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[Jeremy Boles (Personal Website)] Some other pieces of software try and do all of this in one package but what happens if I like the way Entourage handles my calendar but not the way it handles my contacts or my emails? Sure I can only use Entourage for the calendar, but now I have this bloated program open that I’m only using part of. I love Apple’s approach (I realize that they definitely aren’t the first to do this) with having the different programs interface with each other, but keeping the focus for each program separate. If I want to use Thunderbird instead of Mail, no problem.

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MacZealots.com - Reviewshttp://maczealots.com/reviews [MacZealots.com - Reviews] Panther: Room for Improvement (51): Apple is missing the boat in this department. If they could walk into any corporate environment and tell the CTO they could offer them Exchange capabilities without having to pay for Outlook, they would be able to switch a lot more desktops from Windows to the Mac. Apple could implement the calendaring in iCal so that it would synchronize events from the server to and from the local Macs. When it comes to inviting users to meetings, iCal already has basic abilities for that.

43 Foldershttp://www.43folders.com [43 Folders] I Want a Pony: Snapshots of a Dream Productivity App: Smart associations and intra-project linking - Related to the previous wish, I want a more mature version of Entourage 2004’s “Project Center” that lets me identify items (contacts, todos, calendar items, notes) to automatically be associated with a given project. The catch is, I want those projects themselves to be nestable, so that I can scoot them around, change their status, or even move them to a completely different client with dragging alone: no time consuming manual re-tagging, please (thanks for that boat anchor, Entourage!)Somehow, on this matter, I think there’s some good lessons to be recycled from the 3.0 Pro release of OmniOutliner.

[Across Weirdish Wild Space] My OSX desktop software inventory: behind Life Balance software which takes long term goals and recurrences and breaks them into categories and figures out where you are spending your time as, much like other people, sometimes my short term crap makes it so I never get to the longer term things I should be getting to. I’d love it if someone came up with the same idea but built it on top of the existing iCal, addressbook and other tools existing in OSX. I want a view/shell, not a complete replacement.

Kottke.orghttp://www.kottke.org [Kottke.org] Calendar apps? (kottke.org): Not that I'd say it's the best, but it serves my needs. Moreover, as I work in three different places (and have no handheld thinggy), I need to be able to check my calendar online. Sure some minor things are missing (mostly visually), but it works fine for me.

http://forums.applenova.com [Forums.applenova.com] AppleNova Forums - Office 2004: 1) Exchange Support! Entourage is now a MAPI-compliant client and I can have access to my Exchange Server's Global Address List (GAL), fee-busy data, etc. It's not as robust as Outlook 2003, nor does it really support all of the features in Exchange, but it's good enough. I now can offer viable options to my Mac clients who need the collaboration aspect Exchange Server offers.

Oreillynet.comhttp://www.oreillynet.com [Oreillynet.com] Followup Mac Conversation with Microsoft: My bottom line is that MS products as we now know them were developed for the Mac, have always been important on the Mac, and continue to be. Entourage is the new standard for integrated e-mail and PIM, which to me is the only way to go since PIM developers pay no attention to the need for e-mail merge (groups) in business. I do wish there was more competition for the Office suite, because it could still be better, but there really isn't at present.

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