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Apple Mail Searching

Since I’m using Apple Mail.app now for a couple of weeks I had a strange problem. One day I wasn’t able to search the whole text of a mail in Mail.app

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Import Opera into Apple Mail.app

Since Apple added MS Exchange support into OSX Snow Leopard, it makes quite some sense to use the internal Apple Mail.app.

Being an Opera user for since version 3.x (can’t remember) and loving the M2 mail client (because it’s extremely fast if you search and well suited if you handle 100.000 email) I first want to test Mail.app under heave load.

Ok, no big deal. Just import the Opera Mails into Apple Mail.app. Works right out of the box. But... Opera stores every mail in a single MBS file. This is mostly a mbox format. No problem, Apple Mail.app can handle it. But... you will get a hierarchy inside Apple Mail.app, that reflects the layout of Opera MBS files. Folder, subfolder, subfolders, etc...

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Full Blown Calendar Syncing

Finally there is a good way to sync calendars for Non-Outlook / Non-Exchange users.

Being a Mac user now and using Opera since version 4 as my email client, I was cut off the calendar syncing "technology" a couple of years ago anyway.

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Handling TXT Files on OSX and Windows



Being a OSX user and still a Windows user too I have to deal with TXT files on both systems. I'm writing most of my programming documentation in my own make-doc-pro (MDP) format. The MDP format is a simple text based markup language.

However, if you open a TXT file with special characters like Umlaute on OSX, you will see strange characters. This is because OSX and Windows use different character encodings.

Windows mostly uses the so called ISO-8859/Latin encoding. OSX uses the Western (MAC OS Roman) encoding. But we are lucky because most OSX text editors let you specify the text encoding method that should be used.

The problem is, that most encodings use a different wording, so you need to know what encoding is related to ISO-8859/Latin. The unofficial convention is that this encoding is described as Latin-9. This is because the ISO-885 part is not mentioned (and it is assumed that everyone on this planet knows this) and the Latin-9 just states that it's the ISO-885(9) standard.

So, if you want to open Windows TXT files try to use an encoding that is named Latin-9 or something like this.

To avoid all if this hassel you could use the Unicode UTF-8 encoding because this will support much more special characters than Latin-9. And UTF-8 is supported on OSX and Windows as well.
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OSX & ZFS

Yesterday I installed ZFS support for OSX to give it a try. It’s not ready for prime-time yet but you can get read/write ZFS support pretty easy for OSX.

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Starting scripts via Finder

These days I'm using scripting languages a lot. Especially Rebol. Further I use some pre-processing scripts to setup the environment for my scripts so that dynamic libraries etc. can found on different platforms. Working on Windows, Linux and OSX with the same scripts requires this.
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