. : Looking through the eyes : .

This is part of my montage creation, not really my real interest, but was born due to work requirement. Sometimes we have certain events where you need to contribute; and at the end I was assigned to maka video montage. My software of video montage creation is simple, Keynote 09′ (Apple’s powerful version of Microsoft PowerPoint) and then export it into movie.

Enjoy my first montage.

MD/CEO Farewell:

Length: 9:27

Software used: Apple Keynote on 10.6.4 OS X Snow Leopard

Description: Montage created for MD/CEO Farewell Dinner.

Ever since it was announced that the new OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will support Microsoft Exchange server out of the box, I was really excited since now, I no longer need to access my company’s email through Outlook Web Access (OWA) using web browser which is not native email client.

However, my excitement did not last forever when in the Apple Support website mentioning that this Exchange supported on Snow Leopard only support the Exchange 2007, not the Exchange 2003 which my company is currently using. I was a bit skeptical at this first since the latest version of iPhone works flawlessly with Exchange 2003; which many of my colleague is currently using.

Apparently after reading forums after forums, I discovered Snow Leopard Mail support Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is the new technology for Exchange 2007, unlike WebDav and IMAP Exchange which was previously supported in Exchange 2003. Apple iPhone on the other hand is using ActiveSync which widely used on mobile phones nowadays to connect and synchronize with Exchange server. This activesync technology is not supported on Snow Leopard Mail; an even on Microsoft Outlook at any Windows machines.

Well then, straight to the point:

What do you need

1. Install the davmail software. Get it from here: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

2. Apple Mail of course, either on Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.

3. Patient, patient, patient… if all the setting went correctly, the first email arrived might take a few minutes.

Instruction

1. I will not go too much in details. Please read the instruction here:  http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

These are importants

1. You need the OWA address. The format will looks like ‘https://owa.servername/exchange.

2. Click setting of preference on Davmail once you installed it and type in the server adress.

2. Open up you Mail. At preference, click the ‘+’ button and enter the details.

servername: localhost

username: domain\username:

password : xxxxx

Custom port address:

IMAP: 1143 (These are important)

SMTP: 1025

Please click the images below to visualize all the screenshot of all required setting.

If everything went well, take the account online and the mail will arrive within a few minutes.

Additional Info

If you want to further setup the iCal and Address to sync you calendar  and to get the company contacts and the autocompletion of address, please refer the website I mentioned above. If you manage to get the email working, the rest should be easier.

Happy trying !

Update (26/01/2010 9.29 PM)

I tried this method on Microsoft Entourage too. I works. I thinks it will work on any email clients supporting IMAP.

Manage to install Window 7 on my machine, just for testing though. I don’t think I will use it much since most of the application I needed is natively running on OS X. Anyway, I manage to skip the troublesome Vista… hehe

If I’m not mistaken, Tim Cook, COO of Apple showed this interesting picture during one of the Apple event last year. In this lecture hall in one of the university in the US, majority of the computers are Apple. I wonder how many percentage are non-apple computers.

Click the picture below for a larger version.

I know there’s a TV show @ AXN which is called Breaking the Magician Code; but I will instead writing on Hacking the Snow Leopard code. As written on my recent post, I had bought a new iMac which comes with the latest version Apple OS X, Snow Leopard 10.6. In the meanwhile my 3 yr old macbook have been upgraded to Leopard (OS X 10.5) from previously pre-installed Tiger (OS X 10.4). So what I have in mind is to have the new version of Snow Leopard to be installed on my macbook. I was not attempting to hack the code at the first place, but the later events follows after that lead me to do so.

Reminder: This article is not written to encourage you to get Snow Leopard illegally nor for you to distribute it through illegal channels. Please get the legal copy for yourself either through apple retailers or through the apple store.

The 1st attempt

Some of you might not know that in order to install an OS X on a mac computer, you do not need any serial numbers to activate the software, unlike the Microsoft operating system (XP, Vista, 7 etc). Due to that i have assumed that if you have a legal copy of Apple OS X which comes with you mac, you can install it on any other mac machines. Therefore, since I have the Snow Leopard DVD installer which came with my new iMac,  I inserted the DVD into my 3 yrs old macbook and assumed that the installation will go flawlessly.

How wrong was my assumption! When I tried to install, a pop window appear on my screen and mentioned something about the OS X is not being able to be installed at that particular machines. Hmm… so my first attempt failed.

Second Attempt

After my first attempt, I knew that there must be a way to accomplish my goal. So I googled around and found out this great ‘how to’ article to install Leopard (notice: not Snow Leopard) on unsupported mac. Well, his method was working for Leopard, so I think it might work on Snow Leopard and decided to try it.

Things you will need

• A Mac (which I already have)
• Decent DVD burner, DL is best I decided to boot it using USB drive (16 G since the image file is around 6-7 G). The method you can get here.
• A clean Snow Leopard disc or official dmg
• A decent image manipulator, Carbon Copy Cloner or disc utility
• Darwin Ports with xar installed, if running Tiger or below. Don’t need this if running Leopard.
• Terminal knowledge, helps, but I will give commands too. Mainly don’t be afraid to do some things manually.
• Patience

As mentioned above, for step by step method, I used the guide provided here.

I follow all the steps diligently, and managed to get my version of .dmg.

Well the moment of truth, I boot it using by 16G USB drive. The snow leopard installer screen appeared, and I thought i have it. But then, the same thing as the 1st attempt happened again. A pop window appear on my screen and you could know what the message is.

Third and Final attempt

Well, I did not gave up so easily. Since the method given was specifically for Leopard and my attempt was on Snow Leopard, I may need to tweak a little bit of the guide given. After several attempt, I thought of one possible solution.

This is the important tweak

If you read the guide, there’s a part on hacking of the code. So what I did was, instead of  changing the value ‘return false’ to ‘return true’ for only selected codes, I decided to replace all of ‘return false’ to ‘return true’.

I repackage the image, prepare the bootable USB installer, and give it another try.

The moment of truth! It work! Hehe…

I continue the installation until finish without any hiccup. Walla! Now I have Snow Leopard on both on my machines.

Below is the screenshot of my machine: