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

If you’ve tried to configure your free GoDaddy.com domain e-mail address with Apple’s OS X Mail, you’ll find it’s not the most straightforward thing in the world. There’s also not a whole lot of options for support. I recently found settings that work marvelously with Apple’s OS X Mail, and would like to share them here.

Account Type: POP
Incoming Mail Server: mail.yourdomain.com
User Name: full email address
Password: (your password)
Under the Advanced Tab
Port: 110
Use SSL: Not checked
Authentication: password

Outgoing Mail Server: smtpout.secureserver.net
Server port: 80
SSL: not checked
Authentication: Password
User Name: (user name from GoDaddy.com)
Password: (your password)

The news is VMWare is producing a competitor to Parallels called Fusion, enabling Windows and other platforms on the Mac. According to reports, the private beta site describes the product: “Fusion is the codename for a new VMware desktop product for Mac that will enable Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X. It is built on VMware’s robust and advanced desktop virtualization platform that is used by over four million users today.”

Thanksgiving for the mobile set: why pay for mobile email, contacts and calendaring when you can now get it for free from Google ?

While the current, major limitations on the number of supported devices and carriers , as well as the functionality (it’s POP only, for one example, making synchronization challenging), make it the choice for few this holiday season, it’s certainly promising at least for spurring competition and development in mobile data communications. Note one doesn’t need the new app to view Gmail: browse it from most mobile devices using Google’s improved mobile browser .

Robin Good’s Kolabora is worth a look for people interested in developing a context for developments in online collaboration.

Last week I visited Zimbra, dropped by a prospective customer on the way to the Apple Campus, and later took one of my brothers out for dinner.

Flying into San Francisco from Chicago first thing in the cold, dark morning, I drove a bright red Hyundai rental 15 minutes away to the Zimbra headquarters in San Mateo. During the drive, pulled-over twice to answer my cell and speak with customers, so arrived about 20 minutes later than expected. Lucky for me the Zimbra kitchen is well-stocked with snacks and every conceivable caffeinated beverage (thanks, Jamie)! It’s the kind of snack emporium about which as a college student, and for sometime thereafter, I dreamed. [Insert choral crescendo and harps here.]