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http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/05/mac-os-x-1053-sync-google-contacts.html Very nice addition. Now I can actually keep my iPhone and Google contacts in sync.

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/05/27/microsoft-demonstrates-multi-touch.aspx Oh good, Microsoft is really blowing us away here. First they showed off Surface last year, multi-touch on something table-sized. Now they’ve incorporated it into a laptop-size across all of Windows. Keep in mind this is something without a release date, and yet Apple’s been doing this pretty seamlessly on the iPhone, roughly 10% [...]

Link: And that’s without having to install the stupid SaveAsPDF add-on. Yay.

Recently a few of the folks I work with that use Macs noticed Entourage 2008 was having trouble using Exchange 2007 Web Services properly (as it advertised it would). I tried it out from home and verified the same thing, that the Out of Office Assistant and Free/Busy lookups didn’t go so well. I’ve been [...]

The mixed reports that I’ve read up to this point didn’t really nail down whether or not SSTP as a VPN protocol was going to be included in SP3. Last night I updated one of my machines to SP3 and confirmed it is not present. That’s a bummer. That’s an incredibly useful protocol and would [...]

For the most part, installing certificates on Windows is no easy task for an end-user. A combination of mmc and trying to put the cert in the right store is a much, much longer process than is needed. This post should show you how to export a certificate from the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store [...]

Granted, this has probably been going on for awhile now, but since I tend to use my Apple products on the Mac at home it’s the first time I’m seeing it. The software update I was offered this morning includes Safari being checked by default even though I have never had Safari on my PC. [...]