Archives: Mac Tips

Monday, November 7, 2016

Securely Erasing a Mac (before selling)

Review: What to do before selling or giving away your Mac, support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201065 Erase the Mac's internal drive, support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204904: Start up from the internal Recovery partition, by holding down Command (⌘)-R immediately after turning on or restarting your Mac. Release when you see the Apple logo. Open Disk Utility... More

Monday, May 2, 2016

Mac Tip: Accessing Banner INB from a Mac

If you are a staff or faculty member with authorization to access Banner, Carleton's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from a PC, you can also access it from a Mac. You will need: A wired, on-campus network connection. If you are on wireless or off-campus, you must use VPN first. Java installed on your Mac. You can... More

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Mac Outlook 2011 fix for OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

Microsoft has identified a problem with Mac Outlook 2011, part of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, running under OS X 10.11 (El Capitan): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3098396 Please note: The problem does not affect Mac users who upgrade to OS X 10.11, and then read their Exchange email using OS X’s built-in mail.app or who access... More

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Mac Email Tip: winmail.dat attachment!?

If you receive an attachment labelled winmail.dat on your Mac, it means that the message was sent from Microsoft Exchange and that you were inadvertently sent the message in an internal format intended for Microsoft Outlook users. This is not something that the sender explicitly chose to do, but rather a hiccup that can... More

Monday, September 30, 2013

Mac Tip: Configuring Carleton email

Reading your Carleton mail directly on your Mac using an email program is easy and more convenient than logging onto a website to access your mail. You have a choice of email programs to use, viz: The Mac's free, built-in Mail.app email program, or The commercial Microsoft Outlook email program, included in the Microsoft... More

Monday, September 16, 2013

Using your iPhone to control Keynote on your Mac

If you're presenting your slides using Keynote on your MacBook, you can use your iPhone with the iPhone Keynote Remote app to advance your pressentation, as well as preview your next slides. Unfortunately many enterprise Wi-Fi networks, including Carleton's CU-Wireless, are not compatible with Bonjour protocol that the iPad uses. So here's... More

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