John Gruber wrote a bit today (“Getting Steve Jobs Wrong”), about Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was missing the central question of the man – how can we define what it was, exactly that he brought to the table? Gruber’s piece rings true and a bit sad, because we probably won’t get the insight [...]

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My shared links for June 29th: Postbox 2.5 Now Available! — Postbox – Why is 64-bit support the first bullet point? Avoiding email bankruptcy (part 1) – Chuqui 3.0 – Part 1 of 2: learn to recognize that email takes time and block out time to deal with it Avoiding email bankruptcy (part 2) – [...]

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I gripe about the way things used to be.

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Text Editor Intervention by Watts Martin (@chipotlecoyote). A sane but kind letter to Mac users who loved TextMate but think they need something more, and assume it has to be something new. I agreed with every point – in particular the point about tabs being terrible for keeping track of lots of files. I often [...]

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Link: Adam Engst on GMail at Tidbits The start of a 3-part series on GMail from Adam Engst. He was a long-time Eudora user, so it’s interesting to see how his workflow changed when he moved to such a different program. Also, as a journalist I’m sure he gets tons more email than average people, [...]

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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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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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