The IvanExpert Mac Blog

Step by step instructions for backing up the Entourage email database on your Mac.

Instructions on how to set your own keyboard shortcuts on the Mac, for any application.

Rebecca Kraemer wrote a really great post at Small Dog’s Apple blog called Backup of your Backup, on why it’s important to back up your backup. (This was part 1 of a 3-part backup article.) It’s not a situation that occurs too often, but it can happen: Your computer hard drive and your backup drive [...]

The less you need to grab for your mouse while at the Mac, the faster you can get stuff done. I use lots of key commands, also known as keyboard shortcuts, which replace the need for going to the dropdown menus using the mouse. Increase your productivity by learning these keyboard shortcuts. Note: The Command [...]

It’s that time of year, when everybody sends out cards to friends and family. Or in our case, we send out cards to a select list of clients and colleagues. We use Mail Merge to do it. If you have your address book in Entourage, it’s easy to create a mailing list and format it [...]

A number of our clients have moved to Snow Leopard, and for the most part they are finding the transition smooth except for one thing: PRINTING. The old printer drivers no longer work under Snow Leopard. Furthermore, they don’t know where to go to get new drivers, nor do they know how to download and [...]

For Mac users, certain items should always be compressed before they get attached to an email and sent off: Large attachments Folders (if you want to send an entire folder of documents attached to one email) Unusual file types (not MP3, PDF, JPG, Excel, or Word–these are usually okay), as they often get corrupted in transit [...]

If you’re on the Mac, and using Apple Address Book for your contacts and Apple iCal for your calendar, how do you give your assistant/partner/spouse/best friend full access to this information, so he/she can add, change, and delete entries?   With MobileMe.com If you have a MobileMe.com account, it’s easy to do it via a [...]

I just worked with a client who wanted to inexpensively create a website and host it at a custom domain name. Of course I suggested he use iWeb to create the site, because it’s very easy to use, even for non-designers. iWeb does have some downsides, the biggest one being that the page designs aren’t [...]

I’ve had so many clients and friends ask what they need to do to safely give an old Mac to a relative or donate it to charity. The easy way is to use the disks that came with the computer–insert the disk and use the Disk Utility program to perform a secure erase (I recommend [...]