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HowTo: Resize Parallels Virtual Hard Disk

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:04 +0000

If you’re using Parallels virtualization tools to host an OS X virtual machine, you could find you cannot compress the virtual hard disk to reclaim unused space. We ran across the issue a few weeks ago and were rather surprised, because Parallels has a “Compress” feature that is supposed to do exactly that with your [...]

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HowTo: Best Workaround for Exchange “Send As” and iPhone

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:43:09 +0000

The iPhone is one of the best options for corporate users that need mobile email. However, people that perform several roles within one company usually need to send email using one of several “alias” addresses, such as sales@company.com and fred@company.com, depending on the role they are working at that time. Unfortunately the iPhone makes sending [...]

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Connecting Entourage 2008 to Exchange 2007

admin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:33:26 +0000

If you’re trying to get Entourage 2008 for the Mac to work with a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server there’s a few things you need to know. First, according to Microsoft, you need to install Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 and Rollup 4. This seems to be correct. Second, you need to go to your favorite [...]

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Connecting Mac Mail to Exchange 2007

admin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:39:02 +0000

Connecting a Mac running OS X Snow Leopard to a server running Microsoft Exchange 2007 is not quite as simple as it should be. We use Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, which comes with Exchange 2007. In our experience, the IMAP and SMTP protocols worked fine with any mail client we could find. But making [...]

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HowTo: Ubuntu virtual mail host pt. 3

admin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:28:43 +0000

Following on from part 2 of this guide: Install the maildirmake utility, which is part of the maildrop package. apt-get install maildrop Create a group for the virtual mail server, then create a user and add the user to the group: groupadd vmail useradd -g vmail vmail Take a look in your /etc/group file and [...]

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MacBook Pro Video Performance Test

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:53:34 +0000

Test results from The Hypervisor Lab show the new MacBook Pro, launched last week, is almost twice as fast running common video processing software than it predecessor. In our tests we converted a normal MPEG2 video stream from DVD format to H.264 MP4 using a MacBook Pro fitted with a 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo – [...]

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Lab Test: New MacBook Pro 42% Faster

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:21:56 +0000

Benchmark test results by The Hypervisor indicate the new MacBook Pro, launched yesterday, is over 40% faster than the previous comparable model. We tested the new entry-level MacBok Pro fitted with a 2.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor and compared the results with the previous entry-level MacBook Pro, which was fitted with a 2.4GHz Intel [...]

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Howto: Use Outlook in Offline mode

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:52:16 +0000

People using a laptop often want to download all their email to their laptop before starting a journey so they can work with their email without a connection to the Internet. Microsoft Outlook’s “Offline” mode allows Outlook to be used without an Internet connection, but it doesn’t automatically download all your email to your laptop [...]

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Facebook Apps Time Out

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:58:49 +0000

Facebook yesterday issued a fix affecting the times and dates of events created by third party Facebook apps. The fix means app developers can now specify times for events either in their local time zone or in PST (Pacific Standard Time). Drew Hoskins, a developer at Facebook, said on a Facebook developer blog, “If you [...]

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HowTo: Synchronize iPhone with Facebook Events

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:53:21 +0000

It’s surprisingly easy to get your Facebook Events to appear in your iPhone Calendar, and much the same method works for other iCAL compatible applications such as Microsoft Outlook. Step 1: Go to you Facebook page and click on “Events” (Green Circle) Go to the bottom of your Events list and click on “Export Events” [...]

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