How To Disable Spell Check in MacOSX 10.10 Yosemite

Author: , March 24th, 2015

System Preferences » Keyboard » Text » Uncheck “Correct Spelling Automatically”

How To Cope with the sharingd Crash in MacOSX Yosemite

Author: , March 24th, 2015

I have an older host running MacOSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and I mount disk resources from there onto my new iMac 5K running Yosemite 10.10.2 Every now and then I get an error about sharingd crashing, and my network drives disappear. The quick way to get them back is to simply quit and restart Finder […]

How To Force Key Repeat in MacOSX 10.10 Yosemite

Author: , March 19th, 2015

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

How To Fix Apple iCloud Mail Errors on Snow Leopard

Author: , August 7th, 2014

Some actions taken while the account “iCloud” was offline could not be completed online. Mail has undone actions on some messages so that you can redo the actions when online. Mail has saved other messages in mailbox “Recovered Messages (iCloud)” in “On My Mac” so that you can complete the actions when online. Step 1. […]

How To Turn Off Repeat Alerts for Text Messages in IOS7

Author: , July 30th, 2014

Settings » Notification Center » Messages » Repeat Alerts » Never This will only give you the initial alert for a text.

How To Fix iOS 7.1 Error: Cannot install applications because the certificate is not valid

Author: , March 19th, 2014

After I upgraded to iOS 7.1, Enterprise application deployments no longer worked. I would get the following error: “Cannot install applications because the certificate is not valid”, and the download would fail. As it turns out, Apple changed the rules without notification again, and is now requiring https for part of the process. For those […]

How To Fix Gmail Problems in Mavericks Apple Mail

Author: , February 4th, 2014

Mail in Mavericks requires All Mail to be enabled in Gmail. If you disable All Mail, Mavericks now causes messages to jump back to where they started, or get duplicated, after they’re moved to different mailbox folders. To stop that from happening, you need to re-enable All Mail. Here’s how: Launch your favorite Web browser […]

How To Fix Safari Crashing in MacOSX

Author: , November 18th, 2013

YMMV…

/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/PubSub/Database/Database.sqlite3 vacuum

How To Disable the Built-in iSight Camera

Author: , October 12th, 2013

I am tired of various programs taking control of my webcam, i.e. Skype, GoToMeeting and others… After searching for a while I found the following website with two awesome Applescripts, one for Snow Leopard and one for Lion. Open the script in the Applescript Editor, and do a Save As. Choose Application and save someplace […]

How To Swap iPhone 5/5s Phone Numbers

Author: , October 8th, 2013

We have two lines with AT&T. Our 5s just arrived, but with the wrong phone number, so we wanted to swap the phone number between the phones. We did it by swapping the SIM cards between the phones as per AT&T technical support. PROCEDURE: Turn off both phones. Look along the right side of each […]