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Mail
Included in Mac OS X |
Eudora
A powerful tool to increase productivity and enhance your communications. |
Netscape
X
The latest update to the Internet browsing, email and instant messaging. |
Microsoft
Office Test Drive v.X
Test drive Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. |
Mozilla
Open-source web browser for standards compliance, performance and portability. |
StuffIt
Lite
Aladdin’s drag-and-drop access and compression utilities in one package. |
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Modern programs exchange information via the Internet standard MIME. With this protocol, mail passes smoothly from Mac to PC and back again. Mac OS X includes Apple’s email program, called Mail, which offers rich text, easy setup and filters, as well as an Address Book that lets you keep all of the contact information for friends, family and colleagues in one place.
You can also use Eudora, Netscape
Communicator or the Microsoft Entourage
program included with Mac Office. Webmail systems such as Hotmail, AOL
Mail and Yahoo! Mail function as expected on a Mac, too. If you’re
using a corporate email system, you can configure your email client to
use standard LDAP directory services.
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Mac doesn’t need application extensions such as .doc or .xls to open
files, but your PC-using friends still do — don’t forget to
add the extensions when emailing them files. Also, Mac OS X lets you save
files in the Adobe
Acrobat format, so your friends don’t even need the software
you use to read the documents you create. If you need to compress files
before sending, you can use DropZip
to send your friends a file in the format they understand. And if you
accidentally give them files in the Mac’s StuffIt (.sit) format,
tell them they can expand the file on the PC with StuffIt
Expander for Windows.
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