An Undocumented Feature Of Apple Mail

An Apple Mail undocumented feature that I can do without: Randomly shooting up to 100% CPU at least 3-4 times a day. After much googling (and following many dead ends) I’ve decided to blame Apple Mail’s data detectors. Type the following on the command line:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableDataDetectors YES

Restart Mail, and no more 100% CPU.

May 11, 2009 | Filed Under OS X | Leave a Comment 

What I Get For Accomidating Firefox On OS X Keyboard Users

I found this blog post about how to get Firefox in OS X to recognize tabindex:

I just spent the better part of an hour trying to get tabindex to work
under Firefox/Mac OS X.

The solution lies not in Firefox, but in the Mac OS X preferences.

Apple Menu > System Preferences > Keyboard and Mouse >
Keyboard Shortcuts

and under “Full Keyboard Access” choose “All controls”.

Sweet lord….

Now in the first line if you replace ‘an hour’ with ‘the afternoon’ then you’ll get an accurate picture on how I spent my afternoon today.

Sweet lord indeed…

September 29, 2008 | Filed Under Browsers, OS X | Leave a Comment