I watched Merlin Mann’s Google Tech Talk about processing email yesterday, and even though I’d followed his posts on Inbox Zero when they came out, it’s good to get a reminder, and Merlin’s an entertaining speaker – I recommend you watch it.

He talks about strategies for keeping an empty inbox based on processing email as [...]

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This is a short one, but it might help someone with debugging someday.

A while back, we had some code that was checking errno, then using the NSLocalizedString macro to get a localized error message, but it checked errno again later. Only the app isn’t localized yet. There’s no Localizable.strings file, so when NSBundle -localizedStringForKey gets [...]

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If you’re thinking of writing a commercially successful pro email client for Mac OS X, here’s some advice along the lines of what I wrote yesterday:

Make sure you’ve tried a lot of email clients. Try everything you can get your hands on. Really use each one – figure out what makes it different, and what [...]

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Brent Simmons started a discussion yesterday about email apps for OS X. To summarize: Apple Mail doesn’t do enough for everyone, and the alternatives aren’t so great either. But because it is free, there’s no incentive for a third party to do better.

Paul Kafasis agrees, saying “Don’t compete with Free and Don’t compete with Apple”. [...]

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