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User login Username: * Password: * Request new password Navigation Prepped for Anything Recent posts Links Recent blog posts iPod touch: It Doesn't Touch the Mail? Zune Phone Charlottesville iPhone Launch Four Hundred Feet from an iPhone THAT's the "One More Thing"? iRack Bad Alert Dialog Design by Adobe Roughly Drafted on Exchange vs. OS X Server Not Everything Can be Solved with the Right Apple Product Alltel's Answer to the iPhone? more Technorati Syndicate	What is Different Computers? Submitted by Mike Dawson on Tue, 07/18/2006 - 3:27pm. do you need help? services What we do Set up and Installation So you just bought a Macintosh. Or 50 Macintoshes. Call us for help getting your new computer zooming, or to get those 50 computers up and on a network. Save yourself the hassles of configuring email and web browsers while gaining the benefits from computers set up the way they should be. Purchasing Assistance Can't decide between a MacBook Pro and an MacBook? Curious if you should buy now or in two weeks? Are you wondering how to get the best deal? Call Different Computers for a consultation. Training Tired of only using a little bit of your computer? We provide personalized training on how to become a Macintosh "power user." Troubleshooting Trouble getting your new MacBook logged into the Windows server on your network? We can show you how to do it. Network Design The cable company won't tell you how to get your three home Macs on a network. We can. We'll show you how to get everyone on the internet, how to get everyone backed up, and how to access your home Mac when you're not at home. If your business still relies on modems to connect to the rest of the world, call us to untangle the confusing world of DSL, cable modems, ISDN and other dedicated internet access. Web site Consultation It's easy to build your own Web site-and it's easy to build it wrong, or with the wrong tools. Learn some tips and tricks to building good-looking, fast Web sites. Backup Strategy Would it ruin your day if all your data disappeared? Do you have a copy of all your latest emails, work records, homework, PhotoShop files? If you don't, you need a backup strategy. We can show you how. Contact us at mdawson@differentcomputers.com iPod touch: It Doesn't Touch the Mail? Tech Rant Why in the world would the new, otherwise super-cool-give-me-one-now iPod Touch not include the same Mail application that comes on the iPhone? Can anyone explain a business reason for this? I can't imagine there's a technical reason, since Mail already works on the iPhone. Sure, an 8 GB iPod touch might not be the best thing for syncing two or three big email accounts, but default download preferences for IMAP accounts could fix that issue. So I can only think of a business issue, something that I'm no analyst of. All the lack of Mail on the touch does is drive everyone to their various webmail gateways, which does fix the problem of storing mail on the touch, but I still don't see why. Apple has nothing to gain by that, since dot Mac mail isn't advertising supported. Until Yahoo, gmail and the other big webmail providers have a good versions of their interface for iPhone and touch, the user experience for touch users will be terrible. » Mike Dawson's blog Read more Zune Phone Tech Rant Zune Hack Technorati Tags: Zune » Mike Dawson's blog Is Drupal cool? Submitted by Mike Dawson on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 11:59am. Yes 0% (0 votes) No 0% (0 votes) Total votes: 0 Charlottesville iPhone Launch Hardware Rant » Mike Dawson's blog Read more Four Hundred Feet from an iPhone Tech Rant While I have very mixed feelings about AT&T ("Your world. Delivered. to the NSA.) still the lure of the iPhone is very very strong. I'm free and clear on my current cell service through Alltel. I even held off on refreshing to new phones to avoid a recommitment to a new year-long plan, just to be free to switch to an iPhone if it looked as good as I thought it would. With the announcement of AT&T's "affordable" (that is, not horrifyingly expensive) monthly plans, I'm ready to buy. Except for this. I can taste the disappointment. Even my wife has said "those iPhones sure look cool." Come on, AT&T, I'm not that far out in the country. Technorati Tags: Alltel, Apple, iPhone, Tech » Mike Dawson's blog THAT's the "One More Thing"? Tech Rant I'm as big an Apple fan boy as anyone. Well, bigger, actually, But Safari on Windows is the lamest "One More Thing" from a keynote ever. » Mike Dawson's blog iRack Not quite as sharp as the "iRaq. 10,000 volts in your pocket. Guilty or Innocent" posters from NYC several years ago, but definitely funnier than MadTV's parody of the iPhone launch a few months ago. » Mike Dawson's blog Bad Alert Dialog Design by Adobe Tech Rant Check this image out. It came up on my screen this afternoon. Now, what if I didn't want to restart the download? And no, there wasn't a "quit" option in the menu bar, either. Bad, bad design. Technorati Tags: Macintosh, Tech » Mike Dawson's blog Roughly Drafted on Exchange vs. OS X Server Roughly Drafted does some great tech analysis. In this article, they share some fascinating stuff I didn't know. You should read the whole article, especially if you're considering rolling out an Exchange server in an enterprise environment. One excerpt: » Mike Dawson's blog Read more 12 3next ›last »
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