You’ve probably reading this page because you too are experiencing issues with your Gmail + IMAP + Snow Leopard/Mail.app setup. At the time of this post there has been no official word from Apple or Google, but I’ll share with you what I’ve been able to determine myself.
Something in has changed in Snow Leopard that causes problems on some Gmail and Google Apps accounts. I’m not completely sure whats going on behind the scenes, but a problem has arisen where Gmail complains the “Account exceeded bandwidth limits.” This means that too much data has travelled between Mail.app on your Mac and Gmail, and Google automatically cuts your account off to maintain service for other users.
If you’ve already been blocked, don’t worry, you can still get your mail online. The block should be removed within a day. I also changed this setting that seems to have prevented me from getting blocked again. In the menubar, click Mail > Preferences > Accounts > select your account > Advanced and change the “Keep copies of messages for offline viewing” to “All messages, but omit attachments”.
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UPDATE: I’m happy to report that the Zoom + Screen Sharing issue has been resolved in Snow Leopard. The remote Mac will now zoom out when using the normal keyboard commands.
Using the built-in zoom and screen sharing capabilities (or any VNC) together on OS X can be a real pain in the posterior. If you leave your screen zoomed it becomes virtually unusable via screen sharing or VNC. That’s because there is no way to effectively move the cursor (and therefore the screen position) or turn off zoom (since you can’t easily access System Preferences, and the keyboard shortcut isn’t applied to the remote machine).
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While people would rarely choose to share their boots, its perfectly acceptable to share ones boot disk. Amongst your computers that is. After a series of unfortunate events surrounding my Mac OS X Leopard disc, I found that there are many ways you can get a fresh copy of OS X running on your Mac.
It started a few months ago when I got my new iMac. Long story short; it was a disaster, I got a new one, its a little off as well.. Anyways, it scratched my Leopard DVD. No problem though, I acquired a new image and tried to burn it to a double-layer DVD. Toast quit halfway through and seems to have toasted the DVD drive. The half-baked disc was stuck in my iMac and the drive isn’t recognized anymore. This pushed me to find a different way to install OS X, and I learned a lot in the process.
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Want to sync to your address book, calendar, and bookmarks? Don’t want to pay $100 a year? Doh. That’s the answer of yesterday, because I’ve got some news for you. Now you can sync your stuff seamlessly and for FREE. That’s right, after waiting on a little or no cost solution for years; someone has finally stepped up to the plate. Fruux is an amazing service available to us Mac OS X users at literally no cost (in dollars, mental anguish or otherwise).
fruux is a lightweight and convenient system preference pane, that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks and Bookmarks between different Macs.
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UPDATE: Elgato’s Canadian EPG is now out of beta, and purchasers will receive one year of free access with purchase of an EyeTV tuner.
A couple months ago I ordered the Elgato EyeTV 250 Plus from the online Apple Store (free shipping FTW). Technically speaking its a TV tuner, but I bought it for its cassette digitizing abilities – more on that later. I thought that was the only use I’d get out of it too, since Elgato doesn’t offer a Electronic Program Guide (EPG/listings) for Canada. Until now. The past few weeks they’ve been rolling out a beta version of the EyeTV 3 software that includes support for a Canadian EPG.
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