Portland Macintosh Users Group

Mac Discoveries by Allen Watson

Access Bookmarks for Multiple Browsers
AllBookmarks adds a new item to your Mac OS X menu bar giving you quick access to all your bookmarks. All your Safari, Firefox and Flock bookmarks are shown and can be selected. AllBookmarks also gives you accesses to your 1Password 1Click bookmarks so you can navigate to a page, fill the form, and submit it, all with a single click!The best part is, this program is free! You can download it here:Download AllBookmarks

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Download YouTube videos to your desktop
Here's an easy way to download a YouTube video to your local hard drive.... From YouTube, copy the link of the video you want to keep.

Mac Love, Not War

Engineered
As a computer consultant I get to walk into and clean up a lot of messes. Sometimes these are messes created by months of misunderstanding or simple neglect: logical misarrangement or the organic detritus of any natural process over time. Sometimes these messes are caused by a single catastrophic mistake...

Geeks R Us » Macintosh

You don?t have permission to access?.
I was trying to set up Web Sharing (apache) to try out Coda, Panic’s pretty cool editor. After enabling Web Sharing, I tried to access: http://localhost/~USER/ (where USER is my user name), however I was greeted with “You don’t have permission to access this page” I checked all of my permissions on /Users/USER/Sites/ etc, everything was fine. Then I made a new user, which worked. I kept hunting around and finally found the problem. When I used Migration Assistant to copy data from my old Mac to this one, Migration Assistant did not copy the apache configuration file. Oops. In order to fix this, you’ll need terminal and Text Edit. Make a new user Enable Web sharing (to force creation of a template configuration file) Open /Applications/Utilties/Terminal.app Enter ’sudo ls /etc/apache2/users/’ without the quotes and press RETURN. Enter your admin password to continue. Note the .conf file listed there Enter ’sudo cp /etc/apache2/users/.conf .conf’ replacing with the name of the new user you created, and with the name of the broken user. Press return. Open Text Exit.app Press CMD-O to open the choose file box Press the / key to open a “go to folder” dialog Type in ‘/etc/apache2/users’ without the quotes. Open your .conf file In the first line, change to Save your document Turn Web Sharing off, then back on Whew! Things should work now. Time to file a bug with Apple.

Charles DeVore's Weblog

For those of you using a MacBook Pro and a second monitor attached keep this in mind. There is a known bug that when you close the lid of the MacBook Pro it forgets about the monitor on your computer. Now this only effects people using an external keyboard and mouse with the lid closed while using the external monitor. When you open the lid back up it will not light up again until you go to the monitors control panel on the external monitor and tell it to look for other monitors (detect displays). At that point the internal monitor will light up and you will be able to use it again. This happens under 10.5.2 according to Apple, but I have seen it under 10.5.1 also «details»

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Go Green, the Natural Step and Sustainability
Going Green doesn’t always equal Sustainability I attended the Natural Step open house in Portland, Oregon last night. It was a great standing room only affair with beer and wine in ample supplies and food to die for. As I weaved my way patiently through their…