New apple laptop – MacBook Air; thinner, lighter, no optical drive on-board (but can use someone else’s over a network. 5 hour battery life, 1.36kgs. $AUD2499 (slower, 80GB HDD) or $AUD4338 with faster processor and 64GB solid state drive.
Category Archives: apple
NetNewsWire is now free
[kev] NetNewsWire is now free, along with the other NewsGator products.
MacBook – Appledefects
Thorough list of things that can go wrong with a MacBook
windows friendly with Mail.app
Somehow, I’d never noticed this Mail.app setting; in the Edit menu, under Attachments, there’s an option to Always send Windows-friendly attachments
Apple – iPod touch
Apple has announced a new iPod – it’s like the iPhone, but without the phone: iPod touch. They’ve also changed the shape of the iPod nano (which can now play video). No Australian pricing nor availability yet. Update: Australian pricing and availabilityiPod nano: 4GB – $199 (available now: silver), 8GB – $279 (available now: silver, …
MailActOn
If you use Apple’s Mail.app for your email, and you’re sorting things into folders, you should definitely try MailActOn: it’s a free add-on to Mail that lets you create email rules and assign keystrokes to them. Instead of dragging a message to a folder, you can create a rule that will put the currently selected …
mac applications to use
If you’re starting out with a new Mac, what software should you download? A London-based developer answers the question.
software: Paparazzi
Software: Paparazzi! Paparazzi is an invaluable little utility if you’re making websites (it’s freeware); specify a URL, and your choice of screen resolution, and it will make a PNG file of the URL.
Software: MailActOn
Software plugin: MailActOn If you’re using a Mac, and using Apple’s Mail.app to manage your email, you’ll find this little (free) add-on very handy. It lets you add rules, and activate them using a combination of keystrokes. I’m just using it for message filing: I have different letters for different folders, and instead of dragging …