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iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix - Part 2
An interim update to the MailExchange2iCal-TZ-fix script fixes a parsing failure for .ics invites delivered only as attachments or in base64 encoding, and corrects the script so it runs reliably from a Mail rule.
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iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix
A single AppleScript solution is presented to fix the broken time zone information that Microsoft Exchange injects into iCal meeting invites, preventing Mac users from missing meetings by correcting the TZID before the event is imported.
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URL Rewriting
A reposted tutorial covering Apache mod_rewrite, explaining how to transform messy dynamic URLs into clean, human-readable ones using basic redirects, regular expressions, trailing-slash rules, and match modifiers.
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Running SpamAssassin locally
A walkthrough of using DisSpam with SpamAssassin in a cron job to filter POP3 spam before it reaches an iPhone, including a custom patch that checks headers against a hash file first to dramatically speed up processing of large mailboxes.
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More sed
A brief note about using sed to inject verification meta tags into the head section of a freshly rendered HTML page, with a candid admission that sed is powerful but not quick to write.