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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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Contacts to Google hub and then down again to Address Book and iPhone

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Google actually has a contact system built into Google Mail. These are used just about everywhere, but most importantly you can use Google to synchronize contacts in Mac Address Book, iPhone and maybe even the Blackberry.
You unfortunately need third party tools to then take the contacts and push them to your iPhone (Nuviosync) and Address [...]

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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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Adobe Acrobat and clones

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

We are getting so many documents now in PDF, it would be easier just to paste a signature in. To do that we need Adobe Acrobat or one of its clones. There are an amazing number of editors since Adobe allows anyone to create a writer royalty free. Wikipedia has a big list. (Even Office [...]

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MacBook Air Disk problems and how to Remote Bookt

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · MacBook Air

Well, when my machine was freezing, I was used to Windows so my first thought was, uh oh, the hard disk is crashing. Ran Disk Utility and it asked me to Repair the disk with the installation Mac OS X. First note, you should always have this DVD with you whereever you go (I didn’t), [...]

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