Client-side requirements for Entourage 2004:

• Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
• Entourage 2004 for Mac (available as part of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac)

Server-side requirements:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 (with Service Pack 2) or later must be installed. This is required for WebDAV support.
• Outlook Web Access must be installed and active.
• The following protocols must be enabled: WebDAV (used by Outlook Web Access and Entourage 2004) and LDAP.

Set up and use the client:

1. If you have choosen Entourage 2004 as your email exchange client, and the preceding requirements are met, then you must configure an Exchange account in Entourage.

2. Ensure that the computer is connected to a network that has access to the Exchange server.

3. To set up an Exchange account with default settings, use the Account Setup Assistant. The Assistant uses the account ID, password, and domain that you provide to automatically detect the correct settings for an account. The Assistant uses the DNS servers configured in the client Network System Preferences to locate the Active Directory global catalog server authoritative for the domain, and sends an LDAP query using the account ID and password to authenticate the user. In addition to receiving Exchange mail, all Contacts and Calendar items are synchronized with the Exchange server. If a user later decides to exclude some of his or her contacts or Calendar items from synchronization, he or she will be able to do so.

To set up the client account:

1. In Entourage, on the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. Click the Exchange tab, and then click New. (If you see the New Account dialog box, click the Assist Me button.)
3. Follow the instructions in the Account Setup Assistant.
4. To set up your account without the Assistant, click Configure account manually.

Notes:

• If you want to specify synchronization settings while you are setting up your account, you can configure the account manually. You can also configure the account manually after the Assistant has attempted automatic configuration.
• If you create more than one Exchange server account, by default all additional accounts will not synchronize Contacts and Calendar items with the Exchange server. To set up additional accounts that synchronize these items, configure the account manually.

Entourage 2004 offers the best option for Exchange users who are using a Mac with OS X. This Exchange e-mail client provides customers with comprehensive Exchange functionality, including robust e-mail, group calendaring, and support for public folders and delegation in a corporate Mac environment.

Limitations:
Possible drawbacks to this solution may include the following:

• Entourage 2004 provides a solution for e-mail, group calendaring, scheduling, Global Address Book, and delegation only. Certain advanced Exchange features such as voting, shared tasks, shared notes, and server-side rules, are not accessible.
• Entourage 2004 does not provide full public folder or delegation support.

more info in http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/entourage2004.aspx?pid=entourage2004

The OpenOffice.org Mac Porting team are proud to announce the first development snapshot of the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X, with note "All snapshots until we release the a beta product should not be used for production work, as the software may crash and may destroy your data. A backup of all documents used in OpenOffice.org Aqua is recommended."
 

This Project aims to port OpenOffice.org to run on Mac OS X natively without X11. OpenOffice.org Aqua requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
 

 You can find more info in: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html

This is an alpha test version so that developers and users can find out what works and not, and make comments on how to improve it.

There are a number of things that do not work in this version including, but not limited to:

• You cannot print
• PDF export does not properly work as thetext won’t show on the page right
• Starting OpenOffice.org from a shared folder does not work
• Copy and paste does not fully work
• OpenOffice.org will crash after quitting
• Some text is not drawn in places like Impress
• Impress will not recognise multiple monitors

More development snapshots will be coming soon. The X11 version will continue to be tested and distributed until further notice.

Command Line Text To Speech Open up the terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and type:

say MacTips.org Rocks! 

As you can see this is an extremely easy way to convert text to speech.
You can also have the computer say something after completing a command to notify you when the command has been completed.
For example:

ls *.jpg; say finished listing jpeg images

You can also speak the contents of a file by using the -f switch:

say -f text_file

You can also specify different voices by using the -v switch:

say -v Ralph Hi, my name is Ralph

There’s a whole list of available voices in the Text to Speech preferences (System Preferences -> Speech -> Text to Speech -> System Voice).

Here’s a short but useful iPhoto tip for your Thursday reading enjoyment. As you’re probably aware, there’s a Play button on the iPhoto toolbar. Click it, and the Slideshow dialog appears; set your preferred options and music then click Play, and you’ll enjoy a slideshow of your currently-selected iPhoto images.

But what if you don’t want to change the settings, and would rather just start the slideshow as quickly as possible? To do that, just hold the Option key before you press the Play button in the toolbar. Presto—an instant slideshow using your last-saved slideshow settings.

Data Base Administration by using Graphical User Interface base supporting application, is really easier and more efficient, compared with using console application from the Database its self just like SQL*Plus for Managing Oracle. Let say TOAD for Oracle, MySql Front, or SQLServer Tools that mostly must be run under Windows Operating System.

 

What about when we are working with Corporate Applications that use more then one Data Base Server and when we are not only working with Windows but also working with Linux or Mac OS X System? The problem would be…  we must install more that one client tools to manage them all, according to the number of Data Base Server Provider that we use. We must install Toad for Oracle Data Base, which is a commercial one, MySql Front or PhpMyAdmin for MySql, and we cannot use an alternative Operating System in managing our SQLServer except Windows, event if there is a such tool that can be run under Linux or Mac OS X, the quality and support will not as good as the tools, running under Windows machine.

Initially, when I worked with Mac OS X in my notebook, I couldn’t find a good tool, event just a tool to manage my Oracle, as good as Toad. May be there are a lot of good, free and open source tools to manage MySql out there, that can be run in Mac OS Operating System, but not much for Oracle and SQLServer.

Then I tried to explore more, and finally I found a tool that can combine Oracle, MySql and SQLServer client tools as one. It is an OpenSource and FreeWare tool from Oracle named SQLDeveloper. SQLDeveloper is a database administration and query tool that provides a single consistent interface for various databases. Visually navigate through your database structure, create and execute SQL queries and scripts the easy way. Or reverse engineer complete data models with the integrated diagram editor. You can also run any number of provided reports, as well as create and save your own. SQLDeveloper enhances productivity and simplifies your database development tasks.

 

Your quest has ended. Why use a lot of different software tools to get access to your favorite databases? Use a cross database tool on any platform running Java with one front-end.

 

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