From Ted Dziuba: MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web Development. Textmate sucks Sooner or later, you have to face facts. Man up and learn Emacs. Ted’s probably the funniest person blogging about tech that I’m aware of. Take note of the filename of the image he used for this post… He just seems angry [...]

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From the always-interesting Canonical Design blog: Introducing Overlay Scrollbars in Unity. (Who wouldn’t love to see an Apple Design blog? It’s fun to follow along as some serious, talented people rethink stuff we use everyday…) Take a look at the video – and stick with it all the way through. At first I didn’t like [...]

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Link: MailPerspectives MailPerspectives is a new plugin from indev software for Apple Mail. It adds new window styles that are more compact than the standard Mail window, with improved keyboard navigation to process your messages more quickly. Take a look at the interactive HTML virtual tour – probably the best app-marketing scheme I’ve seen, because [...]

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Link: Quick note: MailMate Missed this until Michael Tsai mentioned it in the latest Release Notes for SpamSieve – if MailMate works for me on 10.5, I’ll give a review here. Apparently, it’s been in beta for over a year. Not sure how I missed it.

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Maybe I should’ve called this “Mike Checks Out”. I’ve decided I’m going to be less ambitious about big posts here and just post small things as they come. Hopefully that’ll be interesting.

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Link: Detailed Usability Review of Thunderbird

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I think the less an email application does the better — feature-rich ones only encourage users to move in. I’d rather spend my time somewhere else. from nerdgap.com

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I might be the only person who ever thought to complain that the key shortcut for “Send this message” is different across mail clients – I guess most people only use one. But even before I started this project I was using multiple clients at once, to separate “work” email from “home” email in a [...]

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Link: 52tiger.net on new MobileMe webmail client A nice detailed description of the updates to MobileMe’s webmail client from Dave Caolo at his new blog, [52tiger](http://52tiger.net/). I haven’t used MobileMe mail for several years, mostly because the couple hundred dollars I spent on .Mac without ever really getting much use out of it, before finally [...]

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How well does GMail let me create filters to handle heavy traffic lists? GMail is not perfect, but it’s got the workflow down right. When I want to add a filter, I am probably looking at a message that I want the filter to match. So GMail’s “Filter messages like this” command is a great [...]

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