apple no pic

For articles such as this one that have no accompanying image, we use coding within the theming layer of Views to add a default thumbnail image if the story appears on the [l:http://www.venturacottage.com frontpage]. This relates to the tag that is attached to the story so for example in this case the apple tag is translated into the parent taxonomy of fruit.

Coding then checks the image directory for fruit.png and serves it up next to the relevant title.

The code looks something like this:

if($output==''){

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Read email name and subject

Providing tech support means (sometimes) feeling chained to your mac computer. Even in the evening, when you hear the sound of an email arrive you feel the need to go and check it out in case it is important.

This script means that the name and subject are read outloud, so only the urgent/interesting ones need to disturb you!


on perform_mail_action(info)
tell application "Mail"
set theMessages to |SelectedMessages| of info
repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
set thisSender to sender of thisMessage as string

About a Mac - speeding up and getting support

Apple Macs are great to use but when you are used to MS Windows it can be a bit of a learning curve. Here are some helpful hints.

Apple Care
This support service is great and costs around £40/year also giving insurance cover on your Mac. When so many of us now have "free" calls to standard numbers it is a nuisance that AppleCare gives only an 0870 number - fear not just phone one of the Apple Stores eg 0207 71539000 and select tech support from there, it's the same system.

S L O W....
First go to Finder > new finder window > HD > Library > drag cache folder to bin