Over the past few weeks we’ve posted a number of articles on ways you can enhance your Mac experience.

Some of the most popular posts have been about how to make your Mac a phone, what we really wanted with an enhanced AppleTV, and how to take advantage of screen sharing in OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Other popular articles discussed how to combine a Mac, Wii, and HDTV to get a new media experience in your living room.

If you missed any of these articles, now is your chance to catch up!

Last week apple announced a number of software features and additions to the upcoming release of iPhone 2.0. One of the most significant features was the support for Microsoft Exchange servers.

Now users will be able to access their work based email with full Microsoft Exchange support on their iPhone.

Since Apple often mentions how the software you use on your iPhone and iPod Touch are based on the same code as their counterpart applications on your Mac computer, it suggests that Microsoft Exchange support will also be coming to mail.app.

This possibility is significant as it helps push Apple’s products more into the business market

IF Mail for OS X does gain full Microsoft Exchange support then users will be able to take full advantage of their work email without needing to purchase Microsoft Office 08 to gain access through Entourage.

Apple may have added one more feature to their iWork package, Corporate Email Support through MAIL.

The folks over at AppleInsider couldn’t resist opening up their new Time Capsule to see what was really inside. I think the most revealing discovery is the “server grade” drive is a Hitachi Deskstar drive found everyday desktop computers. In addition, these drives are used in Apple’s xserve line so that must be what Apple meant when it said “server grade”. However, the drives on an xserve unit are easier to replace when they fail (and they do). We can hope that Apple has confidence in Hitachi’s drives or we can by cynical that Apple is being cheap on the drives. Just keep in mind that “server grade” or “server rated” may not mean what you think it means.

I had a co-worker who talked about the “great hard drive crash of 98″, in which his computer drive failed and he lost tons of data. Even worse, he was in the middle of school and most of his projects were on the drive. Could disaster have been prevented? It’s possible.

Modern hard drives ship with SMART, or Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. SMART is like the check-engine light for your hard drive. The idea is to warn you that the drive may fail soon so you can take steps to backup your data and avoid your own personal “great hard drive crash of 98″. One drawback is, most operating systems are weak on reporting of this information, kind of like putting the check engine light in the trunk. But us Mac users have help thanks to SMARTReporter.

SMARTReporter is free software that monitors the SMART status of your drive and can alert you if there is a problem. Unfortunately, some drives crash too quickly and spectacularly for the SMART system to do any good. But if your drive is dying a slow death, SMARTReporter will be able to help.

If you were planning on using your Macbook Air to watch DVDs by using the shared DVD feature with another computer in your home, think again. Because of DVD encryption technology DVD Player on OSX does not allow for streaming video over a network. This eliminates the ability to insert your DVD into your iMac or other computer and share that DVD with your Air.We’ll be looking at some different ways to approach this problem, but if you have a solution please let us know!