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Bugs & Fixes: Yahoo Mail won’t send

If you’re an AT&T;/Yahoo DSL user having trouble sending e-mail, you’ll want to read Ted Landau’s advice on how to fix the problem.

Quick and easy folder sharing in 10.5Learn how to easily share folders with anyone in Leopard.
Use a spring-loaded Path Bar in 10.5's FinderThe Path Bar in OS X 10.5 is a useful addition to the OS, but it's not "spring loaded." Or is it? Learn one spot where you can, in fact, use a spring-loaded Path Bar.

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Bugs & Fixes: Yahoo Mail won’t send
If you’re an AT&T;/Yahoo DSL user having trouble sending e-mail, you’ll want to read Ted Landau’s advice on how to fix the problem.
Quick and easy folder sharing in 10.5
Learn how to easily share folders with anyone in Leopard.
Use a spring-loaded Path Bar in 10.5's Finder
The Path Bar in OS X 10.5 is a useful addition to the OS, but it's not "spring loaded." Or is it? Learn one spot where you can, in fact, use a spring-loaded Path Bar.
Beware DVD copying software
Looking for software to archive your DVDs? Google is not your friend.
Working Mac: Evade e-mail exasperation
If you’re like 99.7 percent of computer users, your e-mail client gets more of a workout than any other software you use. Christopher Breen rounds up some common e-mail problems and provides solutions to help you keep them under control.
Dust kills
Dan Frakes takes his own advice about Mac maintenance and winds up fixing a problem involving dusty internal components.
Search for some iTunes lyrics in Leopard
In OS X 10.5, you can use Spotlight to search for lyrics in certain types of iTunes music files.
Digital Photo: Color correcting digital camera images
As far as digital technology has come, there’s still one thing that digital cameras won’t do: give you perfect color every time. But unfortunately, every digital camera sneaks some kind of color cast into your images. Here’s how to get your color in line.
Moving Mail accounts offline
Here are a couple of options for moving specific Mail accounts offline.
Adding some magic to GarageBand songwriting
Stuck on how to achieve that perfect sound for your song? Try GarageBand’s Magic GarageBand feature, which is also a great way for beginners to get started with music-creation software.
Bugs & Fixes: This document will be updated
Ted Landau finds two recent examples of Apple-recommended Terminal work-arounds.
Turn off the ‘Use disk for Time Machine?’ warning
Learn how to disable the “Use this drive for Time Machine?” dialog that pops up in Leopard when you connect an external drive for the first time.
Open new windows via Command-Tab in Leopard
A simple trick to open new windows—or undock a docked window—using the Command-Tab application switcher in OS X 10.5.
Wrestling with DVD region coding
Care to play both Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs in your new Mac? Here are your options.
See Spotlight’s indexing progress
Learn a simple trick to see how much of your hard drive Spotlight has indexed during a re-indexing operation.
This, that, and the iTunes Store
Apple has been quietly tweaking the iTunes Store. Here are some changes you might not have noticed.
Geek Factor: Automating Word with AppleScript
Unfortunately, Word 2008 doesn’t support VBA. The good news is that, with a little tinkering, almost anything you could do with a VBA macro in previous versions of Word, you can now do with AppleScript in Word 2008.
Photo Booth and flipped images
You say you'd like to reverse Photo Booth's mirror images? It's easily done with a single command.
Fix and prevent iPhone freezes and crashes
Freezes and crashes are generic iPhone problems that can occur in any iPhone software, from Safari to Maps. In this excerpt from Take Control of Your iPhone, Ted Landau explains how to recover from freezes and crashes and how to avoid them in the first place.
Disable the 10.5 X11 warning-on-quit dialog
If you use X11 in OS X 10.5, you’re probably annoyed by its new ‘are you sure?’ warning whenever you try to quit the program. Learn how to disable it.

