The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

While Zimbra has worked with the Tiger and Leopard desktop applications such as Mail.app, iCal and AddressBook for some time, Zimbra/Yahoo! has now updated its Zimbra Collaboration Suite server software itself to run on Apple’s Leopard operating system:

http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21441 

Zimbra version 5.0.5 supports Leopard, a boon for those organizations wanting to use new Mac hardware to run the popular mail and collaboration server software. Note this is for running the software yourself, if you just want to use Zimbra, you can avoid licensing or server hardware/maintenance/hosting fees, instead use an authorized, Zimbra hosting provider such as 01.com .

The Zimbra blog has a demonstration of how CalDAV works to sync between Zimbra’s calendar server and iCal on the Mac.

http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/2008/03/caldav_leopard_goodne

Apple has a site that answers this, and presents options:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107657

 Update: The upgrade to Zimbra 5 was performed successfully.  01.com is accepting orders 24/7 for Zimbra 5 through their automated sign up and activation system.

01.com has confirmed it’s upgrading to Zimbra 5 this weekend.

See their blog about the planned update to Zimbra 5.0.2 here .

Zimbra is the collaboration suite that provides, email, calendar and contact sharing and delegation for Macs, that also works with Windows and Linux, making a top tool for mixed, cross-platform environments, instead of Exchange, Notes, Groupwise or Google Apps.

“We’re pleased that Zimbra users can take advantage of the world’s fastest browser with Safari and improved iCal group calendaring with CalDAV in Leopard,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations.

Commenting on this announcement of Zimbra 5’s improved support for Safari 3, iCal and the iPhone, Daniel Stone, Channel Manager for 01.com , an authorized Zimbra hosting provider, said, “We are building a strong network of Mac Consulting resellers around the world, and this is great news for them and our mutual customers. They’ve been successfully positioning Zimbra as an alternative to Microsoft Exchange for the last year, delivering better Mac email, calendar and contact integration at a lower cost, and the solution is just getting better.”

Through software update.  My MacBook Pro sometimes suffers from keyboard freeze, glad to get a fix!

“This update addresses a responsiveness issue on MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers. Some MacBook and MacBook Pro systems may occasionally experience a temporary suspension of keyboard input which can last a minute or longer. The Mac OS X 10.5.1 update is required before installing the MacBook, MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1.”

Eddie asked “is there a way to sync the birthdays in my iPhone contacts with the calendar?”

You have to go to iCal prefs and select show birthday calendars and then resync the iPhone. Then in iTunes, you’ll have the Birthdays calendar available to check off. Resync and you’re in business. Screen shots included below.

1. Check off show birthdays calendar under ical>preferences.

2. Sync Your iPhone.

3. You will now have a Birthdays calendar to choose in iTunes under info.

4. Now just sync the phone again and you are all set.

So you’ve changed ISPs, tested out multiple email hosting services, and have finally settled into a small series of email addresses that you are going to stick with for awhile. Apple’s Mail.app stores all the SMTP servers you’ve used in the past in your preference file and asks what server you want to use for sending email when the default server is unavailable. This is great except for one thing - you’ve got 10 old servers that are useless for sending email still stored in the memories of the software. You’ve long since deleted the old accounts and can’t find discover where these old servers are lurking around. Here are three solutions:

If you business depends on your Mac(s), our recommendation is to wait to upgrade to Leopard, at least until 10.5.2, unless you have some compelling, practical reason to upgrade sooner. Here’s a true, and so far fairly common story of a Leopard upgrade scenario, names and organizations are withheld, and permission to share verified.

Posted on 05 Nov 2007 12:07 PM

How to determine if you’ve been infected.

In the last day there’s been some news about a new bit of somewhat-malware on the mac. “Somewhat” because at least in its current form, and relative to some very nasty virii out there, this code rates as just above harmless. That it was announced on Halloween is probably the scariest thing about it. Never-the-less, it is an unwanted and uninvited bit of code, and here’s how to determine if you’ve been infected.