http://problemstosolve.com A Blog dedicated to solving problems. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:29:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For a couple weeks now I've been wanting to create a Pandora station specifically for Bartók's String Quartet No. 4 in C Major. I want to find more classical music that sounds like this. Now that Pandora supports classical music, I would try typing in "Bartok" into the search function, ... http://problemstosolve.com/computers/how-to-bypass-pandoras-vague-search-function-solved/ Based on this URL hack to sort google results by date, I made a bookmarklet: javascript:location.href =location.href + '&as_qdr=d'; Now if you google search and then click this button, it will sort your results by the newest date. Works in FF and Safari. http://problemstosolve.com/computers/google-sort-by-date-bookmarklet/ If you're as obsessed as I am about tracking some packages, you'll get sick of typing in your tracking number and submitting the form over and over. But if you go to: http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSInternetWeb/InterLabelInquiry.do it doesn't work because the form used a POST method. Well, on the previous page, the form input field was ... http://problemstosolve.com/computers/usps-tracking-package-hack/ For a while I was getting a maddening "The iPhone cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (13213)" error every time I would try and sync my iPhone. No amount of iphone resetting or iTunes restarting would solve my problem. Finally this apple disccusion solved my problem - I had ... http://problemstosolve.com/computers/iphone-21-cannot-be-synced-unknown-error-with-itunes-80-solved/ I've used parallels for years and never noticed the "Use Multiple Displays" option of Coherence mode. It's accessible via the Edit > Virtual Machine settings when you shut down your VM, but it's also hidden away in View > Customize... which you can access during runtime. Now I can finally drag ... http://problemstosolve.com/os-x/run-parallels-in-coherence-ode-with-two-monitor-solved/ I have my iTunes music library, samples, video files, and more on an external drive, and the 5 second delay of my drive spinning up is annoying at best and prevents me from working at worst. I finally just found the menu that disables the external drive from spinning down. ... http://problemstosolve.com/os-x/stop-external-hard-drives-from-spinning-down-on-os-x-solved/ As neat as the accelerometers on the iPhone are for switching between portrait and landscape modes, it gets to be annoying as hell trying to read when you're lying down. You naturally hold the phone sideways when you're lying down, and then the screen rotates, turning the text 90° away ... http://problemstosolve.com/computers/read-safari-on-the-iphone-while-lying-down-rotation-workaround-solved/ -edit2- Ok now the yahoo plus mail server has stopped working so my second solution works best: You have to log into yahoo AT&T mail, click on settings, go to original mail settings, click on management, mail accounts, and verify each email address that you want to send with. More info here, ... http://problemstosolve.com/computers/att-mailapp-the-sender-address-was-rejected-by-the-server-smtpattyahoocom-solved/ What a dumb sounding title. You'd think something like this would be easy. Sorry, I'm slightly bitter at AT&T after a week's worth of phone calls to get my DSL up and running and to get a router on the network. Even after threatening to cancel service, after telling them ... http://problemstosolve.com/os-x/use-a-router-with-att-dsl-solved/ I have too many calendars. I've managed to consolidate most of them though: First, I synced my work Outlook calendar (on my PC) to my gcal with the fantastic app Google Calendar Sync. I gave it my info and told it to sync both ways every hour. Then, I subscribed to my ... http://problemstosolve.com/os-x/sync-iphone-with-google-calendar-and-outlook-solved/