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Pear Fix for “Error: Unable to Unpack”

Recently while trying to install some Pear packages, I received an odd “Error: Unable to Unpack” message. A search for this error message found a lot of complaining people and not a lot of answers. I finally figured out the cause and the fix for this common Pear problem.

iPhoto ’09: Rate Your Photos in Batches

Sitting down and rating the photos you just imported from your camera can be a long and painful task. By using batches to rate your images, you can have them finished in no time.

Route selection by host reachability with Cisco SLA

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Cisco’s SLA features, available in IOS other than IP Base, allow modification of the routing table based on a monitored item. In this example, we’ll monitor an Internet address, and change the default route if that address is unreachable.

iPhoto ’09: How to Change the Key Photo for a Group in Faces

If you want to use a different photo to display on the Faces corkboard for a friend or family member’s group of photos, a couple of clicks will get you there. In no time flat, you’ll have that perfect pic representing that person.

OS X Mail: Automatically Check Your Spelling When You Are Finished Composing an Email

By default, Mail checks your spelling as you type. If this distracts you and causes you to lose focus on the message you are composing, you can set Mail to wait and check your spelling when you are finished.

iTunes 8: Enable Half-Star Ratings

The 5 star rating system in iTunes just doesn’t quite make the cut. There are songs that are definitely better than a 4 but not quite a 5. How do you account for rating songs more accurately towards your liking? By enabling half-star ratings you have 10 units of measurement instead of only 5.

iTunes 8: Automatically Import Inserted CDs

If you’re like me, you import every CD you get into iTunes. Instead of being prompted to import a CD everytime you insert one, you can have iTunes import the CD automatically.

iPhone SDK: Solve [UINavigationController pushViewController:] unrecognized selector sent to instance

I adore coding to the iPhone SDK. It’s the most joyful coding I’ve done in the quarter century (gasp!) I’ve spent coding various computer systems. It’s a combination of Objective-C (elegant) and Cocoa (beautiful). There is one exception I keep getting and just infrequently enough that I forget why I get it. I thought someone might benefit from this because it’s an easy trap to fall into.

IE7/IE8: How to Disable Automatic Image Resizing

When you view large images, Internet Explorer’s default settings make the browser resize the image to fit within the browser window. If you would like to see the image in its original size instead, you can disable this functionality.

Outlook 2007: How to View Nonconsecutive Dates on the Calendar

Outlook’s calendar displays normally displays dates in a consecutive manner. Sometimes, however, it is useful to view several nonconsecutive dates on your Calendar.

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