I bought a Mac Mini so I could write an iPhone application. This was my first Mac, and I was always a Non-Mac guy. I didn’t hate the Mac, but I didn’t care much about them either. I guess I knew OS X was built on Unix, but it was not until I strarted up the Terminal app and found myself at a bash shell that I really got it. This is my new desktop computer, but my laptop still runs Windows.

The Mac Mini

I’ve been a Microsoft .NET developer for a while now, so building something for the iPhone outside of Visual Studio was going to be fun. The end result is OOFy. It’s a dead simple iPhone app that lets you set your Exchange Server Out of Office message. It works on both Exchange Server 2003 and 2007. I’ve tested it out on a number of different server configurations, but it’s not guaranteed to work on any non-standard installations. I’ve done contract work at Microsoft and it works on their setup, so that’s good enough for me.

Buy OOFy

OOFy is only $0.99 and it’s available in the Business Category of the App Store.

OOFy Main Screen

More information is available on the OOFy homepage.