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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 .

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

“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.”

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:

“Zimbra Mobile Zimbra Mobile enables two-way, over-the-air synchronization of mail, contacts, and calendar data between mobile devices and the Zimbra server.”

Zimbra Mobile

01.com supports Zimbra mobile, and the Blackberry sync, starting at $4.99/mo for a personal account with Zimbra mobile (Palm and Windows Mobile), providing two-way OTA sync.

1. Blog from 01.com about a comparison of the servers, here
2. Comparison table of Exchange Hosting vs. Zimbra hosting here
3. Business Week blog about the differences, here

Zimbra is a full-featured Microsoft Exchange competitor, that runs on OS X and OS X server, as well as Red Hat and other Linux variants.

Delivering mail, calendar and contact sharing and syncing to desktops and mobile devices from a server, Zimbra integrates with off-line clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Entourage, and Apple Mail, iCal and AddressBook. Both Leopard Server’s upcoming iCal Server and Zimbra’s upcoming Zimbra Collaboration Suite version 5 are CalDev compliant, posing intriguing possibilities for even more integration. Zimbra 5 also has full support for Apple’s iPhone, at no extra charge beyond standard licensing costs, with iZimbra.

We like Firefox, for all platforms, especially when used in conjunction with Zimbra, the enterprise e-mail, calendaring, contact and document sharing software. And we all know how easy it is to take screenshots on a mac. But have you ever wanted to take a screenshot of an entire webpage, especially one that scrolls beyond the size of your screen? And what about when using Firefox on a PC using WindowsXP or Linux? Well, now you can, with Pearl Crescent, a new Firefox extension. You can get Pearl Crescent here . It comes in both a free basic version, and a Pro version for $15. For independently written software, those are great prices, especially for what it can do. We know around here we are going to be recommending this often to our users.

Published here: http://www.01.com/movies.html

The iPhone is very cool, but it’s not as revolutionary as the iPod Touch. It may lack a cell phone, camera, and even Mail.app, and it’s precisely because it lacks these features, among others, that the Touch represents a leap-forward, not only a glimpse of the future, but also the future manifested, tomorrow today. Because you could buy the iPod Touch and give up your cell phone, if not yet your cell service. And if you’re like me, you may even lose weight in the bargain!

Post at 01.com’s blog:

http://blog.01.com/?p=325