A lot is written about this. I’ve found that it can be extremely simple. This is how to transfer your emails, including attachments and your folder structure from Outlook on your PC to Mail on your Mac. On the PC install Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0, don’t worry it’s free. During Thunderbird setup, choose to import your Outlook mail. When done, close Thunderbird; there’s no need to configure an email account. Next step is to find the folder where your mails are stored on the PC. This might be a little difficult… The following works on WinXP, Vista and Windows 7 will work along the same line.Read More →

At our home we have a number of PC’s and just one printer. Two weeks ago I finally replaced our ‘main’ PC with a Mac; a Mac Mini. Being a Unix man since I could read and type 2 letter commands on a terminal this feels great. At last a real desktop system running Unix… Do you have a problem with sharing iTunes music across multiple users?? Just ‘chmod’ the offending directory properly and off you go… Now back to this printer I’ve got. It’s a HP C3180 and directly connected to the Mac Mini. OSX 10.6 installed the proper driver automagically and all worksRead More →