Posts Tagged ‘Software’
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
October 7, 2009
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
If you see this error on a Windows server or above there is two ways to fix it!
One, remove the enhanced Internet Explorer Security – Bad.
Add the name of the server that your trying to execute from to your Internet Explorer Trusted sites! Just add \\servername
Thats it!
Make Mail.app look like Outlook!
September 27, 2009
I quite like mail.app, and now it plays nice with my Exchange box in SL, Im very happy.
What bugged me though is that I like the preview window in Outlook that creates the Window on the right of the screen rather than underneath, which makes sense for widescreen monitors.
Anyhow, found this: http://harnly.net/2009/software/letterbox/letterbox-beta-4-for-snow-leopard/
Which does exactly that, its donation-ware, and currently a beta for SL, but works fine here on my MB.
No affiliation, just thought Id share!
Rich copy – file copying for professionals
July 25, 2009
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx
“Except copying files is not always that simple. What if you’re copying thousands of files across a slow connection? What happens if your network hiccups and interrupts the copy? What if you want to make sure that you preserve particular file attributes, such as a Last Modified date, but not other attributes, like security descriptors? What if you want to filter the files you’re copying from source to destination based on filename or extension?…”
Force Safari to open all links in a new tab
July 15, 2009
I had this running since Safari 3 and the 4 beta to 4RTM and 4.1. For some reason 4.2 broke it again.
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/08/terminal-tips-force-safari-to-open-all-links-in-new-tab/
Apple Safari TinyURL Script
July 15, 2009
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/05/tinyurl-service/
Stunning little service that allows you to highlight a URL in Explorer and instantly (by a shortcut key) send it to TinyURL.com and get it to your clipboard.
Works. Nice.
Clearing Safari autofill forms on certain websites.
July 8, 2009
I love Safari and the way it seems to know what you want before you do, however, it sometimes can throw a wobble if you accidentally put a search string into a site, or a username into the wrong box on the wrong site.
Its annoying if you go to the same site and it autofills the wrong thing, however, you can clear it on individual sites without having to blow out the entire cache.
Open Safari preferences.
Click on AutoFill
Hit Edit on the form type you wish to clear.
Select the domain you wish to remove, remove it and hit done.
Thats it.
Of course you can reset the whole lot by clicking on Safari and then Reset Safari
Select only these options and it will blow the lot away.
Busted Spotlight?
July 5, 2009
Annoyingly, my MacBooks spotlight started to not index and provide links to my apps, specifically apps that were nested in other folders.
The command line to delete the Spotlight metadata and then reindex is this:
sudo mdutil -E /
From the Man pages:
NAME
mdutil — manage the metadata stores used by Spotlight
SYNOPSIS
mdutil [-pEsav] [-i on | off] volume …
DESCRIPTION
The mdutil command is useful for managing the metadata stores for mounted
volumes.
-E This flag will cause each local store for the volumes indicated to be
erased. The stores will be rebuilt if appropriate.
OSX Dreamweaver crashing
June 13, 2009
I was having some real issues on my MacBook with Dreamweaver crashing on Application launch. It was giving a massive error code that made no sense.
What was hugly irritating is that the rest of the CS4 suite works fine. Turns out is corrupt permissions on the installation folders, now some sites advise on resetting the entire applications folder permissions, but thats just stupid unless EVERY app is broken.
Anyway, to fix it for me I did this in Terminal from the Applications folder:
sudo chown -R root:admin “adobe dreamweaver CS4″
It takes a second to complete and then when you open Finder youll see all the file permissions are correct.
Dreamweaver now launches fine!
Free CD Burning Software
April 26, 2009
Having been searching for a while for a decent bit of software for burning CD’s and DVD’s I have found this: CDBurnerXP, from http://www.cdburnerxp.se
Works really well, has the same look and feel as Nero, without the bloat. True donation ware, so if you like it, give the guy a bit of cash!
Its also easily deployable via group policy if you get the MSI. Completely silent.
