A client wrote yesterday and asked, what's the difference between Time Machine and Time Capsule? Time Machine is a piece of software that comes free with every Mac. When you set up and run it, the software makes a backup of your computer every hour, to any external hard drive. The first time it ...
Daylite for CRM on the Mac: First Thoughts
We started using Marketcircle's Daylite on our Mac computers in the office a few weeks ago as a way to do a better job of keeping in touch with current and potential clients, as well as for tracking status of projects. So the software and database are on our office server, with desktop "clients" ...
Use Your Mac to Access your PC at the Office
A client with an office in Queens and a home on Long Island has a Windows PC in the office, and just bought an iMac for his home. He asked, could we set up his home iMac to allow him to remotely access his PC at the office? He used to do it from home with his old PC but he wasn't sure if he could do ...
How to Give your iPhoto Photos to a Non-iPhoto User
Do you want to export your entire iPhoto library so you can give it to someone who doesn't use iPhoto or doesn't have a Mac? If you try to do it manually, by exporting each album, one at a time, the process can be very time-consuming. Here are two easier ways to do it. Open up the iPhoto library ...
Moving to Outlook for Mac from Entourage: Tips
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is out, and included is the much-anticipated Outlook for Mac. By the way, make sure you buy the Home and Business edition; the Home and Student edition doesn't include Outlook. (And yes, it makes no sense that one is called "Home and Business" and the other is called ...
Apple’s web site still counts like a computer, even if Macs no longer do
While Snow Leopard counts in powers of 10, like humans do, Apple's own software download page still counts in powers of 2, like computers (and those who program them) do. I noticed this because I was freaking out when the new Mac OS X 10.6.5 Combo Update clocked in at over a gigabyte while ...