What are the advantages of using Microsoft Exchange with a Mac, instead of using Google Apps or MobileMe or another solution? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSE7DGdR8hA&feature=channel_video_title Transcript of the video: Microsoft Exchange and Mac are a pretty good solution that we recommend ...
Lion first impressions:
I've been using Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" for about a week, and here are some first thoughts. The "natural direction" scrolling, in which directions are reversed on the trackpad so that you are moving with your document rather than moving with its scrollbars, isn't really getting in my way, but isn't ...
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 ...
Snow Leopard as guest in a virtual machine, part two
Update: The below was tested on Parallels Desktop 6. Commenters have reported that it doesn't work on Parallels Desktop 7, which is indeed a drag. When I have some time I'll take a closer look. Yesterday, I explained how to install Snow Leopard as a guest in Parallels (or presumably another ...
Snow Leopard as a Parallels/VMWare/VirtualBox guest OS
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 ...