Solutions & Fixes

Some hosting environments don't allow access to the xmlrpc.php, which is necessary for Mac desktop blogging applications to work with WordPress sites. These instructions will fix this connection issue, in many instances.

If you use Fluid.app as an SSB (site specific browser) for Facebook, on OS X 10.10.x, you may have noticed some display issues. Here’s how to fix them.

Here's a quick and relatively easy way to add new servers to the OS X Network Utilities WHOIS lookup server list.

Here are instructions on how to disable the Adobe Welcome Screen in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign 2014.2 through to 2015

Bluetooth failing and having issues after your Mac comes out of sleep? This is a known issue reported by OS X Yosemite users. Here's a solution that will likely resolve it.

If you wish to run local web services, such as CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV, websites, etc., you may want to connect over SSL. Here are instructions on how to generate self-signed SSL certificates, on Mac OS X that have the CA flag set to TRUE, and which will be accepted my Android devices (which are particularly fussy about how an SSL certificate is cooked up).