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By Marke Clinger, on April 21st, 2012 Over the last few months I decided to give Mozilla Thunderbird for the Mac a try. I was really excited when the interface on MacMail changed with Lion. It was cool, it was like the iPad, I liked it. However after using it to manage my 5 separate email accounts for the last 5 months . . . → Read More: Converted from MacMail to Thunderbird
By Marke Clinger, on January 1st, 2012 Updated January 1, 2012 (original – April 30, 2011)
This procedure for installing a PC R6870 Video Card into a Mac Pro works for MacOS X Lion with one change, you don’t have to load the drivers. The MacOS X Lion software includes the ATI Radeon HD 6870 required for a . . . → Read More: MSI HD 6870 Video Card – How to Install on Mac OSX
By Marke Clinger, on May 1st, 2011 My Mac Pro is an early 2008 version with 2 2.8 GHz Quad-Core CPUs. It isn’t very often I utilize my Mac to its fullest potential, but the other day I was encoding video and noticed all all 8 cores maxed out!
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon at 100%
Love to see them . . . → Read More: 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon at 100%
By Marke Clinger, on November 20th, 2010 Paulsipad.com updated his Top 10 Best iPad Apps a while back. My list is significantly different, probably because my job is quite different, so I thought I would publish my list. These apps, except numbers 6 and 10, I feel pretty passionate about. That is, I like to use them and without them, I wouldn’t . . . → Read More: Top 10 Best iPad Business Applications
By Marke Clinger, on November 12th, 2010 The lack of a good Excel compatible application is the biggest problem I have come up against when using my iPad for business. Initially Numbers didn’t even output to an Excel file (it does now) which was a show stopper for me.
None of the applications I purchased are perfect and all have things that . . . → Read More: iPad Excel Compatible Apps – Call for Input
By Marke Clinger, on August 29th, 2010 It is always a hard decision when traveling internationally on how much bandwidth to buy on the iPad international plan. It is very costly at a dollar or more per megabyte. However, for now at least, buy the smallest plan and use as much as your US plan will allow. I have the AT&T iPad . . . → Read More: iPad International Plan Uses US Minutes First
By Marke Clinger, on June 9th, 2010 This problem has been described to me as “Time Shift” by X number of hours, where X turns out to be equal to the time zone difference between the purchaser of the iPad and Cupertino. It has also been described as “my events don’t change to my new time zone when I am traveling.” I . . . → Read More: iPad Tip: Calendar Time Zone Support
By Marke Clinger, on June 4th, 2010 I recently wrote an article which described how I picked SugarSync as my primary application for sharing data. In this article I will cover more about SugarSync and how I implemented it to not only create a great way to get files on my iPad when I am traveling, but to also create a way . . . → Read More: SugarSync: Essential iPad Business App
By Marke Clinger, on June 1st, 2010 Other than multitasking and printing, file management is the biggest complaint you hear about the iPad. For me file management on the iPad was one of the biggest issues I had until I started taking full advantage of GoodReader. My goal, which I have accomplished, is to replace my laptop for business travel with the . . . → Read More: GoodReader: Essential Application for Business use of iPad
By Marke Clinger, on May 20th, 2010 In an earlier post I wrote about my integration of Toodledo with my Outlook tasks. I have never been comfortable going to a pure Web based task management system due to the amount of time I spend traveling, which equates to time not connected to the Internet. Flights are a good time to reflect on . . . → Read More: iPad Calendar and Mail Part 2
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