Music is a critical for situations where emotion is peaking—action movies, a night on the town, romantic encounters and even conversations with co-workers or friends who may be a little overly dramatic sometimes. Yesterday morning I started replying to a co-worker's message. In it I found myself being a little overly dramatic myself. (Not unjustly.) "Well, OK," I said. … Continue reading Save up to $3.96 on tiny violin apps for iPhone
Responses needed: Outlook for Mac Exchange Setup Script Survey
Mac Admins, if you're currently using any version of my Outlook for Mac Exchange Setup Script, I need your responses. The script I'm referencing is available at these two locations: Version 4.0.1 - http://www.officeformachelp.com/outlook/exchange/setup-script/ Version 4.5.2 - https://github.com/talkingmoose/Outlook-Exchange-Setup Some planned changes in Outlook for Mac will break the automatic setup portion of the script and I … Continue reading Responses needed: Outlook for Mac Exchange Setup Script Survey
Watching good administrators go bad
Training is one of my favorite responsibilities as a consultant with 318. This past summer I've trained a few dozen new and experienced Mac administrators as part of their Casper JumpStarts but while most are very good at their jobs, practically all of them have briefly succumbed to the dark side during their training. Movie wisdom I … Continue reading Watching good administrators go bad
PSU MacAdmins posts conference videos for 2014
Today, all those folks who couldn't attend this year's PSU MacAdmins Conference get to attend virtually! And all those folks who did get to attend now get to attend every session. The fine folks at Penn State University have posted links to most videos from the conference with a few yet to come in their … Continue reading PSU MacAdmins posts conference videos for 2014
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Threw this together based on a conversation with a former boss...
Posting my PSU MacAdmins Conference presentation
Update (July 13): Forgot to include a link to download the plists for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. These are the same files I used in my demonstration. From the home office in Saint Paul, Minnesota, I'm posting my PSU MacAdmins Conference slides here for folks reviewing after my presentation in State College, PA, and for folks who weren't … Continue reading Posting my PSU MacAdmins Conference presentation
Attending my first PSU MacAdmins Conference
Super excited to be flying out to Penn State tomorrow and attending my first PSU MacAdmins Conference! It's only five years old but has become one of the five major conferences for Mac administrators in the world as well as the only major east coast conference for those who support OS X and iOS. I get to present this year and … Continue reading Attending my first PSU MacAdmins Conference
Playing with my potty while on the iPhone
In the beginning was the "Have a nice day" guy. He was put on buttons, coffee mugs, bumper stickers and T-shirts. Then one day, someone didn't have a nice day. And he was put on even more buttons, coffee mugs, bumper stickers and T-shirts. Along came the computer and the smilie was born—the "Have a nice day" … Continue reading Playing with my potty while on the iPhone
Even more rubber chickens and purple boxes
Strange, happy coincidence—I met the person responsible for the rubber chickens in the purple Wam!Net boxes! Let's start with the sequence of events: I saw the tiny rubber chicken about 15 years ago when a Wam!Net technician let me peek inside our big purple box. Wam!Net was a Minneapolis-based company. A few years later I moved … Continue reading Even more rubber chickens and purple boxes
Rubber chickens and purple boxes
Rubber chickens have their place in technology. During my first gig as an administrator in the mid 1990s, we brought in Wam!Net, a Minneapolis-based company, to link our office to dozens of remote printing facilities across the U.S. This was before Internet connectivity and FTP were common-place technologies in business. With as $12,000 annual contract, Wam!Net … Continue reading Rubber chickens and purple boxes
Remember the Human 