A: With some careful work with a text editor, it is possible to convince Palm Desktop to synchronize with a Sony Clié PEG TH-55. Read on to discover how and why you might want to consider investing in the Missing Sync anyway.
]]> Your PEG TH-55 doesn't work out of the box with the Palm Desktop because the model didn't exist the last time the Palm Desktop software was updated. As Palm has stated its intentions to not continue supporting the Palm Desktop, my recommendation is to switch to using MarkSpace's Missing Sync as it is supported and adds functionality not present in the original Palm Desktop synching mechanism, including synching profiles, Bluetooth and WiFi synching, and multimedia support for photos.If you can't use the Missing Sync and still want to use Palm Desktop with its HotSync Manager, you'll need to get down and dirty with some of the configuration files for the Palm Desktop. Here's what you need to do:
Locate the Palm Desktop folder.
Make a backup of the HotSync Manager file in that folder by using the Finder's Cmd-D to duplicate the file. Store this backup in a safe place.
Right-click on the HotSync Manager file and choose show package contents.
Open the Contents folder and then open the Plug-Ins folder.
Once in the Plug-Ins folder, show package contents of the USBNotifier file, then open Contents.
Open Info.plst in a text editor. You can use TextEdit, BBEdit, or any other text editor that can save plain text files. I don't recommend Microsoft Word. TextEdit came with your Mac and is in your Applications folder.
Go to the bottom of the Info.plist file and look for the last "dict" entry. A "dict" entry looks something like this:
<dict> <key>USBVendor</key> <string>1356</string> <key>USBProduct</key> <string>218</string> </dict>
Copy the last dict entry block and paste it above the "</array>" line close to the bottom of the file.
In your copied block, change the USBVendor ID to 1356. Then, change the USBProduct ID to 324.
Go through the same editing steps with the Transport Manager, including making a backup first! It's also in the same folder as your Palm Desktop HotSync Manager.
Go through the same editing steps with the file USB, which you'll find in /Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Transports.
Restart your Mac and then try to sync. With luck, you should be good to go.
Basically, what all this editing does, is add the unique device information to the HotSync Manager (which does the synching) and the system which monitors the USB ports for known PDAs.
If you ever update Palm Desktop or reinstall it, you'll need to go through the same sequence. It's tedious. I still recommend a href="http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_palmos.php" class="extlink">MarkSpace's Missing Sync. It's a lot easier and you can still use the Palm Desktop's calendaring application on your Mac.
]]>A: Yes. You can use iWeb to publish your content to a folder and then transfer the content to your own web site using regular file transfer mechanisms.
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- Choose File > Publish to a Folder.
- Choose a location to store your site, and then click Choose.
They also warn that doing so means you can't have password protection, the hit counter, or a slideshow with viewing controls. Depending on your web host, however, you may be able to add these things manually yourself.
Once you get the content into a local folder, you can upload it to your web host using the same mechanism you normally would. For most people, this is either via FTP or SFTP, although some people may use WebDAV (like for iDisks, for example).
The following programs allow you to use either FTP/SFTP to upload files to a remote host:
For any SFTP/FTP transfer, you will need know the following things from your web host:
Remember:
The folder you choose to create your iWeb site shouldn't itself be uploaded, just the stuff inside it.
Most web sites use index.html or index.htm as the default starting point for a web site, but not all do. If that doesn't work, try renaming the index.html page to index.htm, default.htm, or default.html, or ask your web host what the default starting page is.
A: You should be able to combine options for both the tar and find utilities into one line to produce the desired archive.
]]> Examples:Regular tar archive
tar -cf /tmp/myArchive.tar `find . -newer /path/to/file/to/compare -type f -print`
Discussion:
If we omitted the "-type f", any directories which contained modified files would also appear in the list, causing tar to add that entire directory. This is not the behaviour we want, so we tell the find utility to restrict its choices to regular files only.
A: You should be able to permanently turn it off by customizing which toolbars are displayed. However, the Acrobat toolbar seems to happily ignore that. Instead, you need to remove some troublesome configuration files.
]]>Locate Microsoft Office folder on your computer. It's probably in the Applications folder. If you don't have the full Office, just find either Excel or Word's folder.
Use the find facility inside that folder to locate PDFMaker.dot and PDFMaker.xla files. These are the troublesome files.
Delete the .dot and .xla files from the previous step.
When Adobe Acrobat asks you to repair PDFMaker, Just say "No" to repairing it.
I think I first saw this on MacFixIt, but it's briefly described in a MacWorld article as well.
Update November 15, 2005: If you're having trouble in Tiger locating the troublesome files, in my copy of Office, they're in Office/Startup/Excel and Office/Startup/Word. "Office" is a folder in the main Microsoft Office folder in your Applications directory, i.e. in the same folder where you see the icons for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, if you have a full Microsoft Office installation. Note that applying Microsoft Office software patches often "fixes" the PDF toolbar and brings it back.]]>
A: This started happening to RaQ4 owners after a Sun update earlier in 2004. I'm not sure which one, but it's easy to fix by changing the permissions on /var/spool/mail back to 0775.
