News and Updates

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A solution for company e-mail signatures

E-mail disclaimers and legal signatures disturb me. I feel strongly that any legal jargon appended to an e-mail should have little to no legal weight. The information contained in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you may not read, use, copy or disclose this email. If you are not the intended recipient, please let us know by reply email immediately and then delete this email from your system. We shall not be responsible for any changes to, or interception of, this email or any attachment after it leaves our information systems. We accept no responsibility for viruses or defects in this email or any attachments. …

Published 13 June 2007

Fixes included in Power Manager 3.6.2

We recently launched Power Manager 3.6.2. This bug fix update improves the uninstaller/removal script. This build also includes a couple of tweaks to better support the pre-release Mac OS X 10.5 seeds. …

Published 13 June 2007

Fix for Power Manager 3 removal problems

Thank you to Michael Henley and Jamie Shaw for getting in touch about problems when removing/uninstalling Power Manager. If you are experiencing problems after removing Power Manager, download and run this updated removal script. …

Published 20 May 2007

Textual login bug on Mac OS X 10.3.9

Two users have reported a problem after removing Power Manager from a Mac OS X 10.3 machine. Thankfully the solution is easy and requires editing only a single file. After running the removal script and restarting, the login window does not appear. Instead a black screen with white text appears. …

Published 20 May 2007

A VNC server is included in Mac OS X 10.4+

There are a number of VNC servers available for the Mac. These are no longer needed with Mac OS X 10.4 and later. The VNC server built into your Mac is free, easy to switch on, and supported by Apple.

Apple includes a VNC server in every edition of Mac OS X 10.4 and later. You can start the server through a discrete check box in the Sharing preferences. This article refers to Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger. More recent versions are available on our VNC on Mac OS X page. …

Published 14 May 2007

MacUser Awards Power Manager Full Marks

Thanks to Giles Turnbull, MacUser UK, for his review of Power Manager 3. Giles awarded Power Manager full marks.

Published 5 May 2007

Removing Excessive Quotes

Last week I turned my attention to the excess quoting in the archive. Quotes are useful when the referenced text is immediately unavailable but in our archive the original is immediately above the response and has just been skimmed over by the reader.

I have learnt a little too much about quoting recently. Specifically the excessive quoting that appears in e-mails and responses to usenet posts. …

Published 5 May 2007

Published 1 April 2007