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Last night was Spring Fling, Aka Comm Prom. It went fairly well, with only one minor incident, and a lot of people having a great time. Net Impact does a great auction where they have students donate items, then they give the proceeds to one or more MBA students who are working this summer on socially responsible work. The theory is that these jobs often pay nothing or far less then students could get elsewhere, and it helps us put students where they want to be going forward, rather then where they can pay the bills from the summer. As you can see below, I took the option of black-tie option, and leveraged it.

If you’re using Mail.app for your school mail, and your school has a default signature, you can still have Mail.app add it for you. Copy it from one of your emails and go to the mail menu, then preferences. Select the Signatures tab, and then the account name you used (mine is Smith). Then just click the plus and paste in your signature. Again, I’ll post pictures later.

Ted

If you have a mac, and are at all intrested in twitter, try twitteriffic. It’s the best twitter software for any platform. If you’re trying twitter add me at http://twitter.com/tedwardm

If you don’t know what twitter is, its basically the away message from AIM/the status message from facebook that gets updated and sent to anyone who has decided to follow you. You can set your privacy so you have to approve followers first if you prefer. You can update it via mobile phone and decide if you want to get updates via phone/bb. This is the sort of thing you might turn on before going out for the night if you and your friends want to be able to update latecomers when you switch bars, or to plan things like when people are leaving for events like Spring Fling, or SF pre-parties (As a MBAA officer, I have to pitch Spring Fling)

For a different explanation, try wikipedia or the Twitter Homepage

I use Notes when I want to look up addresses, or when I want to edit something on the school calendars. Most of the time, I just use Mail.app, the mail client that comes with OSX. There are a couple tips that I have for it:

Letterbox is a nice piece of software that lets you move the preview pane from the top of the screen to the right, making the whole thing three panes wide.

I prefer to use IMAP over Pop. Without getting too technical, IMAP is designed to leave everything on the server unless its deleted, while POP is designed to transfer everything to your local computer. If you use IMAP, Smith IT can modify your mail file so that it doesn’t show up as new when you drag things from folder to folder. Mail them here

To setup mail, hit the new account button and select IMAP in the drop down (pics to follow). Give it a description like Smith, and put in your name and email and hit continue.

Enter imap.rhsmith.umd.edu in the Incoming Mail server tab. Make sure your username, with class year, is in the User Name field, and enter your mail password. This is the one you use if you get to mail over the internet, rather then via Citrix or in the lab. It may be the same, if you’ve used the sync tools

Just continue past the security screen.

On the outgoing mail screen, use smtp.rhsmith.umd.edu as your outgoing server, and click the box to use authentication. Make sure you use the same username and password you did for incoming mail.

At this point, just continue on any screens and close preferences. You’re set to get mail in Mail.app.

-Ted

You too can use the Lotus Notes client on your Mac! I’m not sure what other schools use Notes, but Smith does. Some of this will be targeted for other Smith Students, but most of it can be generalized (you may have to acquire your data files a different way)

First, you need to aquire Lotus Notes for the Mac. You can get it from IBM (registration required) or if you know me I can transfer it to you or I’ll burn you a cd if you bring me one.

You next need to get your username.id file. Smith Students can do that by connecting to “Winows Explorer” via Portal. Once there, allow read/write access and go to K:\Notes and drag the file to your “C:” drive (Actually your documents folder on your mac). In my case, the file was Emartin.id

Before you do the installation, you need to add the domain as an auto-appended search domain in your DNS. For a Smith student, the domain they will add is umd.edu. Open System Preferences and select network. Then select whichever networks you use, in my case I only use Airport. Select Configure on the network you want to edit, and select the TCP/IP tab. Then add umd.edu in the search domains box as shown below

Now go ahead and launch the installer from the disk image. The application installs like any other Macintosh application. When you run it for the first time, it will prompt you for your .id file, remember that it is in your Documents folder.

So, you know that everyone is a MBA nerd when you receive an invitation for a Happy Hour, and the invitation is a power point. Apparently, that’s the only way to do design or layout that anyone knows. It’s even nerdy when you realize that they did in fact format it according to the design rules for effective power points that we were all taught.