Jul 24, 2012 | Tech Tips
Back in the days of Entourage, one could open separate windows for Mail, Calendar & Contacts. With Outlook 2011, Microsoft has forced the use of one window with clicking on the options at the bottom left to change from Mail to Calendar to Contacts. Different even from the way Outlook for Windows allows inline folders. So what to do?
It turns out, you can open separate windows for Outlook 2011. Here’s how: While viewing Mail, instead of on Calendar, which changes the screen from Mail to Calendar, do this instead. Right-click on any other mail folder (it doesn’t matter which one). Outlook will open a contextual menu, with the top choice being ‘Open In New Window.’ With this new window open, click on Calendar (or Contacts) at the bottom. Now, you have two windows: One with Mail and the other with Calendar.
If you are on any OS since Lion (10.7), you can use Mission Control to put one or the other in another window. And, if you have a Magic Mouse, Magic Track Pad or any portable Mac, you can swipe from window to window. On Snow Leopard, you can put each Window in it’s own Spaces.
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Jul 2, 2012 | Tech Tips
You can setup contact syncing to iCloud on an older iPod Touch (2nd Generation or newer), iPhone (3G or newer) or any iPad still running at least iOS 4. Sorry, 1st Generation iPod Touch owners, the maximum iOS which can be used on these devices is iOS 3.1.3.
You need to determine the unique number which is your iCloud account number. The way I did it was to log in to iCloud on the web. Then, click on your name or picture to get your account settings page. If you don’t have a picture there, you may need to upload one. Once your picture is there, right click on it (in Safari) and choose Inspect Element. (If you don’t see the Inspect Element choice, you’ll need to go into Safari Preferences, go to the Advanced tab and make sure there is a check mark for “Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar”.) Search for contacts.icloud.com. You’ll find something like <img src=”https://pxx-contacts.icloud.com:443/nnnnnnnn/wcs/…>. The number in the nnnnnnnn position is your unique number. It may be seven, eight or nine characters. Your pxx number is right at the beginning after the https://.
On the iOS device, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account. Choose “Other” and select “Add CardDAV Account” under the Contacts section.
Enter the following information:
Server: https://pxx-contacts.icloud.com:443/nnnnnnnn/carddavhome/card/
User Name: your iCloud login name
Password: your iCloud password
Description: iCloud CardDAV (This is a suggestion only; can be whatever text is meaningful to you)
Choose “Advanced,” turn SSL On and enter 443 for the port.
Press Done twice and the information will validate with the server. If all was entered correctly the device will verify the information and connect to your contacts.
As in other areas, your iCloud contacts need to be the primary source of information. Make changes and additions to your contacts from iCloud (especially if you are still using Snow Leopard on your Mac). This should help with some of the problems seen on older operating systems and devices where duplicates might begin to be a problem.
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May 14, 2012 | Tech Tips
I was going to publish an in depth article on this, but Apple has already done so with great pics to guide you through.
If you have websites on MobileMe, which is scheduled to end June 30, 2012, you’ll want to read up on how to move your sites now. If you need more help, leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do. Look here first: .
Additionally, to make things a little bit easier, I’m linking to the how-to from GoDaddy with information on using them as a web hosting service (not affiliated with GoDaddy):
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May 12, 2012 | Tech Tips
If you’re using Leopard or Snow Leopard on your Mac (prior to Lion’s implementation of tokens) and you’ve ever needed a way to search for a couple of terms in Mail, here’s how.
You’ll want to use keywords. For example, if you and your friend, Seth, were talking about Google calendars on a couple of occasions and you wanted to find your emails from Seth with the search term Google in the message body, you’d want to use the keyword author and then search for Google. In your search bar you’d do that like this: 
You can also do more complex searches and you can use the same technique with Spotlight. Here’s a more complete list of keywords:
Keywords for Searching
| To Search for: |
Use: |
| Aliases |
kind:alias |
| Applications |
kind:application, kind:applications, kind:app |
| Audio |
kind:audio |
| Bookmarks |
kind:bookmark, kind:bookmarks |
| Browser history |
kind:history |
| Contacts |
kind:contact, kind:contacts |
| E-mail messages |
kind:email, kind:emails, kind:mail message |
| Folders |
kind:folder, kind:folders, kind:fol |
| Fonts |
kind:font, kind:fonts |
| iCal Events |
kind:event, kind:events |
| iCal To-Do Items |
kind:todo, kind:todos, kind:to do |
| Images |
kind:image, kind:images |
| JPEG files |
kind:jpeg |
| Keynote files |
kind:keynote |
| Movies |
kind:movie, kind:movies |
| MP3 files |
kind:mp3 |
| Music |
kind:music |
| Numbers documents |
kind:numbers |
| Pages documents |
kind:pages |
| PDF files |
kind:pdf, kind:pdfs |
| PowerPoint files |
kind:powerpoint |
| Preference panes |
kind:preference, kind:preferences |
| Presentations |
kind:presentation, kind:presentations |
| QuickTime files |
kind:quicktime |
| TIFF files |
kind:tiff |
| Word documents |
kind:word |
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May 12, 2012 | Tech Tips
If you’ve ever tried to thumb type on your iPad (any version) but found it incredibly cumbersome, iOS 5 introduced a way to split your keyboard to make that much easier. You can either place your thumbs in the middle and pull the keyboard apart (reverse the procedure to put it back together) or you can tap and hold on the keyboard toggle at the bottom right to select the Split Keyboard option (do it again to reverse the procedure.)
Something else that’s cool about this, where the keyboard splits, phantom keys exist which will allow you to type a ‘T’ with your right thumb or a ‘Y’ with your left. In fact any of the keyboard items at the split allow this.
Play around with this and let me know if this helped you. Enjoy!
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