*UPDATE: Upon further examination of my blog stats, I found reference to an Apple IP address.  It’s true.  Apple is indeed testing Mac OS X 10.7.  Hopefully, Apple will announce details of the new OS soon!

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A few days ago, I was checking the stats of my blog using a plugin called StatPress.  To my surprise, I found that one of the visitors of my blog was using Mac OS X 10.7, which has so far been unannounced by Apple.  Could someone at Apple be testing the next version of Mac OS X?  On further examination, I could not locate any reference to Apple’s IP address range (17.x.x.x) anywhere else in the web stats.  Therefore, the mysterious user of 10.7 must have been someone outside of Apple’s corporate network.

I was disappointed that we did not hear anything from Apple at the World Wide Developers Conference in June regarding the newest version of Mac OS X, which is obviously in development right now.  Hopefully, Apple will announce something soon.  One of the fun things about being a Mac user is that we always have the pleasure of looking forward to something new.

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Whats New in Kerio Connect 7.0 | Kerio.

Today, Kerio announced the release of Kerio Connect 7.0.  The name change from Kerio Mail Server reflects the evolution of the product away from just being a mail server.  Kerio connect is a great alternative to Microsoft Exchange.  It enables cross platform collaboration, wireless mobile synchronization, very robust and easy to manage email security, email archiving, and automated backup.  Also, new in Kerio Connect is full web access to administration.  Click the link above to learn more.

If you’re in or near Dallas/Fort Worth, Kinetic Technology Group can help you deploy and manage Kerio Connect for your business.  In addition to deploying your new server running Kerio Connect in your office, we also offer colocation at our data center near downtown Dallas, and Kerio hosting through Rocket Fast.

Beta 3 of Kerio Connect 7 (renamed from Kerio Mail Server) from Kerio Technologies, Inc. now supports CardDav.  Snow Leopard users can now rejoice that fully native contacts synching is on the way.

When Snow Leopard released on August 28th, Kerio Mail Server was not fully compatible with Snow Leopard.  I have always enthusiastically upgraded to the latest version of Mac OS X on the date of the release, so when I found out that KMS was not going to support Snow Leopard, that was a major drawback.  Although email was unaffected, Kerio Mail Server was not compatible with the new version of iCal in Snow Leopard.  Anyone who upgraded to Snow Leopard found out afterward that their Kerio hosted calendar was read only in iCal, and could not be managed in iCal.  Users needed to either modify their calendar from webmail, or use another device such as their iPhone.  Kerio followed up with an update (6.7.2) less than a month later.  The update fixed the compatibility issue with iCal.  With Snow Leopard, Apple introduced CardDav into Address Book.  Along with CardDav, Apple also added an updated native Exchange synching feature in Address Book.  This broke the ability for Address Book to synch with Kerio Mail Server through ‘Exchange’ synching.  Snow Leopard users would need to use the Kerio Sync Connector instead, which is a separate add-on that needs to be installed, and later, manually updated each time that there is a Kerio Mail Server update.  Kerio Sync Connector will synchronize the user’s contacts and  calendars with the Kerio server automatically.  Calendar synching can also be handled through CalDav instead of using the Kerio Sync Connector.   Computer geeks like myself don’t have a problem with updating software on a regular basis.  However, non-savvy users will often put off downloading updates, which over time, will lead to synchronization problems.

I thought this sort of thing only happened in places like Arkansas, or West Virginia.

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