Greg, I am currently using MS Outlook 2001 for Mac, but it has serious problems with OSX. I've lost my files and address book twice this semester, grr. Don't know why, but the tech people in the district have advised getting MS Office 2004 for Mac, which has Entourage as a more compatible email app. It also has something called Project in the WP application, but don't know much about it since I prefer using Appleworks for my wp docs & such. Worth checking out...If you know someone in JCPS, we have a district license, and it is way cheaper (<$50), but of course, you have to be using it on school machines for school work to be legit about it....Others in the group are way more knowledgeable about the technical aspects than I, so good luck with it and welcome back from the dark side! Cathy
> ---------- > From: Greg > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2005 8:56 AM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: MacGroup: Need Mac Help! [faked-from] > > Dear Fellow Mac Owners, > > I am a man who needs help. Serious help. Many, many years ago I was a > Mac nut. I set the employees in my office up with Mac IIxes. Then came Mac > IIcis. As a sign of appreciation, the I.T. group made sure I got a Mac > IIfx, the fastest, coolest machine on the planet. Out went the DOS > machines. A pile of Zenith 100s in the dumpster, a sight to invigorate the > soul. As time went by I upgraded to the Mac IIsi with its blazing speed > and compact size. Then the world changed......I got married. > > As my wife entered the picture, so did the dark side of computing. > Along with the deal came my father-in-law, the head of the I.T. department > for a major corporation. He brought with a him a gutter language known > only to the "unMac'ed." He used these four letter words like "Dell" and > "IPAQ." Her invoked the devil himself with phrases like "Windows is the > same as a Mac." Scary. > > I was able to stonewall this influence for months, even a couple > years. However, as my Mac IIsi aged and aged it became the computer that > couldn't. The massive internet downloads were just too much. It had no CD > player. It couldn't even spell DVD. I wanted one of the new PowerMacs. I > really, really wanted a new PowerMac. But the family pressures became too > much and yes, I went over to the dark side. I bought a PC. Since then I > have lived a life of turmoil, confusion and shame. > > But I was not a complete loss. It was not too late. Somewhere in the > back of my mind there was still that spark. There was still hope. Just as > I reached the edge of death, I regrouped, jumped on the internet and last > month brought myself to purchase an iMac G4, 17" screen and all. I am now > in a state of recovery, a recovering PCaholic! > > But to ensure a complete recovery, I could use some help from the Mac > community. While I am pushing to make my new iMac the center of my > computing universe, I still have all of the PC junk that I can't > immediately throw away. I need to merge some of this stuff with my Mac and > phase it out over time. But this will be a slow process. I need to know > what can be done. > > I use a few pieces of PC hardware and software that I just can't > eliminate immediately. I have a pocket PC, an HP IPAQ 1945, that I must > maintain because it is required at my office. It's a little bit more than > a Palm but it's a communist machine - it runs on a version of Windows. I > use it for appointments, telephone numbers, MSMoney to track expenditures, > MS Office applications, etc. It currently syncs with my PC at work via a > cradle and at home via Bluetooth. What I would like to do is set my Mac up > so that everything syncs via Bluetooth. Issues I see here are that 1) > Pocket PCs sync with MS Outlook. I don't believe that there is a Mac > version of MS Outlook 2) I don't think MS Money has a Mac version. The > rest of the stuff is just MS Office. Can an IPAQ be set up to sync with my > Mac? What about running Virtual PC, will my IPAQ be able to sync through > to MS Money if it is loaded via virtual PC? > > I also use MS Project religiously. I'm a manager and project work is > my thing. A hundred years ago I used to work with a program on my Macs > called MacProject. Does this still exist? Is it the best option for > project management? Does it merge with MS Project? Does ANYTHING merge > with MS Project? I think I might be back in the Virtual PC world again.... > > I need this functionality and do not want to spend a gazillion > dollars on software for the Mac at this time. I just spent a chunk by > purchasing the computer! I'll phase in new Mac stuff over time. I just > need to get the basics up and running. > > Speaking of basics and not spending a gazillion dollars, my Mac only > has 256k of RAM. Where is the best place to get a deal on more RAM? > > Your help is appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Greg > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050106/8fcf029e/attachment.html
