ENTOURAGE WITHOUT VPN

Check Your Exchange Mail Without VPN access in Entourage

The most dynamic feature in Entourage 2004 is providing you the ability to check your corporate Email being out of office, on your Mac and all this can be done without even firing up a VPN connection and tunneling into your office network. Now all you need is your Macbook while you are on the move or at your home or at any Wi-Fi zone, just follow the following steps to access your mails in 'office style':

1. Launch your browser & log into your organization's Outlook Web Access website.
2. From the web address feild, copy all the matter till the first slash, including it. (just to explain, if the web address is http://mailexchange.com/laeeq, copy http://mailexchange.com/)
3. Now launch the Entourage and go to Tools and select Account Settings.
4. Open the settings and paste the copied website address in the Server field.
5. Once done, you hould be able to send & recieving mails without using VPN.

If you want to access public folders from home, go to the Public Folders link in Outlook Web Access and copy-paste the first part of the URL (e.g. http://www.example.com/public) into the Public Folder server field on your Exchange account's Advanced tab in your Entourage.

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iPad has decreased lappy sale by 50% – Best Buy

Electronics retailers are revamping their aisles to focus on hand-held gadgets this holiday season to excite consumers who have grown weary of their traditional big-sellers: televisions and personal computers. Handhelds are changing electronics retailing. Above, a Best Buy employee in Chicago delivers iPads in April. Shoppers this Christmas can expect to see more smartphones, electronic readers and touch-screen computers in the most prominent store displays, underscoring a dramatic shift to powerful portable devices that is fast changing the face of consumer electronics retailing. The new priorities are plainly evident in the changing strategy of Best Buy Co., the nation's largest electronics retailer by revenue, which is now morphing into a mobile gadget specialist after decades of promoting the latest in big-screen televisions, desktop computers and high-fidelity stereos. Read more on Wall Street Journal

Welcome the new macOS - Mojave

Apple has released 3rd Beta verion of their macOS Mojave, so we thought to give it a try. What we found is that the product is really promising. They have improved many things that we never realized is actually a need. Instead of writing what we loved, we prefered to collect posts that include all new features. If anyone needs Mojave Beta release, please send an email to: Laeeq.Humam@hcl.com , we would be glad to share it. List of new features: https://gizmodo.com/all-the-new-features-coming-in-macos-10-14-mojave-upda-1826531489 https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/09/90-new-changes-features-in-macos-mojave https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/10-useful-new-features-hidden-in-the-macos-mojave-beta-1826603113

MAKING A FILE/FOLDER INVISIBLE

How to hide a file/folder using Terminal This is one of the greatest technique that I ever came across, I had to share my Mac in office and was curious about hiding confidential data. This was when I started exploring and finally came up with this solution. These commands are to be typed in Terminal. To make a file or folder invisible in Mac OS X Finder setfile -a V testfile.txt Here is goes, the file or folder is no longer visible via the Finder GUI, though it will be by Terminal. Your files are still there and you can find them via the command line and will show with an ls command. If you want your files and folders to be visible again, use this command: To make a file or folder visible again in Mac OS X Finder setfile -a v testfile.txt Now the file/folder will be visible again to the Finder, cool isn't it? Please Note: setfile is a command line utility included in Apple’s Developer Tools, which is a highly recommended optional install included on any Mac OS X install

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