Fortunately Address Book lets you set a default email address to use for each contact in the group. What’s more, this is on a per-group basis, so you can use a contact’s work email for one group and their home email for another group, for example.To do all this, choose Edit > Edit Distribution List. Click a group in the left column, then go through each email address, clicking the address you want to use for each contact the selected address is in bold:

via Mac Address Book tips: 5 more handy hints — Reality Distortion: Macs, Mac OS X, and Apple stuff.

Click on the + (plus) sign to add a new account, with these settings:

Account Type is Jabber Account

Account name is your_user@chat.facebook.com, and enter your password

Click the drop-down arrow to reveal Server options. Enter chat.facebook.com as the server name.

Enter 5222 as the port and click Done.

Click Done again, and you are good to go.

via How to use Facebook Chat with iChat – Mac OS X Hints.

In iTunes, a very useful feature is the File » Show Duplicates menu item. As expected by its name, you can use this feature to help weed out duplicates from your iTunes library. However, many people (myself included) have different versions of songs, remixes and such, which will show up as duplicates when using this feature.

The solution is to hold down the option key prior to selecting this menu item. When you do, Show Duplicates changes to Show Exact Duplicates. In this mode, iTunes shows only true duplicates, and not remixes or alternate versions.

via Show only exact duplicate tracks in iTunes – Mac OS X Hints:

Oh this is so nice. I can get rid of a few (bunch) tunes that are replicants in so many ways.

This article focuses on defending the administration area of WordPress, meaning all those pages in the wp-admin folder or http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/ that are displayed after a user a verified. We highlighted the phrase “after a user is verified” deliberately: it should be explicitly understood that only a simple query stands in the way of an evil hacker and the powerful admin area of your whole blog. The latter is only as strong as the passwords that are generated.

via 10 Steps To Protect The Admin Area In WordPress | Developers Toolbox | Smashing Magazine.

I have gone throught many post regarding wordpress problem with buggy libxml2 version, The many woraround was downgrade libxml2 version to 2.6.32 or older.  The current version of libxml2 2.7.2 also have bug ’stripping leading angle brackets and & sign’.

via WordPress patch for problamatic libxml2 version « HooFoo Blog.

I often convert big .doc files to PDF when I only need to read them, since they load much faster as PDFs. I was always annoyed that Word wouldn't transfer the document structure, with the headers etc., to the PDF's 'bookmarks' section. After a while, I came up with the solution…

Open the .doc or .docx file (I only tried .doc) with OpenOffice 3 and choose File » Export as PDF. This works like a charm, and I like the irony of OpenOffice being better than Microsoft at converting their very own closed format.

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macosxhints.com – Convert .doc files to PDF and retain ‘structure’ info
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In the old days of iTunes 6 and earlier, the iTunes Source pane would contain a Library playlist that listed all the audio and video in your iTunes library. iTunes 7 removed this, and segmented the library into various 'master' libraries — Music, Movies, TV Shows, and so on. If you want to bring that overall Library playlist back, you can set two hidden preference keys in the Terminal:

$ defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-library-playlist -bool TRUE

$ defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-library-playlist -bool FALSE

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macosxhints.com – Make iTunes create a Library entry containing everything
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Ahhh – now I can see it all.

Regrettably, Address Book doesn’t include a bulk-edit feature, but there’s a way to use Apple’s TextEdit to solve this one. Try this:

Start by launching Address Book and choosing File -> Export -> Address Book Archive. This will create a backup of all your contacts. Should something go wrong, you can always return to this backup.

via Bulk edit Address Book data | Mac 911 | Macworld.

How to stream your iTunes library across the web for free – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).

Date-shifting in iPhoto 08

I get a lot of requests to add date-shifting support for iPhoto 08 to my iPhoto AppleScripts. But in most cases, the scripts would be completely unnecessary, iPhoto finally built this feature into the application. Here’s how to use it.

Date-shifting in iPhoto ‘08.

This is a nice and handy thing. I can finally get all of my “web-saved” images into a sensible spot.

defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5 ShowResizableTextAreas -bool true

interesting. i would rather use the “zoomed” text window myself.

Automator is a powerful technology for building custom workflows. But sometimes you need functionality that the existing actions don’t provide—functionality that could be easily accomplished using the shell with a scripting language like Perl, Python, or Ruby. With Custom Shell Script actions, script developers can quickly turn their work into Automator actions.

The Terminal application in Panther supports the x-man-page URL type. That is, the following URL, when used with Safari or the open command, will open a Terminal window with the ls man page displayed:
x-man-page://ls

x-man-page
ssh
telnet

What a difference a little conf file makes!So, we here at AFP548.com are by no means DBAs in any way shape or form. We cross our fingers every time we upgrade the server that MySQL works when it comes up. We’re not sure what we’d do if it didn’t.

I tried it. First impression is that dynamic pages on the blogs *are* faster.

In this article we’ll take a look at the AutoCRUD for PHP library, which is a database abstraction library specifically for MySQL. I’ll take you through all major features of this library, and demonstrate everything with examples.

For example, if I want to add a picture to a TextEdit RTFD document, I had to launch iPhoto, chose the picture, and drag it to the document. Waiting for iPhoto to launch can be long if you have a lot of photos.

But there is a way to get around this, using an Automator action.

First, download the plugin. Unzip the file, and place the entire wp-admin-tiger folder into the /wp-content/plugins directory. For clarification, the plugin file ‘wp-admin-tiger.php’ and plugin file directory ‘wp-admin-tiger-files’ should be located in the /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-tiger/ folder. After the files are in place, browse to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area, and activate the plugin. The administration design should immediately change. To revert back to the original design, just deactivate the plugin. No core files are (nor should be) modified to install this plugin.

While you’re sorting through folders of images or PDFs, why not also add keywords to them so they’re easier to find with Spotlight later? Preview makes this easy. Drag the images or PDF files you’d like to tag into Preview and then select Tools: Get Info (or just press Command-I). In the Document Info window, click on the Keywords tab. Click on Add and then enter the keyword you’d like to use. If you have a group of files open, you can then simply click on the next image or PDF in the drawer. The window will change to reflect the selected file’s information. When you’re done, save the files. The next time you perform a Spotlight search, you’ll be able to use the keywords to home in on your target.—RG