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Mega Monday Updates
r0d3nt writes "Microsoft has released their promised 10.1.4 update to office. With it comes support for Exchange via Entourage. Get the update , and read about the system requirements."
RottenApple writes "The latest iPod EU firmware update has been seen floating on the Gnutella and BitTorrent Networks. A working hack is indicated by the Time Zone appearing as US Pacific after running the updater."
An anonymous reader writes "TheLittleAppFactory is pleased to today announce the latest version of our iPod Manager for Mac OS X, iPodRip 1.5, which boasts many new features, such as the ability to play songs right from your iPod's hard drive and playlist support, as well as a slick new interface, faster importing and improved iTunes integration." It costs $7.
You can already play the songs on your iPod right in iTunes. Just turn auto-syncing off.
Vonal Declosion
No known Mac mail client can make use of the features of the Exchange server, except a buggy old Outlook that doesn't render html, graphics, or support calendar and scheduling events -- and only runs in classic.
While it's not realy propellorhead stuff, it's a major and much-anticipated upgrade for some of us End Users. And it took /. to let me know it's available, even though I've been sittin on pins & needles for it.
One less application to run in Classic!
And you, madam, are very ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.
Actually it seems that the new Exchange support for Entourage is pretty weak. Seems LDAP, IMAP et al needs to be turned on on the exchange server for it to work. This was a work around for previous incarnations of Entourage, so it's a pretty lame update.
I'm sure more folks will be able to articulate this better in further posts.
I for one, am totally disheartened by it.
just a heads up.
Four weeks, Twenty papers, that's two dollars
Yes, it's a generic troll message posted to every Apple story, but MP3s on a 604e isn't hard at all.
MacAmp wasn't TOO terrible, and SoundJam runs in 9. I think Audion does, too.
Those old Power Macs don't make bad MP3/stereo systems if you've an A/V card for it, and they're fairly cheap at thrift stores and the like. (A place up the street from me has a 9600 with a couple of HDs for $150, keyboard and mouse included. Not terrible at all. It's an MP machine, and I think (I THINK) YDL can utilize the extra CPU, so it's definitely worth $150.)
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
but when will we have pst import and pocket pc synch?
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
...long overdue, and not as full-featured as its Windows counterpart. In fact, it's pretty half-assed.
.PST files. Just sets up an IMAP account for mail and LDAP for the Exchange address list, which is USELESS if you have an IT Deprtment full of Mac-hating tightasses who won't turn on IMAP or anything other than the bare minimum services that Windows PCs need to use Outlook. I think it even needs SMTP turned on to send mail out.
Slow as dirt. No evident support for
We waited a year for THIS???
*This was posted to MacSlash earlier today, but the anti-Windows vitriol contained within certainly belongs on here.
Man, pudge, you're killing me smalls. Do us a favor and don't use the headline "Mega Monday Updates" when we are waiting impatiently for the long overdue Powerbook updates. I nearly spilled my soda on my keyboard as I frantically rushed to load apple.com after seeing this headline in my Slashbox.
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The Exchange connector, frankly, sucks. You made us wait a year for stinkin' IMAP and LDAP connectivity? SMTP required to send mail? Come on! I service many clients whose internal IT departments would laugh me out of their offices if I requested they turn on SMTP and IMAP on their Exchange server. The Exchange component of Entourage needs to work *exactly* like the Windows version of Outlook, or at least as well as Outlook 2001 for OS 9.x did.
Are you kidding? Your box has PCI slots, right? just put an Adaptec FierWire card in there and you're all set (with a modern Mac OS, classic or X). As for playing MP3s, you've got the CPU power to decode at LEAST 15 MP3 streams at once! My 25MHz 68040 Quadra can play an MP3 (though the software player for it has long passed into oblivion), I'm sure your 300MHz machine can.
Most likely your system is in horrible shape, try formatting it and loading Mac OS 9.2.2 from scratch. Drop some more RAM in it (CHEAP!). Turn virtual memory off in the Memory control panel, and boost the disk cache to 16MB. Upgrade to the latest QuickTime Pro and enjoy your nice system!
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
The software I used on the Quadra was some hacked-together thing that was really a one-off deal. I think it was designed for the sole purpose of proving that an '040 mac could play an MP3. I remember the mouse not really getting more than 2 frames/second when it was playing. I had it briefly but lost track of it. Rumors on the linux-m68k lists also hint that someone wrote one in assembler for the amiga, but it too was only a proof-of-concept.
The '040 was great in it's day though, quite a wonderful series of systems to work with. My 660av is still kicking, I take it out every now-and-then when Debian or NetBSD has a major update. It runs well with Mac OS 8.1 and Photoshop 3.0, which is a wonderful app for simple graphics editing. It also plays SimCity 2000, A10 Attack!, and A-Train as well as it ever has.
I'm thinking of trying to get Gentoo bootstrapped on the thing to see what kind of speed I can get out of it when I compile the whole system for the '040, I bet it'll be cute.
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
Well, Microsoft really messed up BIG TIME.
Instead of delivering a true replacement to Outlook 2001 for Mac OS X all we got was the same old thing refined.
Just how many Exchange IT people are going to enable SMTP, IMAP and Webmail for Mac users? Why didn't MS make Entourage a true MAPI client like they promised back in February?
Looks like some of us are still stuck with Outlook 2001 running Classic...
Mabe we can convince XIMIAN to port Evolution over to Mac OS X and Quartz.....
Installed the update... Word would no longer run... I'm running OS X 10.2.6... All other Office apps were OK... Reinstalling Word did not help... consistently received message "Microsoft Word Unexpectedly Quit"... Tried lots of stuff including deleting Office with Microsoft's Remove Office utility and reinstalling without success... finally removed all Microsoft Office references on my machine and reinstalled Office and 10.1.2 update which restored Word.... A major pain... If you really don't need the 10.1.4 upgrade, you might consider not installing it...