If you are running Office v.X for OS X, it comes with a program called Entourage. Entourage is sort-of half-way between Outlook Express and Outlook. It has a comparable email application, but also includes a calendar and address book for a full Personal Information Manager, or PIM. Your Outlook Express files should be easily importable into Entourage.
If you are not using Office v.X on your OS X system, then you will most likely use the Mail application included with OS X. I use that almost exclusively on my OS X laptop and about 50-50 on my OS X desktop. (Our company uses QuickMail Pro for corporate emails, so I use both programs at the office.) I have not tried importing from Outlook to Mail, so someone else will need to address that. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? As to the Macintosh Specialist, I've been working professionally with Macs since 1997. Currently, I am working for a large organ procurement organization and tissue bank in Virginia, which happens to be predominantly Mac based. My assistant and I support about 275 Mac workstations, 20 or so Mac servers, one Red Hat Linux server and the network on which they run. Officially, I'm a Tech II, but the title was originally Macintosh Specialist, so that's what I've kept... I just liked the sound of it more. :-) In addition, we have tech supporting about 40-50 Windows systems, a small help desk staff, a secretary, a network manager, a telecom manager and a half dozen programmers or so working in a combination of MSSQL, Oracle and FileMaker Pro. Bryan C. Forrest Macintosh Specialist LifeNet http://www.lifenet.org On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 10:15 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >> That would be it... iTunes pulls the CD name, track names, etc. from >> an >> online database, not from the CD itself. If there's no internet >> connection, you won't get any of that information. >> >> It's amazing how technology changes the way we look at things. A few >> years ago, the first thing I would have considered was a lack of >> connection to the internet. Now, with the increasing availability of >> high-speed internet services, I just assumed the computer was already >> connected and went right on to troubleshooting the network. >> >> Have a great night... >> >> Bryan >> > Thanks for your help, Brian. To me this is all magic, but I have > progressed > enough to add things up in my mind and when you mentioned database, I > thought that might be it. My laptop is on broadband and I could switch > by > changing cords, but it is only a few more days and I shall have this > great > network -- two computers, one user!!! And the airport will allow me to > really do laptopping. - Now I am wondering about my Outlook Express > which > does not support OSX. Is it possible to use the OSX mailprogram with > Insight > or must I run classic to obtain my mail. or physically switch to 9? I > want > to get as many things squared away ahead of time as possible. So my > questions will be plentiful this coming week. And BTW, what does a Mac > Specialist do, if I may ask? > > Marta > >> >> On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >> >>>> Hi Marta. Check your Sharing System Preferences and make sure your >>>> Firewall isn't on. It might be blocking requests to the CDDB (CD >>>> Database) website. I've found that I have to punch a hole >>>> temporarily >>>> in our firewall at work if I want to access the CDDB. >>>> >>>> Bryan C. Forrest >>>> Macintosh Specialist >>>> LifeNet >>>> http://www.lifenet.org >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Marta Edie wrote: >>>> >>> >>> Hi Brian, might it be that I am not connected to the Internet with >>> this new >>> machine? I am, waiting for me airport connection, so I won't have to >>> switch >>> cables from one to the other machine. I just wanted to tryy out the >>> sound >>> and inserted a disk which played, imported everything fine, only did >>> not >>> give the titles of the songs nor the name of the artist. Maybe I >>> should wait >>> until my set-up is complete next Friday. Marta >>>>> Hi, you all, >>>>> here is my question. On my powerbook G4 I am running OS9. When I >>>>> import a >>>>> CD, it gives me the artist and the names of the songs. On my new >>>>> iMac >>>>> 17 >>>>> inch) on which I run OSX, it only imports the track numbers, >>>>> neither >>>>> the >>>>> artist nor the name of the album. I looked at preferences, but no >>>>> help >>>>> there. What gives? >>>>> Marta >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>>> | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>> | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
