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If you get a lot of mails every day there is a very useful and quick tip for you.

Automated mail sorting in Apple’s Mail.app:

I have only two rules for now, but they do a great job for me and I can save some time on searching for mails from my family or friends.

Of course there are many different conditions in Rules. You can flag or set the color of mail title, move message to another mailbox,  bounce it or etc.

To enable and add new rules go to Mail–> Preferences or Press cmd+, and open the tab Rules.

Tip taken from: http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink/2008/12/29/copying-mac-address-book-to-lg-viewty-lg-ku990/

Since 2008 I have had a new phone-LG KU990 Viewty. It is all great, but there is one thing… due to the lack of  SyncML protocol you can’t sync it with your Mac.  But there is a way how to do this partially.

How to simply copy your mac contacts to your phone:

• Open Address Book,
• Use CMD-A to select all the entries in your Address Book,
• Navigate to “File” -> “Export” -> “Export vCard…”,
• When prompted save the vCard.

Send file through bluetooth:

• Click the Bluetooth icon in the Menu Bar and navigate to “Browse Device”,
• Select your phone name from the list and click “Browse”,
• Tap “Yes” on the Viewty to accept the incoming connection request,
• On your Mac, click the “Send…” button in Bluetooth File Exchange,
• Locate the vCards file that you saved earlier, and click “Send”,
• Once the transfer has completed, the Viewty should prompt you to “Restore Contact backup file”, tap “Yes”.

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

A mini how-to install wget on Leopard:

You have to install Xcode Tools to fill all dependences (GCC, make). You will find it on your Leopard DVD in Optional Installs.

1. Download the source from: wget-latest.tar.gz
2. Untar it using command: tar -zxvf wget-latest.tar.gz
3. This creates a folder named wget-X.XX.X. Change the working folder to it: cd wget-X.XX.X/
4. To configure the build type: ./configure
5. Then build it using: make
6. And install with: sudo make install
7. The wget binary should now be in your /usr/local/bin folder.
8. If you are using bash shell put PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin into .bash_profile in your home directory. If you don’t have that file create it:  touch .bash_profile and then edit: nano .bash_profile .
9. Restart or open new terminal window.
10. DONE!