Trying to upload photo’s from your iPhoto application via Mail.app and mail2blogger? It will not work unless you switch to “Plain Text” (Shift+Apple+T) in the Apple Mail application. It seems that when iPhoto creates the email message in Mail.App it inserts additional markup into the mail which confuses blogger.com. The result is a blog page with broken links. If you manually attach a photo into Mail.App then the problem does not occur, which is why I think that iPhoto puts additional formatting into the mail message. In fact you can see that it does by looking at the raw source for the email (View->Message->Raw Source).

There are many support threads which indicate folks having problems running their Macbook pro’s with external displays.

I found that switching the “Energy Saver” preferences to “Higher Performance” solved my display issues on a 2009 MBP. My recollection is that the energy saver preferences change how the video chipset operates in order to save power.

Previously, I was not able to run my external monitor at the highest (native) resolution in VGA, but found it was fine when using DVI. After I fiddled with the energy saver prefs, the monitor worked in native resolution (1600×1050) in both VGA and DVI.

I experienced a weird problem whereby no images were loading in Safari (yet Flash was working) but everything was fine in Firefox. I tried cleaning out caches, and reset virtually everything. The real problem turned out that I had accidentally checked the item “Disable Images” under the “Develop” menu.

I guess it works!

Looking for something like Solaris’ ‘pmap’ on OS X? Try ‘vmmap’ from the terminal window. It outputs the per-segment memory usage, and all the usual stuff like which libraries are mapped, and where. The final section gives a nice summary. The o/p below is from Firefox, which was using over 700Mb of pysical RAM. I am currently experimenting with Flock, which supposedly has better memory management. I think the first issue I might have is that I use the 1Passwd utility pretty heavily, and I do not know if it is supported in the flock browser.

==== Summary for process 1473
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=130.6M resident=44.2M(34%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=86.3M(66%)
Writable regions: Total=1.8G written=1.0G(53%) resident=875.7M(46%) swapped_out=552.6M(29%) unallocated=1.0G(54%)

REGION TYPE             [ VIRTUAL]
===========             [ =======]
ATS (font support)      [   33.9M]
CG backing stores       [   11.9M]
CG raster data          [   2084K]
CG shared images        [   3208K]
Carbon                  [   1464K]
CoreGraphics            [    328K]
IOKit                   [  256.0M]
Java                    [  161.0M]
MALLOC                  [    1.3G]
Mach message            [      8K]
Memory tag=240          [      4K]
STACK GUARD             [   56.3M]
Stack                   [   20.0M]
VM_ALLOCATE ?           [   16.6M]
__DATA                  [   7780K]
__DATA/__OBJC           [     32K]
__IMAGE                 [   1240K]
__IMPORT                [    852K]
__LINKEDIT              [   12.6M]
__OBJC                  [   2296K]
__PAGEZERO              [      4K]
__TEXT                  [  118.0M]
__UNICODE               [    532K]
mapped file             [  103.5M]
shared memory           [   50.1M]
shared pmap             [   4124K]