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Bugs & Fixes: Yahoo Mail won’t send
If you’re an AT&T;/Yahoo DSL user having trouble sending e-mail, you’ll want to read Ted Landau’s advice on how to fix the problem.
Quick and easy folder sharing in 10.5
Learn how to easily share folders with anyone in Leopard.
Use a spring-loaded Path Bar in 10.5's Finder
The Path Bar in OS X 10.5 is a useful addition to the OS, but it's not "spring loaded." Or is it? Learn one spot where you can, in fact, use a spring-loaded Path Bar.
Beware DVD copying software
Looking for software to archive your DVDs? Google is not your friend.
Working Mac: Evade e-mail exasperation
If you’re like 99.7 percent of computer users, your e-mail client gets more of a workout than any other software you use. Christopher Breen rounds up some common e-mail problems and provides solutions to help you keep them under control.
Dust kills
Dan Frakes takes his own advice about Mac maintenance and winds up fixing a problem involving dusty internal components.
Search for some iTunes lyrics in Leopard
In OS X 10.5, you can use Spotlight to search for lyrics in certain types of iTunes music files.
Digital Photo: Color correcting digital camera images
As far as digital technology has come, there’s still one thing that digital cameras won’t do: give you perfect color every time. But unfortunately, every digital camera sneaks some kind of color cast into your images. Here’s how to get your color in line.
Adding some magic to GarageBand songwriting
Stuck on how to achieve that perfect sound for your song? Try GarageBand’s Magic GarageBand feature, which is also a great way for beginners to get started with music-creation software.
Bugs & Fixes: This document will be updated
Ted Landau finds two recent examples of Apple-recommended Terminal work-arounds.
Turn off the ‘Use disk for Time Machine?’ warning
Learn how to disable the “Use this drive for Time Machine?” dialog that pops up in Leopard when you connect an external drive for the first time.
Open new windows via Command-Tab in Leopard
A simple trick to open new windows—or undock a docked window—using the Command-Tab application switcher in OS X 10.5.
Wrestling with DVD region coding
Care to play both Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs in your new Mac? Here are your options.
See Spotlight’s indexing progress
Learn a simple trick to see how much of your hard drive Spotlight has indexed during a re-indexing operation.

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Quick and easy folder sharing in 10.5
Learn how to easily share folders with anyone in Leopard.
Use a spring-loaded Path Bar in 10.5's Finder
The Path Bar in OS X 10.5 is a useful addition to the OS, but it's not "spring loaded." Or is it? Learn one spot where you can, in fact, use a spring-loaded Path Bar.
Working Mac: Evade e-mail exasperation
If you’re like 99.7 percent of computer users, your e-mail client gets more of a workout than any other software you use. Christopher Breen rounds up some common e-mail problems and provides solutions to help you keep them under control.
Search for some iTunes lyrics in Leopard
In OS X 10.5, you can use Spotlight to search for lyrics in certain types of iTunes music files.
Digital Photo: Color correcting digital camera images
As far as digital technology has come, there’s still one thing that digital cameras won’t do: give you perfect color every time. But unfortunately, every digital camera sneaks some kind of color cast into your images. Here’s how to get your color in line.
Moving Mail accounts offline
Here are a couple of options for moving specific Mail accounts offline.
Adding some magic to GarageBand songwriting
Stuck on how to achieve that perfect sound for your song? Try GarageBand’s Magic GarageBand feature, which is also a great way for beginners to get started with music-creation software.
Turn off the ‘Use disk for Time Machine?’ warning
Learn how to disable the “Use this drive for Time Machine?” dialog that pops up in Leopard when you connect an external drive for the first time.
Open new windows via Command-Tab in Leopard
A simple trick to open new windows—or undock a docked window—using the Command-Tab application switcher in OS X 10.5.
Wrestling with DVD region coding
Care to play both Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs in your new Mac? Here are your options.
See Spotlight’s indexing progress
Learn a simple trick to see how much of your hard drive Spotlight has indexed during a re-indexing operation.
This, that, and the iTunes Store
Apple has been quietly tweaking the iTunes Store. Here are some changes you might not have noticed.
Geek Factor: Automating Word with AppleScript
Unfortunately, Word 2008 doesn’t support VBA. The good news is that, with a little tinkering, almost anything you could do with a VBA macro in previous versions of Word, you can now do with AppleScript in Word 2008.
Photo Booth and flipped images
You say you'd like to reverse Photo Booth's mirror images? It's easily done with a single command.