This article explains a handy trick how to export emails from Microsoft Outlook Express and import them into Apple’s Mail.app, but also to almost any other email client. The trick is to migrate the emails using an intermediary IMAP email account.

Suddenly, from one second to the other, I couldn’t successfully synchronize my iPod or my mobile phone, with my Mac anymore. During the synchronization process the SyncServer background process went crazy and started generating very high CPU-load without ever terminating. I don’t know what caused this problem but I have finally found a hack that fixed [...]

This article shows how to set up a LaTeX editing and processing environment on Mac OS X. The suggested environment bases on the TextMate editor and uses PDFview for viewing the resulting PDF files.

In a recent comment by Gernot on my blog I was asked how to add images to MardownPages created with my RapidWeaver Markdown Plugin. It turned out, that this is pretty simple, although there are some catches to it. Hence, I will share the following recipe with you: add a new page of type Markdown [...]

The system-wide spell checking facility of Mac OS X allows you to use the spellchecker not only in dedicated text editors, but virtually in any textbox in a user interface. However, if you are writing regularly in different languages, you will find yourself switching between languages frequently. I was recently asked, whether there is a way [...]