12 Month Windows

One of the best hardware features on the MacBook (Air or Pro) is the trackpad. It's likely the best one on the market. It's accurate, it supports multi-touch, and has an excellent texture. It works like a dream on the Mac side of things, supporting gestures which allow quick navigation within the operating system. On the Windows side of things, it's much different. Obviously the hardware feel doesn't change, but the way the hardware interacts with the OS is drastically different. Gone is support for gestures and multi-point input (outside of a two-finger right click). None of the Windows 8.1 specific gestures function with the Apple built driver, so you're kind of stuck in this weird limbo experience. If you don't know what the trackpad is capable of in Windows 8.1, then you don't know what you're missing out on, but if you are aware of what is possible, then you will feel a little frustrated at the lack of ability to perform the quick actions to ...

After much searching of the interwebz and finding no easy solution, I decided to start poking around myself. So the symptom is that you're running Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp and you setup iCloud mail in Outlook 2013, but when attempting to setup the iCloud contacts folder as an Address Book the check box that says "Show this folder as an e-mail address book" is grayed out and cannot be checked. As reference, I'm running a Late 2013 15" MacBook Pro retina with a discrete graphics card (which has nothing to do with this issue, but full disclosure and all that), but I've found this issue referenced multiple systems (including non-apple systems). The solution, it turns out, is far easier than anything I found online. Perform the following: 1. Right click on the Windows button (Windows 8.1) or click on the Start Button (Windows 7). 2. Open Mail control panel. 3. Click E-mail Accounts button 4. Click the Address Book tab 5. Click "New...