From @spamsieve, I heard that BareBones’ Mailsmith has a new home: mailsmith.org. It’s freeware and will be under development. It’s great to see new life for one of the few alternative desktop mail clients for OS X, and while there’s no info on their plans for it yet, there’s some great discussion of possible features [...]

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From the HN thread on this post from Garry at posterous, about product minimalism: Teams at apple are TINY. Mail is like 3 guys. … Two things: The thread was about how high quality software is easier without politics you get in large teams, which I agree with, and I bet that a lot of [...]

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From C-Command Blog – EagleFiler 1.4.7: a bunch of nice refinements. I use EagleFiler to keep track of reference documents that I get in emails. Presentations, reports, etc – the kind of thing that would usually just get stored in the mail archive. Because I want a complete mail archive and a fast way to [...]

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I do a quick one-bullet review of Mac SVN clients.

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Discussing some quirks of dialog design in iCal’s event edit window.

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Now that we’ve got Google Maps, I’d like to see my calendar program (iCal) extended to pay more attention to the location of events. Show me how long it’ll take to get to events I’ve scheduled, based on where they are. Traffic estimates would make this really killer (at least here in So-Cal) It might [...]

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