Hi and welcome to UKMac.net.
My name is Scott Paterson and I have been a Mac user for the last 4 or 5 years since I bought my first Mac, a 17″ G5 iMac. At work I am an IT Manager in a large UK Hospital where I am responsible for several thousand Windows PC’s, a few hundred servers, a large network and a huge range of mostly Windows applications. Dealing with Microsoft tools all day at work and reading more and more about the benefits of OS X eventually led me to make the leap to Mac and I have been a keen devotee ever since.
In recent months I have begun to convince friends and family of the benefits of Apple products and have seen half a dozen of them recently make the switch from Windows as well. For this reason alone I believe that the predictions of a sea change, particularly in home use, of Macs and OS X are about to become reality.
This blog is a collection of personal picks from the wealth of Mac news and review sites around the Internet along with a few hints and tips thrown in for good measure.
If you have found this site and would like to be part of the future development please drop me a line or a comment. I would love to see more contributions here especially from UK based Mac users and switchers.
Welcome again and enjoy.
Like you I also work in the NHS. I am about to switch to Macbook pro – very excited – , and will be accessing NHSmail with it when working at home. Have read the threads on connecting with MS Exchange with interest, and clearly Apple Mail or Entourage will now work.
Currently I access my own NHS mail account and a departmental generic NHS mail account on Outlook, as well as sharing calendars. The departmental generic account calendar is the means of running our duty rosters, meetings etc, and uses the categories in Outlook for easy identification.
Which system would you advise me to use after the switch, to retain as much of the above functionality as possible? entourage seems reasonably similar to Outlook, bu tI have no experience whatsoever of the Apple mail and calendar systems.
Also interested in assisitng witt your site, though I am a complete newbie at this.
Hi Scott,
I just wanted to say that I have found your website really helpful. I have been quite undecided about getting an iphone amidst all the hype, and having read some of your articles and seeing what they are capable of I think I am going to give one a test drive. It will be interesting as my partner is getting a blackberry so we can compare them.
I wondered if you would be interesting trying one of our iphones case and giving it a review?
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Let me know what you think either way and we can have it sent straight out for you.
Thanks
Adam
Hi Scott,
I just wondered whether you would be interested in publishing a guest blog from an Apple Education Mentor? I would love to contribute to your site in some way so if you could drop me an email that would be great.
Many thanks
Sonya