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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 .

You can now watch a guided tour of many of the 300+ new features in Leopard, Apple’s new version of OS X, version 10.5, here . There are so many new features, and many existing features and applications have been drastically improved upon. This release of Leopard was well worth the extended wait.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Changes in Boot Camp 1.2 beta

Boot Camp 1.2 beta contains several updates and is intended for all new and previous Boot Camp beta users.

Boot Camp 1.2 beta includes:

• Support for Windows Vista (32-bit)
• Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime (synch), audio, graphics, modem, iSight camera
• Support the Apple Remote (works with iTunes and Windows Media Player)
• A Windows system tray icon for easy access to Boot Camp information and actions
• Improved keyboard support for Korean, Chinese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, and French Canadian
• Improved Windows driver installation experience

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is essentially a means of controlling another computer remotely. It can be done on a LAN or over the internet. People use it for all sorts of things, but offhand, it sounds like it would be great for tech support, right? Assuming the problem isn’t a network one, you could just VNC into Grandma’s computer and fix the problem. Unfortunately not. VNC usually requires a bit of configuration, most of which if not all needs to be done on the client-side. And since Grandma is the one who needs tech support in the first place, she’s probably not going to be capable of forwarding ports through her firewall. Even if you managed to set it all up in advance, invariably an IP address will change or you’ll need some type of information that Grandma just can’t give you.