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 ...
How to Back Up your Entourage Email on your Mac
Are you using Entourage for email, and Time Machine for backup? Entourage stores all email in one giant database, which gets bigger every time you get or send an email. And having a big database means frequent database corruption. Time Machine backs up everything new once an hour, which means ...
Entourage Web Services Edition gets jet lag
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about my work is that just when I think I've seen everything that can go wrong with a Mac, something new and crazy comes along. Well, that was sure the case today: an Entourage Web Services Edition user could suddenly no longer connect to her Exchange ...
Easy Archiving of Entourage Emails
What do you do when your Entourage email database gets huge? The best thing to do is to archive some of it. For example, perhaps every January you'd like to archive all emails older than 2 years. Well there are 2 different easy ways to do it. A program that’s been around for years and years is ...
Giving your assistant access to your calendar and contacts
If you’re on the Mac, and using Apple Address Book for your contacts and Apple iCal for your calendar, how do you give your assistant/partner/spouse/best friend full access to this information, so he/she can add, change, and delete entries? With iCloud If you have an iCloud account, it’s easy to ...
IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail–the combo
In this week's issue of TidBITS (an incredible Mac resource, by the way--and they just had their 19th anniversary!), Joe Kissell has an article about IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail, and how he mixed and matched features and functions to get his email system working perfectly for his needs. The article ...