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Launch Mail.
If you don't get the wizard, go to Mail, choose preferences, accounts, then press the plus symbol under the accounts pane.
Put in your name, e-mail address, and e-mail account password.
Then press continue.
Under account type, choose Exchange 2007. Your company must be running this version of Exchange. Not all companies do, so check with your friendly neighborhood systems administrator.
Give this account a name.
Then put in your mail server, again provided by whomever runs your Exchange server.
Make sure your username and password are entered correctly.
You can also choose to integrate your calendar and contacts.
Press Continue.
Then choose SSL if your Exchange system supports it. One hopes it does, and press Continue again.
Check "Take Account online," review the summary to make sure it looks correct. Then Press Create.
It may take awhile the first time, but eventually, you should start to see your Exchange e-mail in the Mail app.
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Can you dual boot OS X Leopard on a Vista machine? Yes. Daily Apps has an excellent guide to doing just that. You'll have to provide your own OS X that works on a PC though. For that, head to the OSX86 project.
Can you run Windows Vista on an Acer Aspire One? Sure. Probably only Vista Basic and it's not going to run like blazes, but if you like to try this kinda stuff, we say go for it.
You can boot from a USB thumbdrive in OS X; even boot Linux if you want. Take a look at this wiki.
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This is not what you want to hear when you call tech support and tell them your operating system is OS X.
"What's that?" or "OSN?"
But that's what happened when I called Verizon to troubleshoot connection trouble on my EVDO card. I had to say it was a Mac before they understood. Well, sort of understood.
I was having difficulty where I would make a connection and within 30 seconds the connection would be terminated.
The first person I talked to asked me to launch Verizon's VZ Access Manager software. I explained that the instructions for Mac that came with the device said to just plug in the card and I would be able to manage it from within the OS. They did not tell you to install software. So therefore I could manage the card, but I did not have VZ Access Manager. This seemed to stymie the person on the other end and I was told that they don't get a lot of Mac questions.
On my own, while the tech fumbled for an idea of what do for a Mac user, I poked around on their site during the call and found an OS X version of the Access Manager and installed it. Once I did that we were able to troubleshoot and fix the problem.
But when I got home, I was still having access trouble. So I called Verizon again and gave them the case number. The support person asked me to choose tools from the menu option in VZ Access Manager. I explained that there was no tools option. I got another response that Macs "sure are different" and that they don't get many Mac calls. This technician fumbled around trying to give me steps for the Windows version of VZ Access Manager that I couldn't implement. Eventually it was suggested that I go outside and see if it worked outside the building. I agreed I'd try and we ended the call amicably.
Strangely, after I got off the call, the card connected and worked fine thereafter.
Now I must make clear that both techs I talked to seemed intelligent and were trying to be helpful. They just acted as if they had never seen a Mac before. They had no idea what this crazy "OS X" was, and had no scripts to help them support a Mac user.
Get it together, Verizon. If you advertise, as you do, that your card works with Macs, then you need to train your support personnel to know how to use them.
What if you could run all your Windows programs inside OS X? It's very handy if you're making "the switch," or just want flexibility. Watch the video on CNET TV to see how it's done. Then read on for the details in print.
I've previously showed you how to run Windows on your Mac in Boot Camp. What we have here today is slightly different. It's called virtualization. Virtualization software actually pretends to be a computer and, in this case, it runs the whole Windows operating system as a program in OS X.
The first thing you need on the road to Windows virtualization is a legal copy of Windows XP or Windows Vista. Next, you need to download a virtualization program. Two of the most popular are VMware Fusion and Parallels. Since I shot the video, I've also been made aware of VirtualBox, an open-source virtualization machine.
Download your choice and install it in OS X.
The next step is to install Windows into the virtual machine. But, as I mentioned earlier, I already installed Windows on a Boot Camp partition on my machine. If you have done this, too, you need do nothing! Your virtual machine can run Windows off the Boot Camp partition giving you the option of booting solely into Windows if you wish.
You lose a few features if you use Boot Camp as your virtual machine. So you have to decide whether the extra trouble of Boot Camp is worth the flexibility to boot solely into Windows. For me it was. It saved my life on CNET Live a couple times.
Whether you're installing Windows as a virtual machine or running it off the Boot Camp partition, you will need to go through Windows Activation, because Windows sees the virtual machine as a whole new set of hardware.
If you've only installed Windows once, or never, activation should happen seamlessly online. But if you, like me, have played with more than one virtual machine plus Boot Camp, you may have used up your activations. Which means you may have to call Microsoft to activate.
The automated system will ask you a few questions. You don't need to lie, just answer as if you've rebuilt the computer, replacing everything but the motherboard.
Another note here for Boot Camp lovers: Make sure to install the tools provided by your virtualization software before you boot into Windows directly from Boot Camp. Otherwise you may end up in an activation loop. You may still have to activate online, but it should only happen once if at all. Also, Boot Camp or not, be prepared to reactivate Microsoft Office as well.
OK! We finally have Windows rolling on our Mac. Kind of cool but it's all trapped inside a little window. Let's set it free, shall we?
In Parallels there's something called "Coherence Mode." In VMware Fusion it's Called "Unity mode." Whichever one you're using, turn it on, and watch the magic. The Windows taskbar shows up on the bottom of your screen! I moved my OS X dock to the side so they don't compete. Programs you run from Windows show up in their own Windows just like an OS X application.
You can even cut and paste between Windows and OS X programs! Essentially, you have Windows and OS X running side by side.
A few notes, though: The Windows programs do a run a tad slower than the OS X programs. They're also limited to being in one monitor even if you have two monitors going, although the beta of the new VMware Fusion has added multiple monitor support. Also, if you're running off the Boot Camp partition, you have to shut down Windows from the Start menu before you close the virtualization program.
If you're not using Boot Camp, you can take snapshots of the system and start from the same place next time you run it. That's just the tip of the iceberg, of course, but enough to get you going. Don't forget that neither VMware Fusion nor Parallels is free. You can get free trials, but they each cost about $80 to keep.
Oh and Windows isn't the only OS you can virtualize. You can also do Linux and other OSes. And no activation issues!
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Anonymous wrote us on the CNET forums asking how you can get OS X to run on a PC. That discussion isn's allowed in the forums because of the fact that running OS X on a non-Apple computer breaks the EULA. Don't worry anonymous, I went there for you. Here's how I got OS X to run on my ThinkPad and why it's a legal mess to do so, on today's Insider Secret.
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