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Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Here’s how you can start the FTP server in Mac OS X Lion:

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Type in the following command:

sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

3. To turn it off, type in the following command:

sudo -s launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Need IE on mac ? Use winebottler . It installs Wine and provides options to install IE6 and IE7. Totally Sweet !!

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

The following concatenates two files and writes the result using LZW encoding:

tiffcp -c lzw a.tif b.tif result.tif

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

This evil problem could have an easy solution

1. Right click desktop , select properties

2. goto Desktop tab, select ‘customize Desktop’

3. goto Web tab, uncheck ‘My Current Home Page’, then click ‘Properties’ and uncheck ‘Make this page available offline’

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Troubleshooting Tips for Mails going to spam.

a. make sure your sender domain is registered with major email providers (like yahoo, hotmail, gmail etc)

Then get a list of people who are receiving your emails tagged as spam.

Make a separate mailing list of these users only.
Send the same email to them that was tagged as spam, but this is the way you will do it.
Send it without a body, but only Subject intact – check if it goes to spam.
Keep repeating this exercise by adding one paragraph at a time and keep sending the email.
At one-point in time, the email will go into spam and the last paragraph you added is probably suspect.
Don’t stop. Remove the paragraph and keep adding the remaining paragraphs until you have finished the entire body. There could be multiple paragraphs.
This will for sure highlight where the area of spam tagging lies and then you can work on that.
To be 100% sure it is that specific paragraph, send the email again with only the suspect paragraph and it should be tagged as spam. In this test, you will know beyond a reasonable doubt – that it is the suspect paragraph that is causing this.

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