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Some Time Machine users are noticing that their backups are not including new files. While the backups run every hour, and no apparent problems seem to occur during the backup process, when users check the backups for recent created files, the items are not there.
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Some applications install their own Preference Panes in System Preferences, which means that over time you can end up with a cluttered mess full of extra Preference Panes you no longer need. You can go digging through your Library folders to find and remove the ones you don’t want any more, or you can…
(Via Macworld.)
If you’re still spooked by the idea of viewing headers along with a preview of a message—even without HTML turned on—you can follow this little tip from Macworld’s Gemmeister, Dan Frakes: Give Limit Point Software’s MailCM a try. This is a contextual menu plugin/pref pane that, among other things, lets you copy a message’s headers without opening or previewing the message. Of course you’ll have to then paste that header into a text document or empty email message in order to examine its contents, which seems like an incredible pain in the neck to me. But then, I’m not easily spooked.
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(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
An avid reader of TUAW, Chris Thomson, sent us a link to a Flickr picture (being the nosy people we are, we clicked the link). What we found surprised us — a Twitter Quartz Composer composition was included as a part of the Mac OS X developer tools for Leopard. “Twitterverse,” when tweaked right, can be used as an OS X screen saver and display all of your friends tweets in a graphical way.
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(Via Ars Technica.)
Another test build of 10.5.3, 9D27, was released last night to ADC members. This comes just one week after build 9D25, two weeks after build 9D23, and three weeks after build 9D20. The release notes included in the latest build indicate that the 10.5.3 update will include well over 200 fixes and improvements in total when it becomes available. The latest build adds nine additional fixes to the tally, the majority of which are network related.
The first testing build was released to developers in late March and has seen frequent updates since then. This breaks from Apple’s previous record of seeding a build to ADC members early on and then slowly increasing the frequency of test builds as the update nears completion. A weekly cadence like we’ve seen so far usually indicates imminent release. However, while the release notes indicate no known issues, Mac Rumors reports anecdotal evidence of stability issues.
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
When Apple introduced System 7—way back in 1991—one of its most-notable features was quick and simple folder sharing with anyone on your network. Just click a folder, enable sharing, define which users would have access to the folder, and you were done. OS X, of course, has had various forms of folder sharing since its inception. None, however, were (at least in my opinion) as easy to use or understand as was file sharing in System 7.
Now, a mere 16 years later, OS X 10.5 finally brings back fast and easy file sharing. Prior to the release of OS X 10.5, setting up file sharing was doable, but far from simple. In Leopard, though, it’s almost as simple as it was in the System 7 days—you don’t even need to visit the Accounts System Preferences panel, for instance.
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(Via MacRumors.)
Apple waited a full week before seeding the latest version of Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9d19) to developers on Friday. The latest version of Mac OS X Leopard adds 31 bug fixes to the growing list of issues addressed in the upcoming release. Features that ar…
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