March 9, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: apple, How To, windows
Posted in How To, Questions, mac | 4 comments
Given:
Microsoft Outlook – created by Microsoft. Platform: Windows.
Microsoft Entourage – created by Microsoft. Platform: OS X.
Requirement:
Move emails from Microsoft Outlook to Microsoft Entourage.
Common sense suggests:
In Windows, launch Microsoft Outlook, export everything to a .pst file. Copy this file to a USB drive or burn it to a disc. Copy it to Mac OS X, launch [...]
Jodi writes in:
I wasn’t sure who I should contact about this, so i am sending this to you. As of late, word attachments coming from my friend on a Windows XP Machine appear as “winmail.dat” files.
When I try to open these, the text runs about 150pp long, (it’s a 4page doc) and the [...]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS kiddies,
Comodore64 back again to shed some light for any newly ordained Mac users that are carrying over from the M$ world. Since Mac is gaining a kind of strangle hold on the industry, I’m pretty sure there are a lot of guys like myself who have a PC for certain purposes and a [...]
May 13, 2008 - 4:00 am
Tags: apple
Posted in mac | 1 comment
I don’t know about you sometimes we find files that were downloaded weeks ago and wonder where they came them. Usually on my PC I just shrug my shoulders open it up and see.
Well, it turns out that OS X has this little known feature built-in. You just have to select the file and hit [...]
March 21, 2008 - 11:33 am
Tags: apple
Posted in mac | 1 comment
AtA shows some Mac love this morning with our Question of The Day.
Apparently you can – and get your IP and some other semi-important information as well. We can have this tidbit show up on your login screen each and every time you login with a lil’ old hack from MacOsXtips.co.uk
When you start up your [...]
March 3, 2008 - 5:30 am
Tags: apple
Posted in mac | 2 comments
More specific Spotlight searches for our Mac friends! Spotlight searches are sometimes not as good as they should be, especially if you have a lot of files with similar names.
It is possible to narrow your results down by specifying the type of file you are looking for by adding “kind:type of file”.
This should bring you [...]
February 3, 2008 - 8:50 am
Tags: apple, Question, review, Tips
Posted in mac | 9 comments
Okay, I have been politely asked by Karl to bring a little bit of Mac/Apple love to this blog. While I think this may just be part of his devious plot to get a Apple Air for review, I have agreed to oblige. So here it is my first Ask the Admin’s [...]
December 29, 2007 - 5:41 am
Tags: apple, contest, review
Posted in mac | 32 comments
Have you ever heard the saying – the best thing since sliced bread? Well how about one better with some toast?
That’s burnt toast – a CD/DVD burning suite from our good friends at ROXIO. We had a contest for the PC side now we want to show some Mac love so, Mac users it [...]
December 21, 2007 - 7:50 am
Tags: apple, review
Posted in mac | 6 comments
In honor of my second Mac certification course today I will be featuring a Mac Slash Pc question. Marky Mark needs to be able to attach a PC hard drive with NTFS partitions and transfer the data to their mac (where we will be connecting the drives). In the end we want to see [...]
December 16, 2007 - 5:38 am
Tags: apple, funny, Geeky Goodness
Posted in mac | 12 comments
Have you seen the latest commercial from Apple for the Mac? It is the same PC versus Mac concept except the characters look like they are straight out of the “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” animated classic.
I am not a Mac user, but I know a lot of you are out there are. Either way, [...]
July 30, 2007 - 11:15 am
Karl,
Thank you for the prompt reply (much sooner then I expected). Your guidance while helpful I am afraid cuts my MACBOOOK PRO out of the picture (I think), I am currently using ENTOURAGE as my organizational tool. 1. How can I transfer (sync) what I currently have in ENTOURAGE with the virtual Exchange Server. 2. Once my contacts from ENTOURAGE are synched with the virtural exchange server (free service), how secure will my information be?
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July 30, 2007 - 11:43 am
Entourage syncs, with Exchange 5.5 or better, to keep your virtual exchange server up to date with your Entourage data.
Then you can sync over edge, gprs or wifi with your new virtual exchange server. Mind you these are hoops to jump through to get MS to play nicely with your mac but we are still looking for another solution for you.
Anyone?
Update the site is not taking any new members! Doh!
Back to the drawing board…
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July 30, 2007 - 11:48 am
Found another free exchange service (http://live.mail2web.com/)and a description of how one user got it to work with their wm6 device check it out below. It also looks ike they offer a pay service with ssl and more features.
Right had a right plaver to sort this out and finally got a solution where I can sync my contacts and calender from my mac with my SPV E650 (WM6) mobile phone but there does not seem to be a solution as of yet for file transfers.
It works like this:- Address book and calender sync with Entourage, which in turn syncs with a free exchange server to which I can sync my mobile device with via Activesync.
So down to the nitty gritty….
Get yourself a free basic subscription to a exchange server such as Mail2Web Live.
You can then set up your mobile device via the instructions provided on the mail2web site.
Now you need to set up Entourage to sync with your preferred calender and address book either the OS X own or iCal or Address book (this is done by going to entourage preferences, make sure you use the correct option at stage 3).
To set up Entourage for a exchange server just follow these steps:-
Open Entourage
Go to the “Tools” menu and select “Accounts”
From the “New” menu, select “Exchange”
Click “Configure Account Manually”
Enter the following settings into the dialog box
Account Name – Anything you like such as mail2web etc
Account ID – Your exchange server account name. I had to use x…x_mail2web_ although apparently x…x@mail2web.com is supposed to work
Password – Your Exchange password
Domain – Enter your Exchange domain. For Mail2Web, enter the domain you used to configure your device
Exchange Server – Enter the address of your Exchange Server. For Mail2Web use exchange.mail2web.com
Select the secure server option
E-mail address – Enter your preferred email address.
and that should be your lot any probs then post a comment and I will try to answer any of your queries
From here: http://www.knightlore.com/general/sync-between-a-wm6-device-and-mac-solvedsort-of/
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July 30, 2007 - 12:16 pm
i use web2mail just for this with their free account. So far so good!
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July 30, 2007 - 1:39 pm
hmmm look at this:
http://james.manners.net.au/2006/11/13/free-windows-mobile-activesync/
or maybe this:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/jul01/macs.asp
nothings easy yet without an exchange server or PC Virualization. Hopefully they will support us Mac users soon enough – i think the pc ppl using iphones are having similar issues.
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July 31, 2007 - 11:05 pm
they just updated the missing sync over @ http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_windowsmobile.php its $40 though
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