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Tuesday, March 9, 2004 |
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, everyone but me uses Windows at my company. Of course, since we're a startup I admin. everything so I can make allowances to make things work better for me. There are some handy tools that I've run across along the way.
We run an Exchange server for e-mail and scheduling. The e-mail is really no problem, as Exchange supports IMAP quite nicely. Calendaring has been a problem, though. I tried out Entourage when it shipped with support for Exchange calendars a while back. I never could warm up to Entourage, though. I like the combination of Mail, iCal, and Address Book better. The combination just seems to fit with the overall MacOS experience. Plus, I like the bits of integration like Mail showing when addressees are active in iChat, iCall and Address Book working with iSync, etc. I did miss the ability to view my own and others' Exchange calendars in iCal, though.
Consequently, I was very happy when I found Snerdware's Groupcal. Groupcal allows you to publish and subscribe to Exchange calendars from iCal. I've been using it since it was in beta, and now it just blends into the background. I love that I'm able to sync my Exchange calendar to my T68i via Bluetooth without a problem. I highly recommend it if you're working in a similar environment. |
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MacRumors reports that "[a]ccording to one unconfirmed source, Federal Express may be looking to make a significant purchase of Macs to replace their current PCs."
I would be more skeptical of this if I were not now much more involved in IT than I have been in the past. Now that I'm seeing up close the havoc that viruses, worms, adware, spyware, etc. are wreaking on the Windows platform, I think a strong case could be made for MacOS in corporate environments. I believe it is a better choice than Linux on the desktop from Sun or anyone else. With MacOS you can still keep the Microsoft Office suite and a lot of other mainstream applications, but you can escape most--if not all--of the malware out there.
Why hasn't my company switched? Well, we do depend on some proprietary applications that only run on Windows. Also, everyone is very attached to Outlook. It stays in the back of my mind, though, and I keep my TiBook. That way I can at least be sure that one of our machines stays unaffected. |
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Ars Technica reports that Google is testing a new look and points to Jesse Ruderman's bookmarklet that allows for toggling between the old and the new.
To say the change is subtle is an understatement, IMO. I think I actually received the new look cookie on one of my other machines, and I never noticed the difference really. I suppose I like the new look marginally better. I hope Google will discuss the motivation and process behind it in the future. |
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