This is a bit of rehash, but it felt worth rehashing. It's been well established, such as in this tutorial, that you can use the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion download from the Mac App Store to make a Lion installer USB stick. However, that doesn't help if you bought a new Mac and it came with Lion. When a ...
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 ...
Mac Mini Server Setup Without a Screen or Keyboard
Did you know you can set up a Mac Mini server with OS X 10.7 Lion even if you don't have a screen and keyboard attached? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j71C-pZJhd4 Transcript of the video: We had a bit of a triumphant moment here at IvanExpert the other day. We measure triumph in our ability to ...
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 ...
Lion: the recovery partition, and how to save the build of Lion your Mac needs
When you install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, or buy a current Mac, one of the things that happens is that 650 MB of your drive space is set aside into a "recovery partition". You can use command-R, or the option key, during startup and your Mac will be able to start from there. The Recovery Partition is a ...
Apple Mail, IMAP, and special folders
Note: everything below can be generally applied to most any IMAP mail application, including Outlook, Thunderbird, and the version of Mail included in iOS. Only the details vary. Unfortunately, no standards exist as to what IMAP special folders should be called, so every mail host and IMAP client ...