Russ's Biz Talk posts

Getting RealPlayer To Work on Your Mac

I posted the following article to my blog at http://bit.ly/pRyHR over the weekend. Hope this helps someone.

Problems playing content with RealPlayer on your Mac? Try configuring to receive content via HTTP only:

1. On the RealPlayer menu, click Preferences.
2. Click the Transport icon.
3. Select the Use manually configured RTSP and PNA transport Settings check box.
4. Click the Configure button.
5. Under RTSP, clear all boxes except HTTP.
6. Under PNA, clear all boxes except HTTP, then close the Transport Preferences window.

This may degrade image quality somewhat, but it does fix "socket" and "transport" errors in many cases. I had to do this on my own computer to get RealPlayer to work.

Customer Management Solutions

Share your experiences with contact management and CRM solutions here. What are you using to keep track of your network, prospects and customers on your Mac?

Personally, I have been using Marketcircle Daylite for over 10 years (www.marketcircle.com). However, because I'm growing my business virtually and can't predict what type of computer my contractors use, I have chosen to use SugarCRM (Community Edition for now). Since it's web-based, I can host it on the same account as my website, and access it from any computer that has a current web browser installed (platform independent). So far, I'm pretty impressed with it.

The company SugarCRM (www.SugarCRM.com) makes the software open source, which means that the source code is freely downloadable. They also offer a Community Edition for free (no support from the company, but there is tons of community help out there).

Let us know what you are using and what advantages and limitations you are finding.

Russ

Olympia W&T Locations?

While we are now doing a weekly Walk & Talk in Olympia Monday evenings around Marathon park, we are considering doing an additional Walk & Talk at Noon on Tuesday or on Wednesday...

Maybe Tumwater Falls loop?

Any feedback would be appreciated. Happy trails!

iPhone 3.0 software

Report your experiences with the new iPhone OS here!

Mac Related Links

Please post links to useful Mac related information to this thread. I will periodically consolidate the threads into one link list.

I will also include my own links here, but I'm not intending this as spam :)

CreativeTechs - Professional Mac support for Seattle-area creative teams. http://creativetechs.com/

*They also have a weekly tips email that I've found valuable over the years. Sign up or read it online at http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/

DealMac - find great deals on Mac related items (http://www.dealmac.com)

http://www.everymac.com - Technical specs on all Macs

http://lowendmac.com/ - Information about Old Macs

www.macexpert.com - Russ Alman's Mac support site. Mac support in Olympia and the South Sound. Also, remote screen sharing support anywhere. I am focusing on my marketing business now (Alternative Marketing Connections), but still offer Mac services. My specialty areas are Marketcircle Daylite (Mac-based customer account management CRM), SugarCRM (Open-Source, platform-independent, web-hosted CRM), social media-friendly website design, and social media marketing/management programs.

*MacNN - probably the most up to date source for Mac news (http://www.macnn.com)

Marketcircle http://www.marketcircle.com - Mac sales automation tools, including: Daylite (Networkable customer relationship and project management) Daylite Touch (iPhone app version of Daylite) * Billings (Mac billing software, links to Daylite)

http://mac.oldapps.com/ - Old versions of Mac Software

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com - Information about hardware and peripherals

Walk & Talk

I have created Walk & Talk events for this coming Monday, April 27, and May 4. The May 4 event is listed here, but because I created the April 27 one before this group was created, I am providing the link here:

http://biznik.com/events/west-olympia-walk-talk-0

Note that the venue has changed to Marathon Park.