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Apple - Support - Downloads - AirPort Utility 5.3.1 for Leopard. Wow, incredibly hard to find, but the Airport Utility let’s you look at individual client performance. Very cool, but impossible to find but it shows you the nominal bit rate of the link I think that is active and changes over time.

here is the [...]

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In the 7.3.1 firmware, you can now connect a USB Drive to a Time Capsule and then archive the 1TB disk itself. That is a backup of the backup. This is supposed to be fast. However, this is a one time copy so if you don’t have enough space on your backup USB drive and [...]

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Apparently, these are well know problems with Entourage putting duplicates everywhere. There is even a FAQ topics on duplicates thanks to Joe for the pointer. Now maybe I can get rid of the 30 entries for St. Patricks Day in my calendar.

There is a simlar set of utilities of iCal that google:”ical duplicates” and [...]

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Well we’ve narrowed down choices to two choices, two hosters against one of three desktop and two mobile clients. Here are the parameters:

Support for either of, in order:

Mac OS X application. That is Mail, iCal and Address Book that are native to OS X and which is fast.
Entourage 2004 or 2008 from Microsoft and typically [...]

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I don’t quite get where you are, but http://twitter.com/richtong is something I’ve started to use. It is great for two things, in case someone really wants to know where you are and doesn’t want to call I guess, but the really great thing is that with twitter IM and twitter texting, I can send URLs [...]

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Well, if you buy a Time Capsule, it works easily as an Apple network disk, but what about as a file server for Windows machines. This is a bit tricky, because of mapping, but basically, if you set it up to. By the way a big limitation is that the Time Capsule name must be [...]

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Hey watch out, I haven’t used the superdrive much, but when I left a DVD in there and on the airplane tried to play it, the DVD just grinded and stuck. I shook it like crazy, but it wasn’t till I got home that the drive seemed to actually start. Really recommend that you don’t [...]

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Well, it took me three days to do this, but finally figured out how to get an iPhone to use its internet connection over EDGE to be used with your laptop. Its convoluted because most phones allow what is called Bluetooth sharing and you are in. In the iPhone’s case, it is more complicated as [...]

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Entourage 2004 has just a massive file. Mine’s is currently 2.5GB and has ballooned to 5GB, you can compact it by holding down the “option” key and clicking on Entourage. This starts the database utility which copies and creates a new one.

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Amazingly there is nothing really on the web that is concise about how you copy Entourage calendars from one identity to another. For instance, if you are like me migrating from one Exchange installation to another that is, in my case hosted, then how do you do it. Here’s a quick guide:

Start Entourage in the [...]

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