Ughhh! Help, my wife is getting really mad! (Windows to Mac ?s)
Hello all. First post. Old time Apple user (Apple II+, IIc, IIGS) but nothing since. Wife was a big Mac user too but the last 10 years we have been PC.
Just got a White 2Ghz 1Gb RAM MacBook C2D for her a couple days ago. She had reservations about getting a MAC even though she liked the formfactor and the fact it was Apple. After checking it out at the Apple store several times we got it.
Well, she really dislikes Entourage and loves Outlook. Outlook allowed her to sync everything from Calendar and Address Book within the app and she's used to it. Evidently the Calendar within the MacBook is not too friendly and feature-less, nothing syncs with the email program, etc. I don't want to go the Parallels, XP, Microsoft Outlook route. It's expensive and we might have well as bought a PC.
I ordered the Missing Manual Pogue book and it will be here in a couple days. I'm hoping that things will clear up. I assured her that everything probably syncs internally and Entourage has most of the features of Outlook.
Any advide before she officially blows a gasket? (Tongue in cheek...)
Thanks.
When I understand you correctly you and your wife what to use Entourage and sync it with whatever you want. I did a search at www.macupdate.com and came up with e2sync 2.8.
I never tried it and it's not free, but maybe it helps for what you get in mind.
Try to convice your wife to use Entourage and not Outlook ... I had a customer a while ago who absolute wanted to use Outlook, but after a while he thanked me for installing Entourage because in the end it is easier to use and has some nice features Outlook didn't have.
Hope this helps.
-- Hudson
MacBook CoreDuo 2GHz / G4 iBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) some Windows PCs / some iPods
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I'm getting really annoyed with the Mac.
Don't mean to offend geniune Mac fans here, but I'm just getting really annoyed with the Mac.
I purchased my Mac mini (late 2012) in May of 2013 - so it's about 4 months old. I don't have a lot of software on it, mainly the Adobe Creative Suite, and development tools (Xcode, and web development software).
The mini has this annoyance where, every so often it just freezes. It usually happens during when the screensaver is running, or when the monitor goes into standby and I try to wake it up. First the screensaver runs for 15 minutes. Sometimes it happens (it's random) that the screensaver "stalls" and the mac freezes. If it "survives" the screensaver, then after 15 minutes my monitor goes into standby mode. Sometimes when I wake up the monitor, I get the login window, I log in, and then I find that the Mac just froze.
A few days ago I've updated to 10.8.5. Now these freezes are happening more often. The mac freezes just whenever, regardless of screensaver or not. There was a time when I had ReadKit running, displaying an article. I went to the kitchen, when I came back the mini was frozen as ice. No other program was running (I mean program that I started).
Other times I had Chrome open at youtube. It was not playing a video. The browser was just "parking" at youtube's home page. Same thing. I go away, come back, the mini was frozen.
Yet just a few days ago, I had no user started application running. None. I leave the mini alone for a short while, come back, and I find the fan was running like crazy. The mac was not hot at all, but the fan went bonkers. It was loud and pumping air out for no reason.
At these times I can't do anything. Sometimes I can move the window, or move icons on the desktop, but I cannot force quit an app, neither I can start one. So things like going to the apps folder and starting terminal or activity monitor is not possible. I cannot select menu items from the Finder (or any other application) menus, so I can't restart or shut down the mac. The only thing I can do at these times is hold the power button for a few seconds to force the mac to shut down.
I'm coming from Windows. I built and upgraded my PC a few times in the past 7-8 years with newer and faster MOBOs, processors, memory, etc. I never had a bad component; I never had a blue screen; I never had my PC hang; I have never encountered any issues that would make my PC hang or froze or otherwise. I never had to troubleshoot software or hardware problems because they were/are just non existent. I'm not trying to start a war here about PCs and Macs. I'm completely natural.
But here I am with this "thing" that supposed to be so great and trouble free. I have already reinstalled the OS once during this 4 month old mac, but now it seems I have to do it again because ever since 10.8.5 things has gotten worse. This is really N-O-T what I expected from a Mac. I am just really annoyed, frustrated and everything else.
I was browsing these support forums and tried/looked at a couple of diagnostic steps, but none helped so far. I will attempt to reinstall the OS A-G-A-I-N over the weekend. If that doesn't help, then I will have to put this junk into the garbage can. (Well, figuratively speaking of course.)
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OS X 10.8.5
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Samsung S27B970 display via DisplayPort
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No other peripherialsHey thanks for the feedback woodmeister! No, I was not aware of the hardware diagnostics!
So I have eagerly followed the isntructions, but I quickly found out what I have already experienced looking at other Apple "unhelpful" documentation. When I was referring in my OP that I've looked at other resources, the problem was that those "un-support" documents were out of date and the article indicated that Apple has retired them.
Now as far as the link that you sent (and the same can be found in the Help section of OS X as well, wasn't helpful either. Why?
In the document the bullets are as follows:
If you have a new Mac (mid-2013 or later), use Apple Diagnostics, which is built into your Mac.
If your Mac has OS X v10.8.3 or earlier, use Apple Hardware Test, which is built into your Mac.
If you updated your Mac to OS X v10.8.4 or later, use the system software disc or USB flash drive that came with your Mac.
Let's start with bullet #1. As far as I know (and correct me if I'm wrong) but I'm not aware of mid-2013 Mac minis. Mine is late 2012, so I guess I don't fit into bullet #1.
Bullet #2. I have OS X 10.8.5 so it means I don't fit into that bullet either.
Bullet #3. Yes, I did update to 10.8.4 or later (using 10.8.5) but neither a software disc nor a USB flash drive came with the Mac mini late 2012 model.
