So you open your mail and your client has sent you a screenshot or image to look at and you naturally think he or she is doing something wrong. What you’re looking at is a blank image with the words “Missing Plugin” on it. The first thing I assumed was that there was a Flash update and maybe one of the browsers didn’t update correctly. I was wrong and it was me, or at least my Apple Mail program.
It turns out that during the last round of updates or possibly a software update over the weekend (I reboot my Mac so seldom it’s difficult to pinpoint which update caused it) the Java settings have been reset or updated on your computer. Here’s how you fix it (courtesy of the smart people over at Mac OS X Hints):
- Go to Applications > Utilities
- Click on Java Preferences.app
- Under General (the already selected tab), click “Restore Defaults” in the top half of the app window.
- Close Java Preferences
- Restart Mail
- Go back to living a happy, peaceful existence
- ? Apple’s System Apps (daringfireball.net)
Let’s say you just sent out a huge mailing to all of your friends, favorite clients, and prized customers. It’s 4:57 pm and you have dinner reservations at 5:30 and if you’re late again, your spouse is really gonna let you have it. Again. You can’t just walk away and hope people are clicking on your newsletter and signing up for your latest promotion and… the list goes on and on.
We might have a solution for you, but only if you can be subtle about checking your phone. That’s right. GroovyMail is now on your smart phone. That means iPhone and Android users can now view their campaign stats in full HTML graphic goodness glory while they’re on the go – without their laptop and the glares that would induce at the dinner table ;)
So here’s the deal: go here like you always do: http://www.groovysoup.com/groovymail and log in using your normal info. GroovyMail will know if you’re using your
phone and will automagically show you the stats for your latest campaign right on your phone – and not teeny tiny but normal size so you can read it and see what’s going on without your spouse seeing your phone – well, not if you’re cool about it anyway.
You know what else is cool about it? If you’re on iPhone you can just add it as a bookmark to your Home Screen and it will create a snazzy little icon that saves you from logging in next time. Cool, huh? Give it a try and let us know what you think, and if you’re not already using GroovyMail for your HTML email campaigns, drop us a note and we’ll get an account set up for you right away. Your spouse will thank you for it :)
I’ve been working on Mac OS X for quite a few years now and the one thing that always bugged me was the way all the little icons would run together . Sure I could group them together by task or role but it still took a split second longer than it should have to find what I needed. Also, all crammed together like that, you’re kind of limited to how many apps you have down there. So I Googled for a solution and this is what I found:
You can insert blank separators by just entering a little line of code into your Terminal. Here’s the code (repeat for as many separators as you need, you can always delete them later by dragging them out of your dock like a normal icon):
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'
and then just enter this code to refresh the dock and see the changes:
killall Dock
Now you can just drag your blank separators wherever you need them to break your list of applications up like in the screenshot above. Bonus: this little trick is designed into the OS and isn’t pulling in any plugins or outside programs.
Source: MacNN Forums
Here’s an in-depth and thoughtful review of the new (a few weeks old anyway) beta of Apple’s Safari web browser: Usability Post. I especially like the way Dmitry has broken down the tab resizing issues clearly.
I had some usability issues with Safari 4 as well but really only on my desktop computer. I use a stylus or tablet there so when I click on the tabs, if I’m not very accurate and only using a straight up and down motion, the entire browser window moves rather than selecting the next tab. I switched to the old way of displaying tabs after only a day.
If you haven’t tried the new beta, give it shot here: Safari
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