I need some urgent help.

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Daz, Feb 21, 2007.

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    I need some help.
    My parents use AOL.
    Thats enough of a reason to want help.. right?

    Well no, it comes worse than that. They use AOL for mac.
    AOL, if I remember correctly uses the (discontinued for mac) IE shell.
    You can imagine how bad the AOL browser is for mac.

    So yesterday I bought my parents a new computer, they were using a g3 notebook.. and I just couldn't stand it. I'm using the 20" imac upgraded, but I bought them the basic 17" imac.
    My mom took a liking to it whereas my dad does nothing but bitch at the fact that I gave them one condition: No AOHELL gets installed on it.
    In fact this morning I was woken by my dad grabbing my other notebook (which still has AOL).

    So what can I do?
    Safari, or even FireFox is 100x the browser AOL can be, but my he likes the fact that it has the whole mail and IM thing installed on it.
    So , for the IM's we have iChat, but for mail ? And does anyone know if its possible to export a whole favorites list from AOL?
    I'll probably get FF & Thunderbird for mail, but anyone have an idea for the favorites?
     
    Daz, Feb 21, 2007 IP