This is the possible first in a series of posts on Gmail's idiosyncratic behaviors with Mail on Macs, iPhones and iPads. Many of our clients who interact exclusively with their Gmail or Google Apps accounts through their Macs and iPhones have reported messages "disappearing". Here's what's usually ...
Disable Apple Mail Inline Attachments
Some research the other day led me to a helpful blog post explaining how to stop attachments from showing a preview of a PDF and/or image. If you would like to make this the default behavior you’ll need to use the Terminal to set the preference. Terminal is in Applications>Utilities. Open ...
Calendar event corruption with Entourage/Outlook, iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, and Exchange 2010
IvanExpert has discovered serious calendar-related bugs (software defects) which arise in specific cases when Microsoft Outlook for Mac (or Entourage), iOS devices (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch), and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (which is what hosts such as Intermedia use for new accounts) are used ...
Identities in Outlook for Mac (like Entourage has)
Entourage had the ability to "switch identities." An identity was a competely separate user profile; if you made a new identity, it was as if you had started a fresh copy of Entourage. It was originally indented for multiple user situations, dating back from the Mac OS 9 days before there were ...
Why Entourage Sucks
Entourage causes so many problems, mostly due to its large database. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Fg_T6c8W0 Transcript of the video: The truth is that as an application, Microsoft Entourage is not bad, but what really sucks is that it stores everything--all the mail, all the calendar, all the ...
How to set up Google Apps or Gmail on a Mac
You can set up your Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book to automatically synchronize with a Gmail or Google Apps account. (I'll cover the best way to do it on an iOS device in a future post.) Mail: Log on to your Gmail account (or Google Apps account, which I will refer to generically as Gmail ...