A spe­cial guest post­ing from Scott Theede:

Have you ever been exper­i­ment­ing with iWork (Pages, Num­bers, Keynote) and your free trial has run out leav­ing you unable to make any changes to your documents?

There’s a quick way to get around that restric­tion, say if you needed to have a fully func­tional keynote for an extra day of free trial for that impor­tant presentation.

Head to your hard­drive direc­tory, in my case Mac­in­tosh HD, then go to Library, then to Pref­er­ences, then look for the file com.apple.iWork09.plist (also works for iWork0X.plist, depend­ing on which trial ver­sion you are running)

Mac­in­tosh HD -> Library -> Pref­er­ences -> com.apple.iWork09.plist

Then sim­ply delete the file. Open up any of your iWork apps and with you can start a new 30 day trial.

I do not con­done doing this end­lessly; how­ever, it’s very use­ful in those instances when you need some extra time.

If, for some rea­son, you decide to pull a key off your Mac­Book (or in my case, Black­Book) key­board and can’t fig­ure out how to put it back on, there’s a great lit­tle walk-thru on flickr. Here’s a link to the set or you can watch the slideshow below.

By the way, there’s plenty of good rea­sons to pull a key off your key­board (clean­ing being one of them). If you just pull it off because you’re want­ing to avoid doing other work, just look at the pic­tures below instead. It’ll save you a lot of hassle.

If you’ve recently upgraded to Flash Player ver­sion 10, you may be see­ing some­thing sim­i­lar to this:

Key­chain “name” can­not be found to store “sam­pleitem“
Your key­chain may have been renamed, deleted, or it’s on a unmounted vol­ume.
You can then click Can­cel or Reset To Defaults. The alert may appear again.

Here’s a link to the Apple sup­port doc­u­ment on how to resolve that.

The key­chain is where Safari stores all of your passwords/logins that you have it save so you don’t have to remem­ber them all the time. For some rea­son, the Flash upgrade seems to be cor­rupt­ing your key­chain and then Safari thinks it has to cre­ate a new one. Hope­fully you catch it before it com­pletely erases your keychain!

HawkWing.net is a great blog for find­ing tips, tricks and fixes for Mail.app — the default email client on a Mac.

The site was dor­mant for awhile, but recently woke up and has resumed posting.

Inter­est­ing side note, it’s run by Tim Gaden who is Dean of the The­o­log­i­cal School , Col­lege Chap­lain and Stew­art Lec­turer in The­ol­ogy at Trin­ity Col­lege within the Uni­ver­sity of Mel­bourne. He also teaches Greek.