Open .dat attachments on Mac OS

Occasionally in Mac OS, I’ll get an e-mail with a .dat file extension. .dat is pretty generic, but typically this is from an older Microsoft e-mail program bundling the message and one or more attachments into the .dat. The Microsoft program knows what’s...

Gmail Notifier hack for Mac OS X

I’ve been using Gmail Notifier for a couple weeks now, and it is growing on me. The default value for checking for new mail is something like 4 minutes, much too long when I’m in the middle of a busy day and have people counting on me to be on top of my...

Hide MobileMe Icon in MacOS

Every time Apple pushes out a new MacOS update, for some reason the MobileMe and International preferences icons keep reappearing. For the International preferences, you can go to Apple menu –> System Preferences… –> International –>...