Richard's Notes

iStat Menus is the Menu Bar version of iStat Pro.

Don’t ask questions … download and install both programmes. Donate to iSlayer if you find their programmes useful to you.

By default, Apple Mail displays message dates in the format

17 July 2009 9:56:23am

That’s all well and good, but one of my many quirks is that I like to know which day of the week occurred on the 17th July. So, how do I get Apple Mail to display the message date as

Friday, 17 July 2009 9:56:23am

The answer is in the System Preferences. Go to System Preferences -> International -> Formats and click on the Customize … button within the Date section. Edit the Long date format to include the day of the week. After saving your changes, the change of date format takes effect when you open the next message to read it.

Last night, I purchased my first iPhone.

At 7:45pm on Friday night, I walked into the Apple Store here in Sydney and asked if they had any black 32GB iPhones in stock. The guy at the counter had a look in the drawer, found a few boxes and asked if I’d like to buy one. “Yes” was my reply. He got to filling in the electronic forms on his little wireless terminal gadget. About five minutes later and AU$1,040.00 poorer, I was the proud owner of a shiny new black 32GB iPhone. Yes, I bought the iPhone outright, so it’s not locked to any particular carrier.

Sad part is … I still haven’t swapped SIM cards and plugged the iPhone into iTunes yet. I’ll do that tomorrow.

For the moment, I’ll just use my current phone plan to get the hang of the iPhone. I’ll have to do some research to find an appropriate plan for my meagre phone usage.

If you use GPGMail and send e-mail to recipients who use mutt, make sure that you check the By default, use OpenPGP/MIME option on the Composing GPG preference pane.

If you don’t check this option, mutt is unable to detect that you’ve signed and/or encrypted your e-mail using gnupg. Your recipient will have to save the message and decode it by hand.

Checking the By default, use OpenPGP/MIME option allows mutt to automatically detect that you’ve signed and/or encrypted your message and will decode it automatically for your recipient. Now, that’s the experience you want for your recipient.

It appears that MacGPG 1.4.9 works. Thanks to the developers.

I successfully installed MacGPG without any apparent issues. I’ve logged out and logged in again and everything seems to be working smoothly. So far so good.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have now installed GPGMail. It works well. I’ve got it GPG encrypting and decrypting my e-mail in the Apple Mail client. Thanks to Sen:te.

I’m using the Apple Mail client to connect to my Linux based mailbox using IMAP. It’s working well. I need to reconfigure my Linux mail client, mutt, to work with Apple Mail mailbox names since it’s easier to configure mutt than it is to configure Apple Mail.