When you are stuck behind a corporate firewall, it can seem like the end of the world. hwoever, if you can SSH out, then all is not lost. Using port foorarding and SSH tunnels you can acheive pretty much anything you need. In this article we run through how to set up and use SSH [...]

In Tiger, OSX 10.4, Apple changed the format of mailboxes in Apple Mail from the standard MBOX format to EMLX files. It’s plausible that in recovering data from a hard drive that both formats will be found. In recovering data using applications such as SubRosaSoft’ FileSalvage and MacForensicsLab Apple Mail is particularly picky in the kind of files it will recognize and import, and the wrong text encoding is enough to cause problems. The trick is therefore to use a series of applications to import and convert the files so that they can finally be re-imported to Apple Mail.

Recently, whilst having to hard reset my Sony-Ericsson mobile phone - a w850i in fact - I have to quickly find a way to backup my sim and mobile contacts to my Apple, Mac OSX based machine to safeguard against their loss during the full restore.

The solution I came up with to do the backup [...]

Recently, because of the release of Microsoft Office 2008 for the Macintosh, I have been receiving a lot of requests from individuals who are unable to open the new default DOCX format that is saves Word documents as. Ostensibly, this is because the recipient is running Mac Office 2004 or earlier, versions incompatible with [...]