A blog from The Design Loft geeks about SEO, web design, traditional marketing, some iPhone stuff and general geeky ramblings.
Mac Dashboard Freezes / Mac Dashboard Not Working – Try This
Jul 11th
I had a very bizarre situation last week where my Mac Dashboard started experiencing freezes, and when the Mac Dashboard freezes your widgets just do not work!
I’d never come across it before and, after some digging around on plenty of forums I was advised that if my Mac Dashboard is not working, it could be an issue with a corrupt preference file.
Mac Dashboard Freezes / Dashboard Not Working – The SolutionOpen up: home folder > library > preferences and delete: com.apple.dashboard.plist.
Now restart your Mac and all of your Dashboard widgets should be reset to default and working again.
Stop The “Play / Pause” Button Controlling iTunes When Using Spotify On A Mac
Jul 9th
This is only a little one but it was a right pain in the proverbial…. When you’re listening to Spotify on your Mac and you hit “Play / Pause” on your little Mac keyboard, sure Spotify pauses – but iTunes opens up too; if you’ve already got iTunes open (syncing your phone for example) then it starts playing the selected track.
What a pain!
Anyway, thankfully there’s a very easy fix…
Stopping Your Mac “Play / Pause” Button Controlling iTunes When Listening To SpotifyAll you need to do is hold down “Shift + Alt” whilst you press “Play / Pause” and voila, More >
How The iPhone Has Changed The Way I Work
Jul 7th
I’ve been working on a few bigger blog posts which I’ll be getting around to publishing over the next few months and something has occurred to me; as I write these posts I keep dipping in and out of WordPress on my iPhone to add and edit things within them, as the ideas enter my head.
This is something I couldn’t have done a few years ago and it got me thinking: how has having the trusty iPhone (or smart phone of your choice) affects the way I work.
Aside from the usual gaming / time killing that I do on my iPhone whilst More >
Merging Two Apple IDs For Use With iTunes
Jun 30th
Ok so whilst I was trying to solve my MobileMe POP3 problems I then realised that actually, I probably want to have my MobileMe address as the one I use for iTunes etc.
Problem is, when you try changing your (in my case) Hotmail address to your Me.com address, you get an error saying that the Me.com Apple ID is already in use. Which it is, by you.
Now you have two Apple IDs.
So, like any good geek, I tried merging two Apple IDs for use with my iTunes library but couldn’t. I didn’t want to use two IDs as there’s More >
Setting Up MobileMe To Send & Receive POP3 Email On iPhone & Mac
Jun 28th
Hey all
I’ve been looking for a way of setting up MobileMe to send & receive emails from my POP3 email accounts for a few days now, every solution that I came across had issues, until now (so far so good!).
Note: This does not use mail forwarding. I wasn’t keen on that…
The problem: I run a personal @me.com address and a work POP3 account. The POP3 account always annoyed me as I always wanted one place to login in and send and receive emails from, no matter what account I wanted to use.
I tried GMail and Hotmail as repositories for my POP3 email More >
Google Offers Insight Into What Makes A Great Backlink
Jun 23rd
Hey all, just a quickie today – but something potentially very valuable.
Google has posted a very interesting article on their Webmaster Central blog regarding what makes a good quality backlink.
The usual fare is present about directories not having the weight they once did, not creating spammy content and so on. But one of the main highlights of the post is that Google points to “community involvement” which seems to indicate a nod to social media.
With the impact of social media on SEO being closely scrutinised, I wonder whether this will provide a clear view point on it, or at least go More >