So what now? Another great "support" document that is confusing and/or not helpful. Nevertheless, I did give it a try. Disconnected my ethernet cable, hold down D, and rebooted. I get a "Choose Network Connection" drop down on the gray screen where I'm supposed to choose a Wi-Fi network. Why? This has not been mentioned in the docs. My Wi-Fi is disabled because I'm connecting through cable.
So I reconnected the cable. As soon as I did that, I got the message that ... let's see... my memory is failing me... the recovery mode or reinstalling the OS will begin... or something along that line. There was NO ANY INDICATION about any hardware test or diagnostics!
See, what I mean about frustration...? -
hello i am trying to help a friend to get the update for the mac os x maverick and msg pops up saying distribution file not verified
Please read this whole message before doing anything.
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The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
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HELP! I will get back my Windows 8!
Dear HP Support here my problem:
Two weeks ago i have upgraded Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 from the Microsoft Store, but i will get many lags and i can't play games...
I tried to restore HP minimal image but i can't access Recovery Menu, when i turn on my PC i press F11 and display shows "Please wait" and BLACK SCREEN !
I haven't created Windows 8 Recovery Discs... i'm disperate please help me i can't play loved games !!!
P.S: My Notebook Model is Pavilion g6-2324sl.
Thanks you again, bye!Hi,
Get back to Windows 8 is a lenghthy task. I don't know why Microsoft's done this. You are not alone:
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57610729-285/how-to-uninstall-windows-8.1/
The following option may be a little bit late for you:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/11/10/windows-8-laptop-recovery/3476743/
Hope the following link helps:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-do-upgrade-to-windows-8-1-how-to-downgrade-back-to-windows-8/
Regards.
ps Just FYI, one of my machines crashed during Windows 8.1 upgrade and I had to rebuild it from Windows 7 (I upgraded it to Windows 8 and the Windows 8 upgrade DVD won't install w/o Windows 7). I won't touch to other two unless in few months times MS releases few "holes".
BH
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Need help. I've only had my iphone4s for over a week or so and had no problems downloading free apps and purchasing apps using my bank card. I haven't brought any apps for 2 days now and I'm trying to update one of my apps I've purchased and it keeps saying billing details wrong and notice that my security code is not there so I've put it in and then it comes up with my payment has been declined. I have no reason as to why this is happening as I have money in my account and why exactly is it saying that when I'm only updating the app. I've even tried to get a free app and again it says the same. I've tried deleted every detail and re-doing it but nothing. I don't know whether it's to do with when I synced my iPhone on my laptop 2 days ago and my laptop died so it didnt sync completely so maybe its to do with that or to do with my bank. Can someone tell me what I can do next as I'm getting rather frustrated and so close to throwing the phone across the room. Thanks. :D
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i have many many crash reports and they all seem different. yet, whenever i search the support pages for help on those crash IDs it shows 0 results. alot of people are having the same problems, and i hope we ALL can get help on this. its getting really frustrating and annoying :(
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here are the crash reports IDs from JUST today..
bp-8c7fab55-79c8-4db1-9527-4ba072111013 10/13/2011 4:51 PM
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bp-03fa57ef-580d-4f1d-8fb4-52ac72111013 10/13/2011 4:21 PM
bp-d07e0d82-df2a-41c8-a19b-bb99e2111013 10/13/2011 4:19 PM
bp-fafbd8cf-6769-4b76-8153-c17242111013 10/13/2011 4:06 PM
bp-ee9694ab-585b-4963-8b94-e46432111013 10/13/2011 3:47 PM
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What should i do if my ipod is getting really hot when i use it/
I need help my ipod keeps getting really hot when i use it
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
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http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard
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Urvergessen wrote:
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Could not find that setting anywhere.
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I'm getting really frustrated and could use some help
Hello there!
I'm not sure what happened because when I plugged in my ipod today (I have an 8g ipod touch) everything was reset to the basics in itunes. My entire library was delted. Honestly I'm not really that upset by that as I was going to change out all of my music anyways.
My problems are as follows:
I can no longer add more than 1 folder at a time.
-How can I change it to where I can add multiple folders again?
When I do add a folder it now automatically takes me out of the adding music on your ipod spot (sorry I don't know how else to describe that page) but it takes me out of there and automatically creates a playlist and starts to play the folder I just added.
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-How do I stop it from automatically playing the songs/folders I add?
-How do I stop it from taking me out of the ipod page and into the playlists page?
My ipod NEVER used to do any of this before so I'm really not sure why all of that changed and why I can't change it back.
My audiobooks tab is gone.
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I've spent the last couple of hours sifting through manuals, let me tell you 138 pages is a lot to go through, forums and google and a lot of technical jargon and acronyms. All in all, I'm having a heck of a time finding exactly what I need to help me out and I admit I am starting to get really frustrated.
The other day it was so easy, add a couple of folders to the library, select them hit apply and VOILA all was golden. Today, not so much.I'm still having troubles getting the audio books to appear.
Heres what im selecting.
and then the books tab is still not appearing.
and then as far as adding folders here is what I am doing.
this was how i had it before. it gives me mroe control to choose what i want to add.
that is where i go to add the folder, like i did before.
selecting the folder like normal.
then this box immediatly pops up. not allowing me the option to select and apply any music i may have added.
the music starts playing and it takes me to the playlist page.
but when i click on the ipod icon and go back into this area. the folder is there.
all the steps ive just shown you is how i have ALWAYS done this ever since i got my ipod. Ive never had any of these weird problems utnil today. -
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Hi there,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1926
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