From the editor: Would you like the ability to easily access web sites you set up by name, instead of by number? If so, you'll want to use Virtual Hosts in Apache which will let you do just that. Read the rest of the article for jaccorens' instructions on how to configure it. I have not done this yet on my machine, but intend to ... someday when I get some free time!

With the release of mail.app and OS X, Apple switched the mac.com email server from POP to IMAP. For most users, the change won't have a dramatic impact. However, there's a key difference between IMAP and POP. With POP, you retrieve your messages from the server, and (unless you tell it otherwise) they're deleted from the server. IMAP basically functions the other way around - when you're looking at your email in mail.app, you're actually looking at the IMAP server (those who know IMAP better than I can probably give a better description of the actual process). mail.app won't download and remove your mac.com mail unless you actually (a) delete it, or (b) move it to another mailbox. This has led some users hitting mac.com disk limits due to a large amount of email kept on the server.

If you'd like a simple method to prevent this from happening, read the rest of the article. This solution was distributed by Ron C. to the X4U mailing list.

I really loved the "Connect To..." alias from macOS 9 and below. Unfortunately, Apple neglected to put something like it in OS X. I decided to take matters into my own hands and created an OS X script that opens any URL as specified in a dialog box from OmniWeb. You can download the working applet, or the source if you wish @ http://homepage.mac.com/the_hoffmans/
email me at the_hoffmans@mac.com if you like it!

If you get mail with a picture from somebody sending mail with Eudora and you try to read it in Mail.app you might need to tell them to re-send that picture as an attachment and not embedded between lines of text. If they don´t the only thing you see of that picture is a tiny little purple icon. Me and a friend triple checked this in mail sent with Eudora (5.x) and we also used AppleDouble, AppleSingle, BinHex and Uuencode data fork. So ask them not to paste or drag & drop any pictures between lines of text. They can paste the picture after the last word or as an attachment.

I don´t know if Mail.app is to blame but I know the problem will end up in Apple's Mail.app for MacOS X. The different encodings do not affect the jpeg-picture or the message.

URL of a bad example in Mail.app

Midnightposer

With OSX's built-in .pdf capability, saving web pages is super easy and you get to capture the full beauty of the page (layout, colors, and images intact).

Here are the quick and easy steps:

1. From your browser (OmniWeb, etc.) press Command+P (or select File -> Print).
   
2. At Print window, click on "Preview".
   
3. You'll be brought to Preview program; select File->Save as PDF.

That's it. Happy viewing your saved, perfectly-preserved web pages.

--Vip Malixi

If you have Airport configured to behave as a Software Base Station, it will prevent classic applications from accessing the Internet.

[Editor's note: This tip points to an article on how to use Mac OS X's UNIX core to create an emulated Airport Base Station.]

This is really only relevant if you've followed the instructions from StepWise on how to configure and install Apache 1.3.19 and PHP 4.0.4pl1. What I discovered was that when you restart Apache, it will basically hang because of an error related to the apxs binary in /usr/sbin (take a look in the Console app for the exact error).

If you want to run your web server with WebDAV capabilities enabled on it, you will need to download the latest version of mod_dav, configure and install it, replacing the pre-installed module for Apache. The information for installing mod_dav can be found on the mod_dav site, but I will summarize it here.

Read the rest of the article for an excellent how-to on installing WebDAV support onto your new Apache...

I noticed that you talk about how to compile lynx. There is a *much* better text based web browser called "links" it resides at this URL. I downloaded and compiled it without any problem. It handles tables, and frames correctly. It is my browser of choice on OSX... it has yet to crash on me in many many hours of use.

WebDAV folders allow you to manage your webserver by looking at familiar folders, instead of via an FTP client. Now you can drag and drop updates to your webserver very easily.

Here's a great tutorial on how to make them work:

http://osx.macnn.com/features/webdav.phtml

[This link no longer works, but the comment to this article contains a link to information that does work in 10.2 and newer...]