Last Thursday my advisor met me in the hallway and informed me that I had received an award for the Most Outstanding Student in the Digital Media department. What an honor. 

Well that is all the time I have for now. Hopefully my blogging will pick back up again once I graduate on May 3, 2008, and then have a real job.

All–in–all it was a great game. I finished the game with an assist and many blocked shots.

Check out his work, Tony Hill. 

This is another project I did, for Micah Huebner’s (Worship Leader) blog header.  

Then at work the next week I discovered a very cool proponent to having a .Mac account. There is a new feature in Leopard that allows easy access to any computer that has the same .Mac account, Back to My Mac. With this new feature you are able to gain access to those computers with the account without entering a password. You can even screen share with a computer.  

We (staff) have had a lot of interesting times this week getting on each others computers and messing with them while they are working. The best part about screen share with Back to My Mac, is that you do not have to ask permission in order to share the screen. So we access their screen without them knowing it and are able to do any and everything we wish. It even allows for direct use of keyboard shortcuts. 

This feature was designed initially to access a computer when a file was left on a computer at home, and you happen to be at work. You then can easily grab the file. Here at the church we are going to be able to access use of a computer during a service and not have to walk to the various rooms in order to troubleshoot.  Just another reason to have a Mac.

I started by going onto her iMac and opening Mail (Apple’s email application) to begin the conversion process. Here is where I hit the first bump, an expected bump but nonetheless a bump. Mail will not take files directly from Outlook on Windows.

So my next step was to search for conversion programs that would allow Mail to read Outlook files. I learned that I needed to convert the Outlook files into mbox files. Ok at least I know that. Good Luck finding a program that does not cost money to convert them.

Well I actually found one that worked (on about the sixth or seventh try). It happens that Mozilla, the same company that created FireFox, also makes an email application. And what do you know it’s standard file is saved as an mbox file. Great! I imported the files straight from Outlook. About ten minutes later all the files were in Thunderbird, working great. Then all I had to do was grab the file from the Thunderbird application folder, put it on the iMac and MAJA–KAZAM. It imported everything into Mail, including the folders. 

So if you are a FireFox user and love it, are using a PC, and hate Outlook’s monopoly—give Thunderbird a try.   
 

 I think it is designed amazingly, but I don’t think it will sell as well as Apple would like. It just doesn’t seem like a very durable notebook (in comparison to their others). But, it will sell.

 The only other negative I see the MacBook Air having is that it doesn’t have an optical drive. I understand Apple’s argument that we only use it for specific purposes, but there will be a time when a customer needs to have the optical drive and won’t have access to another computer or will have to pay $100 or wait for their external drive to arrive a few days later. It seems that Apple made up an excuse to not add one so they could claim the title…THE THINNEST NOTEBOOK EVER!!! It will be great as a personal computer, but not for professional use.