesn’t affect or hurt anything but of [...]
Auto Accept.applescript for OSX Messages
iChat will be replaced in the next version of OSX “Mountain Lion” with an app called simply “Messages.” This new app is an improvement to iChat and includes some nice features like multiple chats in a single window and the ability to send messages to iPhones via iMessage. You can download the BETA version now [...]
Kill imagent
For some reason after upgrading to Lion I have to kill the process for imagent regularly in order to use iChat. Otherwise iChat stays stuck saying “unavailable.” I don’t know exactly why this is happening to some people and not others but I’m one of the unlucky people who has been experiencing it ever since [...]
Install Image Magick for PHP on OSX
These instructions will install the ImageMagick binaries as well as the PHP extension for the default OSX Apache/PHP setup. If you prefer not to use MacPorts there are binaries available, however you may have to deal with some dependencies and configuration on your own. 1. Install ImageMagick sudo port install ImageMagick 2. Install imagic module [...]