]]> In order to fix this, you'll need to be comfortable with using the command line shell on your RaQ4. Here's a step-by-step set of instructions.SSH to your RaQ4 (or use telnet if you must) and log in as admin.
Type "su - root" and tap the return key at the command line prompt. You'll need to be the machine's root account. Most RaQs will have the admin password as the root account password as well.
Type "cd /var/spool", followed by a return to change to the directory containing the problematic directory.
Once you're in /var/spool, type "chmod 0775 followed by the return key to fix the permissions on this directory.
If you've successfully fixed the problem, typing "ls -l" and return should give you an entry similar to the following (your date will be different): drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 3072 Nov 13 10:16 mail
Type "exit" and return to stop being root. Type "exit" and return again to logout as admin.
You're done. Your problem should now be solved.
]]>A: While this is very frustrating, for most people there's a quick and easy fix, which doesn't even require trashing any preference files. All you need to is is go into the Party Shuffle list, select all of the songs in the list, and delete them. Click "Refresh" and your list should work fine after that.
]]>A: Many portable devices list the MAC addresses for their ethernet and wireless cards on a sticker on the reverse of the device. On a Sony Clié PEG TH-55, you'll need to look a little harder.
]]> A MAC address is a unique address associated with your wireless communication card for your handheld. Any communications card installed in a device which can connect to a wide area network has a unique address. If you have both a wireless connection and an ethernet connection on your computer, the ethernet card would have a MAC address and the wireless card would have a different MAC address. These addresses are assigned when the cards are manufactured. It is possible to get your PEG TH-55 to tell you its own MAC address by stepping through the following:Launch the Palm "Prefs" application.
From the top right drop-down menu, choose "Network". You'll be shown a page which says "Service" and has "Details" and "Connect" buttons at the bottom.
Click on the "Service" drop-down menu and choose "Wireless LAN".
Click on the "Details" button at the bottom of the screen. This takes you to the "Wireless LAN Setup" page.
Click in the upper left corner of the screen, where the title bar is, to bring up the "options" or click on the "options" icon (2nd from the bottom left) on the bottom of the screen. The title bar will be replaced with a menu which says "Information" and has the choice of "ConnectionStatus".
Choose the "ConnectionStatus" menu option. The very first thing listed is your 12-character MAC address.
You now have your MAC address.
Note that if you're registering this with a service, sometimes they don't want any spaces or colons in the address, or may want it in lowercase.
Have fun!
]]>A: Yes, there is. You'll need to do some delving into the innards of two categories of Eudora settings, but your wish can be granted.
]]> Eudora has problems with some HTML mail. I've never bothered figuring out if it's because there's something actually wrong with the HTML or if Eudora just has a poor HTML parser. Anyway...To turn off displaying HTML and images rendered in Eudora, you need to adjust two sets of settings:
Open Eudora's Settings. Scroll through the list of setting icons until you see "Fonts & Display". Uncheck the following: "Automatically download HTML graphics", "Animate animated GIF images", and possibly "Display graphics in messages". Try out the first two and see if that's enough to solve your problem. The last one is for graphics actually attached to the message itself rather than referred to on a remote web site. Most spam e-mail accesses graphics remotely so you can be tracked and doesn't attach graphics to the actual message. If you're still not happy, continue on.
Find the Styled Text settings. Under the section "When receiving styled mail, pay attention to", uncheck everything you'd like to get rid of. This isn't an all or none kind of thing, so feel free to play a bit.
Click "OK" when done to update your settings. I think they take effect immediately.
]]>A: You'll need a document reader for the Palm that can read Palm doc files as well as a converter program for your Macintosh to change RTF or text files into Palm doc files prior to transferring them via a hot sync.
]]> Now that my beloved Handera is 3 years old and still running Palm OS 3.x, I haven't looked at reading software in ages, but here's some general commentary on programs I know about or use regularly.For e-books/text, I primarily still use a version of TealPoint's TealDoc software. TealDoc can read plain text and .doc files, and supports landscape mode and scrollwheels on devices which have those. It also can deal with documents stored on cards rather than in RAM. It does not render HTML; however, version 6 can strip out HTML tags. TealDoc is $19.95 US. I've read hundreds of books on my handheld with my trusty copy of TealDoc. Good investment for me.
If you need a reader which renders HTML, people used to suggest MobiPocket Reader. I haven't used it in ages, so I can't really comment on it. Baen Books' online subscription service recommends using MobiPocket as they distribute their books in HTML (but it's really basically just paragraph tags, which are easy enough to visually ignore for me in TealDoc). This is also $19.95 US.
Palm also offers eReader (used to be Palm Reader) for both your Palm and for your Mac, so you can read Palm .doc files on your Mac. It supports some kind of digital rights management. It is possible to buy DRM books from somewhere for it, but it will also handle just regular text files converted to Palm doc format. While I don't use this on my handheld that often, I do use it on my Mac. It has a nice visual page display. The desktop and Palm versions are available in a free version.
Most of these programs would go quite handily with PorDiBle for your OS X box. PorDiBle converts RTF and text files to Palm doc files (.pdb) which can be read with most document readers for the Palm.
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