Category: 742: Entourage ’04 to Outlook ’11, Outlook Express Migration, RotW: MacBook Sleep LED, Hulu vs. Parent

A kernel panic is what Mac OS X does when it encounters an error from which it cannot safely recover. The kernel, which is the essentially the core part of the operating system, shuts itself down to prevent data loss and/or corruption. The outward result is the a screen you may have seen that tells…

A first-generation MacBook came in the other day because the sleep indicator light wasn’t working. This is actually a tricky one to diagnose because so many components are involved in making that little light work. The light itself is powered by the SATA cable, which also powers both the hard drive and shuttles data to…

Small Dog regularly provides PC to Mac data transfers, and even provides free basic data transfers when you buy a new computer. There are many tools that can be used to perform PC to Mac transfers, one of which is called Outlook2Mac. It’s developed by a company called Little Machines, and is in constant use…

A few weeks ago, I updated a large office to Office 2011. They had been using Office 2004 but found it had issues after their Exchange server was upgraded to 2008. They initially purchased one license for Office 2011 and used it on a test machine. They were pleased with the performance of Outlook with…

Happy Tuesday, After about eight weeks apart, I drove a few hundred miles to pick up Owen. He likes to “sing” when he’s very excited, and he jumped on me and sang for about 10 minutes when I walked in the door. He’s at my feet right now in my office, and we’re both very…