Category Archives: Windows XP

Updated Live Mesh crashing on my Mac

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Rick Lobrecht

I’m really loving Live Mesh.  Until yesterday, everything just workedTM.  Unfortunately that all came to a screeching halt when Mesh on my MacBook told me I had to update because it wouldn’t connect to the network anymore.  A quick download, … Continue reading →

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Live Mesh

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I finally got Live Mesh working on my Mac, my phone, and my fileserver.  I’m waiting on a new laptop for work, so I haven’t installed there yet. I have to say  this is very cool.  At the very basic, … Continue reading →

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mesh.com

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

With the new availability of the Mac client, I’m going to try Live Mesh again.  I was able to get logged in to my account, and download the Mac client.  I’m getting an error trying to log in, but I … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Like all good geeks, I installed Google Chrome the other day.  I like the idea of Chrome (i.e. another major browser to encourage innovation) and I also like some of the major features they have announced.  Having one tab which … Continue reading →

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Sugarsync

Posted on August 24, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I finally installed Sugarsync, and it is mostly working as described.  I installed it on the MacBook and our Windows Server 2003 fileserver.  I still need to install it on my work laptop.  The Pocket PC client is next to … Continue reading →

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UI paradigms – Microsoft Office – Mac vs. Windows

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

While at my parent’s this weekend, my mother asked me about setting the font to Bold in Word 2008 for Mac.  She claims to have turned on the Formatting toolbar, but wasn’t seeing the ability to Bold her fonts.  Not … Continue reading →

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FU Microsoft

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I’ve been using FolderShare for quite a while to keep things in sync between my machines.  With the recent addition of the MacBook, I was quite happy to have FolderShare also supported there.  In the Windows world, I’ve actually been … Continue reading →

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Finally a reason for Fusion

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Along with my MacBook, I bought a copy of VMWare Fusion, knowing that someday I’d have a reason to run a Windows app, and today is the day.  Once again, its the lousy Entourage which is failing to meet my … Continue reading →

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DropBox

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

A beta invite to Dropbox showed up in my email this morning.  This is another cross-platform file sync utility.  The big difference I see with this one is that it has a specific area where your sync’d files have to … Continue reading →

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FolderShare disaster

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I’ve just had one of my FolderShare libraries totally freak out.  It basically deleted every file in the library.  I know that the files were there last night, and I think even earlier today.  Of course there’s backups, but it’s … Continue reading →

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