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Sunday, April 7, 2002
Recent notable software updates

- Chimera 0.2.0 - Many improvements to the very early beta release of the Cocoa-based Web browser
- PodNotes 1.1 - Update to the shareware iPod notes tool that lets you alter notes in your Contact list in your iPod. New to this release is newsfeed support
- iPodMemo 0.2.2 - A small program that uses the vCard capabilities of the iPod to store memos
- VueScan 7.5.16 - Update to the OS X film and flatbed scanner software
11:00:54 PM comment


A reader responds to my "Mail revisited" piece
Ronald Leppke reminds me that everyone's tastes and requirements in an e-mail client are not the same in an e-mail her sent regarding my Mail revisited article that was posted yesterday:
I am so delighted with Mail and and especially happy to be free of Eudora. I hate the spellcheck program in Eudora and that aspect alone makes Mail ten times better for me.

In over a year, I have never seen those error messages that seem to negate everything positive in Mail for you. When I had @ Home/Excite, 90 % of my mail was spam in spite of my filtering attempts with Eudora and later with Mail.

Although I hate AT&T generally, my @ attbi.com connection is absolutely 100 % free of spam so any alleged Mail deficiency as a spam filter is of no consequence for me. I try to force my self to use Entourage for one exclusive part of my responsibility (membership chairman for 650 member club) but it much easier for me to do it all in Mail.

Mail.app is perfect for me with no problems. I use keystroke navigation and have no notion about you mean with "slow window switching," "message-fade effects," and "constant spinning" for indexing.

I just now tried about a dozen window switches and another set of indexing and there was no spinning beach ball; everything popped as I clicked.

Obviously your mileage may vary.

Ron

Thanks for the comments, Ron! 8:12:18 PM comment

A Disk Copy tip from Ken Bereskin
Did you know that Mac OS X lets you create disk image files encrypted using the AES-128 encryption algorithm?

Disk images are cool because they are files (easy to transport and share) yet when mounted are a full HFS+ (or MS-DOS/UFS) volume format. With AES-128, they are strongly protected.

How do you create a disk image? Simple - open up the Disk Copy utility and choose New Blank Image... from the Image menu. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 7:54:15 PM comment



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