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Apple Mail.app Exchange sync problems and solution

At our company we have decided to relocate our mailserver to an hosted Exchange 2010. We’ve been using Zimbra for the past three years, but we feel that development of Zimbra isn’t moving into the direction of better OSX support (we are all using MacBook Pro’s) but is more focussed on enhancing their webclient and [...]

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Parallels Explorer is gone, Parallels Mounter is the new kid

It’s a tool I rarely use, Parallels Explorer. It enables you to browse a Virtual Machine Disk from OSX without booting the whole Virtual Machine. Today I needed the tool, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Tried Google and searching the Parallels Support Forums, but nowhere any explanation where the Parallels Explorer could be found. [...]

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Citrix SA Client for Mac OSX

Some time ago for a specific client I needed to connect to some protected infrastructure using some proprietary Citrix client. The firewall protecting the infrastructure only allowed access via VPN technology as implemented in the Citrix SA Client. At the time I couldn’t find a Mac OSX client, and the Administrator of the firewall protected [...]

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Snow Leopard with Ruby 1.9 and Rails 2.3.5

I’m working my way through “Agile Web Development with Rails – Third Edition” and the latest version of the PickAxe “Programming Ruby – Third Edition” books of the Pragmatic Programmers. As Snow Leopard is my OS I need to update the default shipped Ruby and Rails versions to get to Ruby 1.9 and Rails on [...]

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Great Visual Diff/Merge tool for OSX

Back when my primary dev-environment was Microsoft I would use the open-source tool WinMerge for all my Diff/Merge needs. Great tool, good performance, does the job. Now that I’ve switched to the Mac I had to find a new visual Diff/Merge tool, and I want it cheap, or better free Searches in the past didn’t [...]

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