h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My powerbook just had it's harddrive zeroed, and since reinstalling I've noticed a couple of changes.

One is that Safari shows my RSS feeds without the title highlighted on the new ones. It's annoying as with some large feeds I can't remember where I am up to.

The other is that Mail sporadically prompts me for the password to some (but not all) of my pop accounts and asks me if I want to add them to the keychain. I say no (because I've never used the keychain), and it usually lets me access the email accounts a few times and then it asks for the passwords again. The difference might be there is a restart in between. Also annoying.


Any ideas as to what's with that?

You have to bookmark the RSS feeds before Safari starts to track which headlines you read and which you haven't. If you say you *have* bookmarked them, then I don't know. Maybe deleting the bookmark and doing it again will help?

I always use the keychain, so I have no idea how anything is supposed to behave without it. If you're freaked out about having the keychain remember your passwords and supply them too easily, go into Keychain Access and change the settings to lock the keychain more frequently. It will then prompt for you keychain password before filling in your other passwords. You can even set you keychain password to be different from your login password for more security - it's very flexible, and secure.

Yes I have bookmarked the RSS feeds and have been reading the digests all year. Normally the new ones have the title highlighted (does yours do that?).

When I imported my bookmarks after the zero all data, the RSS feeds all turned up as if I hadn't seen them i.e. the number of unreads was way higher than it should have been. But I've cleared all that now, so the new ones do show up in the number, but just aren't highlighted on the page itself.


I've just never sat down and figured out how the keychain works. My mac is very unsecure. I don't log out so anyone that steals it has access to my email accounds, h2g2, etc etc.

I really should do something about that

did you make sure to do a system update to get the latest version of Safari and everything?

Yep, updates done. I did the system updates before I imported the bookmarks.

I'm not keen on resubbing to al the feeds as there is quite a lot of them.

Maybe I'll do a feed on a new site and see how it appears.

check your preferences too, there's an option to color the new items - perhaps that got turned off accidentally.

That's the one, thanks