Abhi Garg
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Moving Emails from Outlook (Windows) to Entourage (Mac)
Mar 9th
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 Entourage in Mac OS X and import the .pst file.
Well, that’s what I thought.
The real solution:
It turns out Microsoft does NOT support email interchange between Outlook and Entourage. I was horrified shocked Not Surprised to learn about this lack of interoperability.
Entourage can only import from it’s own archive format .rge or mbox files (text format files). Unfortunately, Outlook can NOT export to either of the two.
After doing some research and reading about convoluted methods of exporting one folder at a time from Outlook, converting those to mbox format and importing it in Entourage, I stumbled upon this excellent utility.
It’s a Windows application and costs $10. You can download it and pay for it online.
Simply install it on your Windows OS and launch it. It will automatically read your Outlook files and convert them to Mbox format, and PRESERVE the attachments!!
Once the export is over, copy the newly created mbox files and port them to Mac OS X. Launch Entourage and import the files. You will lose Outlook Rules though. Also, the folders will be renamed per ASCII standards i.e. no blank spaces. Blank Spaces will be replaced with underscores.
It’s possible that Entourage may suddenly not recognize mbox files either but don’t worry – there’s a work around. Import the mbox files in iMail. Then, import iMail emails into Entourage.
Another Microsoft horror story? What’s your take.
Running Windows applications on Mac OS X without Windows.
Sep 14th
For people who have to live in both PC and Mac world or who migrated to a Mac after several years with a PC – this article can help you.
Although it’s “cool” to have a PC and a Mac on your desk but it’s not practical unless you just want to boot both the machines but work on one and keep the other running to show how sophisticated you are.
There are several ways of running Windows applications on Mac OS X. Let’s focus on them one at a time:
Apple Time Capsule Review. Cross platform router and backup device.
Sep 12th
Model: 1 TB
It was time for me to upgrade my wireless router; I’d been using a Linksys WRT54g for over four years. Plus, I wanted to see, for real, the speed gains of wireless n.
I spent a lot of time studying the possible candidates for a replacement, including Linksys WRT600N, Linkssy WRT610N, Netgear variants and Dlink gaming routers. The thing that really made it easy for me to finalize the replacement was the split personality of Time Capsule as a backup device. I’m sure there are plenty of users out there who would call the Time Capsule’s routing functions as secondary and it’s being a backup device as the prime feature. Either way, Time Capsule excels at both.
Time capsule comes in two variations: 500 GB and 1 TB. As the nomenclature suggests, the difference lies in the internal hard disk capacity.
I bought the 1 TB version.
