One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 29 June 2004

.< 4:38:15 PM >
Backing up Mail.app in OS X

Tonight, I was messing around with our Cyrus IMAP server here at InfoWorld and needed to run a test using my mail account. I didn't want to blow away my mail in the process, so I decided to backup my local cached copies of my IMAP mail contained in Mail.app. I thought I had figured out what directories to back up, but I don't play around with mail backups, so I checked around the web for confirmation. This page at the University of Hawaii confirmed what I thought and gave me the courage to backup my mail with confidence. [Chad Dickerson]

< 4:36:46 PM >

Even if I'm a long time orange icon user and fan, I think I can imagine Apple thinking: "why using an icon with the word 'XML' to link to something we call 'RSS'?". [snip] Also, from the demo's I've seen, Safari should solve another issue: users clicking on an RSS icon will not end up watching a page of code anymore but should see a nicely displayed set of posts. Cool.
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

I'm glad someone else picked up on the XML = RSS point. Apple is cleaning up some of the mess of this cool new technology.

< 3:44:53 PM >

The President's handlers foolishly granted a Presidential interview (requires RealPlayer) to a non-White House Press Corps journalist, Carole Coleman, the Washington correspondent for RTE, the Irish public television network. When she asked him pointed, pertinent questions, he became upset when his stock answers failed to satisfy her. [Boing Boing]

File this under 'he really is a moron'. I've snipped the Boing Boing posting. You do want to read it!

< 3:37:19 PM >

Sometimes the best tips are found accidentally, and you wonder why you never thought of them before. This is one of those. When you're in iDVD's Media pane and viewing movies, you see icon previews of the files in your... [iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide]

< 3:36:49 PM >

Documents are great for legal contracts, email is great for communicating with a few people, but blogs should replace the corporate data dumpsters. Then you could just search the "internal web" to find what you need.