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File items in Safari's Book...

As you probably know, Safari allows you to rearrange the entries on your bookmarks bar via a simple drag-and-drop. You can move both individual bookmarks as well as bookmark folders using this method, and it works great. But what if you’d like to move a bookmark (or bookmark folder) on your bookmarks bar into a folder on your bookmarks bar? You could use the Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks menu, of course, but there’s a simpler solution.

Rob Griffiths | Jul 30, 2008

Beginners start here: e-mai...

For both incoming and outgoing mail we need to know the mail server, whether the connection is established via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL, a form of connection encryption) and the port the connection is established over. For incoming mail, you'll always need the type of account (POP or IMAP) and the username and password (and occasionally the authentication method) — for outgoing mail, you need to know whether you need to authenticate with a username and password. There are numerous combinations of the options I've just listed, which can make troubleshooting a problem seem even more daunting.

Sean McNamara | Jul 17, 2008