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

Make your Mac into an internet router! Sometimes it’s convenient to use a friend’s internet connection for a moment, when visiting them at a hotel, or a Starbucks, for instance. You can share to and from many of your connections, including airport (wifi), ethernet and even firewire.

Visiting a friend at the Hyatt Regency yesterday to listen to his presentation at the InHowse Designer conference (brought to us by How Design ), I found myself in his room afterward. He could get internet access through an ethernet cable by his desk, or through WiFi, however, the connection is good for only one computer… unless, you use that one computer to provide access to other computers.

This past week we had a prospective customer putting one of our Zimbra hosting services through the wringer, testing e-mail, calendar and contact synchronization. He noticed when moving e-mail from his inbox to a subdirectory (aka directory or folder), he duplicated e-mail instead of the expected process of “moving” e-mail: copying and deleting.

We traced this anomaly to his testing environment: he had both the Zimbra web interface open and Mail.app. We suspected because they are both active IMAP clients attempting to synchronize their data with the server, organizational changes made in one while the other is also operating may lead to the unintended duplication of some e-mail.

Where can you meet a professor who figured out how to use 2 Mac optical mice and a ping-pong ball to record and measure the direction and velocity of insects as they respond, and don’t respond, to sounds?

From Monday morning October 16 through Wednesday evening October 18, I attended Neuroscience 2006 at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta, GA. I stayed nights with my friend from college, a doctor living in Rome, GA, and his beautiful family, which was great, except for the traffic, blech!, which trapped me in the car for 4 hours each day.

Tim Gaden of Hawkwings.net shares his list of useful Apple Mail plug-ins, including applications that allow you to send & receive Gmail, Hotmail and AOL mail, among others from the Apple Mail application. Visit: http://www.hawkwings.net/plugins.htm