Craig Koster
Apple Mail Forgets Your Password
If you’re an Apple Mail user and you have POP accounts you’ve probably encountered the problem where Mail will suddenly “forget” your saved passwords for your POP accounts and prompt you to enter them again. It’s frustrating and inconvenient especially if you use strongly generated passwords for your accounts.
Today the problem was popping up quite a bit and I got frustrated and searched for a fix. After trying a few different things the following worked for me:
1) Open up Keychain Access (located in your Application > Utilities folder).
2) Find your mail account login items (searching for ‘mail’ may help you find them).
3) Double click each item to bring up the login item properties box.
4) Select the ‘Access Control’ tab.
5) Select the ‘Allow all applications to access this item’ option button.
6) Click the ‘Save Changes’ button. You’ll be prompted to enter your logon password to confirm the change.
After I did the above on each POP account login Mail didn’t give me any more problems. I’m using Mail 4.2 and Snow Leopard.
Hopefully this information will help someone else out.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Tags: Apple
Font Squirrel & Free Font-Face Kits
Found a nice set of free @font-face kits from Font Squirrel today. I have not used the @font-face functionality of CSS 3 before so I gave it a try here to test it out. Works great and it was easy to implement.
Fonts seen in the example are Hill House and Kulminoituva.
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Tags: Design
Classic Dilbert
Hilarious Dilbert today. They’re always pretty funny but this one hits home.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Tags: Design, Development, Software
Photoshop Polaroid Action
Found a great Photoshop action today that turns any image into a Polaroid picture. Here’s a shot of an old town in Alaska.
Just go to this site and download the action file. Install into Photoshop, open your image, and play the action and you’re good to go.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Tags: Photography
iMovie ‘08 Archiving
I’ve accumulated quite a bit of home video on my hard drive and wanted to see how I could archive all my clips onto an external USB drive. After some Googling and experimentation I found the following to work nicely:
1) Right click in the ‘Events’ panel at the lower left of the iMovie screen and make sure ‘View Events By Volume’ is checked. This will list all volumes available for archiving/reading events.
2) Just drag the events you want to archive to your backup volume (USB drive, Time Capsule, etc.) and iMovie will move them for you nicely.
One disadvantage of this is that anytime you want to work with or play projects that depend on the events you moved, you’ll need to make sure your backup volume is accessible. You’ll see a little yellow caution sign on any project that uses event clips that are not available.
I was tempted to move all my files via the Finder but I’d recommend staying away from this method as iMovie is not aware that you’re moving the files.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Tags: Photography, Software