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| 01 Jan 2009 10:08:55 pm |
 Use your Mac as a Web Server |
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Using your Mac as a web or web development server is a real asset.
The people over at macminicolo.net have produced a great tutorial and we have to direct you to it here... (scroll down to 'How do I...?) if you wish to setup Mac OS X as a full web server.
The 9 video tutorials simply and easily explain the whole process if you want an alternative to web hosting with out a full copy of Mac OS X Server.
Once you have your web server up and running you could go on to considering multiple User accounts, domain names and more detailed Web Server Management by installing WebMin and UserMin.
We have tired and tested the methods described here and successfully host many web sites, securely, with PHP, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, eMail and FTP/WebDAV for ourselves and our clients.
If you have a non-static IP, services like NO-IP provide and excellent and FREE service to keep your domain names pointing to your web server.
Another alternative, more for local development, is MAMP (Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP), provided for FREE by living-e AG.
This software simply runs as an application on your Mac and provides a complete development environment, working seamlessly with Golive or Dreamweaver. |
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Category : Solutions
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| 01 Jan 2009 08:21:39 pm |
| Migrating FileMaker to MySQL 3.23 (or greater) |
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| The latest version of FileMaker Pro (v9) has good access to MySQL (v5 only it seems) but also requires additional third-party plugins. So the challenge was to find a way to take data from FileMaker and make it available on web pages, as simply as possible, without the need for FileMaker Server more... |
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Category : General
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| 18 Jan 2008 10:21:51 am |
| Illustrator CS2 IntHell Pt.2 |
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Adding to our previous Post:
10/ Delete all your printers, restart your Mac and then Add your printers again.
11/ Remove all your fonts from Extensis Suitcase, restart your Mac and then Add your Fonts into Extensis Suitcase again.
12/ If you have an CD's, USB sticks, USB Scanners or FW devices disconnect or remove them and restart your Mac. |
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Category : Software
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| 01 Feb 2007 04:04:37 pm |
| CAPTCHA - Security for Forms on your website... |
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
This ensures that only a human is submitting the form, because only a human (at this time) can decifer the code or text hidden within this distorted image.
This type of 'challenge-response test' is used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.
Hopefully this means that Spam Robots, Data Mining applications, and automated web applications do not attack or overfill your traffic, mailbox or take up your time repsonding to bogus requests.<
To read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha |
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Category : Development
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| 31 Oct 2006 10:56:48 pm |
| Adobe Illustrator IntHell |
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So, you're finding that Illustrator and OSX 10.4.7 or .8 on an INTEL Mac just don't live well together. Here are a few things to help that difficult situation:
NOTE: Always have a complete backup before you do any of this!
1/ Turn off Appearance in the Window Menu.
2/ Delete your Illustrator Preferences by:
The first step in troubleshooting most any problem is deleting your Illustrator Preferences file.
The Preferences file is created or updated every time you use Illustrator, and it can often become a hidden source of problems. To delete this file and force Illustrator to create a new one, follow these steps:
Make sure you have the serial numbers for any third party plugins for Illustrator - the numbers will need to be re-entered after deleting prefs
Quit Illustrator
Find the Illustrator Preferences file using the following steps:
i) If you are running Mac OS X, you should delete your preferences folder from your particular user account. You can find the Illustrator preferences in this folder, using the "Go to Folder..." command in the Finder: ~/xxxxx/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS2 Settings
ii) Delete the Illustrator Preferences file for the version of Illustrator that is causing problems.
Launch Illustrator, entering any necessary plug-in serial numbers.
iii) Immediately quit Illustrator without opening any documents. Documents can often times be the culprits for corrupting the preferences, especially since Illustrator does not write out new preferences until quit.
iv)Restart Illustrator.
3/ Close the Paths Window, permanently.
You can work around the crashing by not ever opening the appearance palette, or at least by always closing it before you quit, so it won't be open on the next launch.
WINDOW MENU APPEARANCE or Shift F6
4/ Use Font Fingler and clean all your font Caches:
http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/
5/ Close any fonts not required for each job, using your font management application; Extensis Suitcase, FontDoctor, Font Manager or LinoType FontExplorerX:
http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX
http://www.extensis.com/fontdoctor/
http://www.extensis.com/suitcase/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fontbook/
6/ Also ensure you DO NOT have the following ticked in the Illustrator Preferences for:
File handling & Clipboard:
Untick – Enable Version Cue
Untick - Copy as PDF
Quit Illustrator and Restart
7/ Repair permissions on your Mac using the Disk Utility application the Restart you Mac again.
/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
8/ On iMacs, Mac Pro and MacBooks we have found that many of the problems seem to be with Ram access. Though most of this hardware has a maximum memory of 2 Gig, even this amount of Ram makes no difference as the memory does not appear to 'purge' correctly for some Adobe applications. Only a full restart seems to clear the memory buffers. Perhaps this is a Rosetta problem at the moment?
9/ Clean out your System Caches. Here some a good utility apps to do that:
Tiger Cache Cleaner: http://www.northernsoftworks.com/tigercachecleaner.html
Cocktail: http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/
Finally, if you have upgraded to 10.4.8, like we did (and many others), you will get less crashing if you downgrade to 10.4.7 by doing a complete Archive and Install:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
It will not stop the crashing but it will lessen the amount of times Illustrator crashes, if that’s any help. You will of course have to do all the OS X Software Updates to 10.4.7 and update your Applications again if needed. |
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