Update: The below was tested on Parallels Desktop 6. Commenters have reported that it doesn't work on Parallels Desktop 7. I'll be taking a closer look at some point. One bit of under-the-radar good news in Lion is that Apple has changed the licensing terms of their End User License Agreement: they ...
Solid State Drives in the MacBook Air
What is a Solid State Drive (SSD), and what are the options for SSDs inside a MacBook Air? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqjRTjkipp0[/youtube] Transcript of the video: There are two kinds of drives you can have inside your Mac laptop, unless you have a MacBook Air, in which case you ...
How to set up Lion Server via Screen Sharing (VNC)
We just set up our first Mac mini with Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) Server preinstalled. Being a server, it will have no keyboard, mouse, or screen attached to it. We needed to go through its initial configuration remotely. Apple theoretically makes this easy for you. If you download their Server Admin ...
Converting an ACT Database to FileMaker for Mac
For one of our clients, we took a client management database created in ACT for Microsoft Windows and exported all data in relational databases to FileMaker, so the data could be used on a Mac. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8qHo4LHnbQ&feature=channel_video_title Transcript of the video: We ...
How We Created a Specialized Spam Filter
One of our clients was getting a lot of spam in Russian on his Mac. Here's how we created a specialized email filter to eliminate the Russian spam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6JnRl0ILTA&feature=channel_video_title The transcript: We have a saying around here at IvanExpert which is that ...
Reliable Entourage Backup Using Applescript
Entourage is very difficult to back up because it stores all of its data (every email message for every email account, and every account itself, and every contact and every calendar) in a great big file--a database. It's a fragile database, and if it becomes corrupted, it has a utility to try to ...