Mac Outlook 2011 Calendar Sync Issue w/ iPhone

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Okay, here's the bottom line. If you own a Mac and use Microsoft's Outlook to manage your calendar, it will not synchronize w/ your iPhone or iPad, period, and Microsoft has know about the issue since last year!  This is why I am furious, and become more angry each day! My nightmare started several months ago when I made the decision to transition away from PC's over to Mac. I prolonged this decision as long as I could for one reason and one … [Read more...]

What’s In Your Toolbox?

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It’s going to be a long weekend… With the help of my good friend Keith Crawford, I plan on reformatting my primary development machine today and doing a clean install of Windows 7. This project is long overdue, I can’t remember the last time I reformatted my drive, in fact this SATA drive that I am using now initially ran XP and then VISTA before I upgraded to WINDOWS 7 last year.  Fortunately I am pretty diligent when it comes to … [Read more...]

Installed Parallels on MacBook Pro

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I blogged a few weeks ago about how I had recently purchased a MacBook Pro after having using Windows based PC’s my entire professional life.  I knew going in that the transition to a Mac wasn’t going to come fast, I had spent years learning shortcuts and applications inside the Windows environment and honestly some things about the Mac are total opposite.  While I still have continued to use my Dev1 and Dev2 machines for client projects … [Read more...]

Outlook .PST to Entourage

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Update: Eric Caldwell turned me onto a solution for doing this conversion / import, plus a whole lot more email migration related tasks.  It's called Emailchemy.  You can pick that tool up here for $29. Well worth the money if you ask me. Okay, so I posed a question today on Twitter to some of my friends who are hardcore Mac users as to how I can import my Windows based Microsoft Outlook .PST files (containing 11 years worth of business … [Read more...]

Rumors About Microsoft Opening .PST Data Format

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If you follow the information technology industry very close you might have heard some rumblings that Microsoft plans on opening up their proprietary PST data format documentation to developers under the OSP, or Open Specification Promise.  The documentation they release will contain how data is stored, guidance for accessing the data, and how to navigate the folder hierarchy and how various objects are stored. By allowing this data format to … [Read more...]