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Parallels shared Mac apps won’t populate

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

We are back to using Parallels again given issues with Entourage, so one question is that Mac Apps sometimes won’t populate. Darrell says that in the latest build, you can’t have a locked toolbar, this somehow prevents choosing Applications/Mac Apps/Populate from working.

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Entourage Calendar Sharing

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

This is a great example of having to read your posts to remember crazy stuff. In this case, I want to share my calendar from Entourage to Entourage. How do you do it with a hosted Exchange. Man, I did this originally then promptly forgot how. There is a item at Mobility Today that explains [...]

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Swimming in Exchange Calendar Duplicates

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Entourage, Exchange, Geek

I don’t know what is doing it. Entourage, the many synchronizer, but I’ve got 1100 duplicate calendar entries which is depressing since I deleted 500 last week. Time to buy a deduplicator. There don’t seem to be any for Entourage that don’t take weeks to run, so I’m having to do this with Outlook under [...]

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Audiobook Cd Backup with Max Mac Fission for splitting and MP3 Trimmer for joining

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

If you have a series of audiobook CDs that you want to backup. What is the easiest way to do it. Well, you can use iTunes to back it up. You want to set it to use very small files. I normally go to iTunes/Preferences/Advanced/Importing and set it to MP3, custom with 32Kbps and 24Khz [...]

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Remote desktop between Mac and PC

July 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Geek

I use Microsoft Remote Desktop between Windows machines and it is very convenient to logon and see the screen of another computer. For Apple, they have something called Share Screen which is the same thing and is based on VNC protocol that lets you control one computer from another. But what if you want to [...]

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Kerio vs. Exchange for Entourage, Mac OS X, iPhone and Blackberry

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Entourage, Exchange

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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