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Office 2008 on syncing Entourage and cleaning up duplicated events

Entourage 2008 allows you to turn on syncing. With this feature your contacts, calendar events and notes will sync with the same repository used by the System Address Book, iCal, and then iSync, iTunes and .Mac syncing.

The problem with this, very useful feature, is that it does not work correctly and in most of the times generates duplicates of your address book. I mean there are not only copies of your address entries, but there will be a couple of duplicates. Some reported that their address book, consisting of 400 addresses, grew to 30000 entries!

In this case, the best is to disable this functionality for now until the Mac Unit of Microsoft brings us a fix. For those with duplicates you can find a solution right here.

(reposting a post from Cortig.net) Jolly Roger posted a very useful script on microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage. The script finds and deletes duplicated events in the calendar (not discriminating what calendar they are from). The script is written for Entourage in English and you can find it on his site. You can install this script in your Entourage Script folder.

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Reasons why people don’t switch to a Mac

This is a well written post about some of the reasons why Windows users don’t switch to the Mac. The post if coming from a user that has been a die hard Windows user. In short the reasons are:

  • Ignorance
  • The Office
  • Hardware
  • Price
  • Lies
  • Windows Bashing
  • Vista
  • Mac Users

You really have to go and read the post to see the sense behind the reasons, but it is a good overview how people react on others and how people can get worked up on companies and “believes”.

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10 things you can do with your Mac and VMWare

The other day our favorite virtual appliance company VMWare posted a post on their Blog about “The 10 things you can do with VMWare Fusion and your Mac“.

I like the arguments of “Go shopping for some appliances to match your pretty Mac” and “Frag some baddies” quite a lot :-)

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VMWare Fusion is available

VMware released the final 1.0 version of VMware Fusion today. Fusion is a virtualization software which allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows, Linux or other PC operating systems.

We have been a convert of Parallels Desktop and we are very happy with Fusion. Much faster, feels snappier and it opens up the whole VMWare application market to the Mac world.

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