a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
Right on! right on!
Now that I’ve started using NetNewsWire to read blogs, I find it frustrating to be constantly switching back and forth between NetNewsWire and Safari. This led me to wonder: should RSS capabilities and browsing capabilities be merged into a single “uber-browser” application?
Nice!! Finally everything from one place!
NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b13 adds—at long last—support for categories editing for Radio, Movable Type, and Manila (news items) sites.
Here are the change notes. [inessential.com]
I think I finally found the solution for fighting Spam.
While the Junk Mail filter in OS X Mail.app works quite well, the learning seems to reach a limit, at least with me. Prior to switching to Mail, I had actually purchased SpamFire to use but decided that I did not like having to use two apps in order to catch the buggers. Well for some reason that no longer bothers me and Wednesday SpamFire was updated to version 1.3.2 I decided I would try it again.
It works VERY well in conjunction with Mail, though would also work with Entourage as well as some other less used email apps.
You will want to run the updater once you have this running (Pro/Paid version only) which will download an install many (180+ in my case) rules for stopping spam. I am not sure yet what the period of time is between updates, i would guess weekly or monthly even.
In order to get going you have to set SpamFire up which is really pretty easy. One of the first things you do is import your addresses which immediately get added to the whitelist. You can set up several POP, IMAP or even Hotmail accounts to use which is quite nice. You can set the threshhold level (mine is on max!) and let it rip. You can have SpamFire check manually or on a timer, and after it runs, your email app of choice can then be set to check for new messages. I have mine set to check on a per minute basis and have placed Mail on manual check so that my pop servers do not run into already active sessions. Matterform actually recommends 5 minutes to avoid server collisions. I really have not had a problem with my set-up.
In the main window of SpamFire, you can work with the messages that have been held from your inbox. If you feel something has been held by mistake, it is very simple to add the sender to your friends list and then “Rescue” the mail. When your mail checks on the next run, the saved messages come right through. You can add mailing lists in addition to simple addresses which enhances the functionality quite a bit. Many mailing lists get sent to, or have a reply to set as the name of the list, and you can easily create a filter for them.
SpamFire provides a score for each message captured which is nice, because it allows you to get a better read on how this all works. You can even allow SpamFire to automatically delete messages from known spammers. I have yet to activate this feature, since I am not yet ready to allow for deletion without my review.
If Apple allowed for greater customization or more creative learning with the Junk mail rules, it would not be necessary to use 3rd party software, but until then I think I will be quite satisfied with SpamFire.
Apple’s new Safari Web browser has taken off faster than a brushfire on the Serengeti Plain. Within 24 hours of its January 7th introduction, Apple counted more than 300,000 downloads. But how many people are actually using Safari for everyday Web browsing, and what do Mac community gurus think of it?
In terms of everyday use, The Mac Observer said Safari accounted for almost 21 percent of user traffic on its site in the first eight days after its release. Considering that Safari is still in beta form and works only with Jaguar, Apple’s latest version of OS X , that figure indicates an impressive rate of adoption.
Wow – Today in the midst of keeping up with a array of work responsibilities, my email got completely messed up. Apparently Mail can get a bit finicky if you transfer messages back to the inbox from other folders.
I created a new rule to filter messages based on a client domain and then inadvertently released the track-pad Mail to Transfer again to a folder with my entire inbox selected. Every message was sent to the sub-folder and when I Transferred them back to the inbox they disappeared. No longer visable in my inbox (for any account of 4) or in the transferred folder, I started to panic as I had about 150 messages remaining in my inbox to file at the appropriate time.
I did a search on the Apple boards and came up with seemingly an exact instance of my situation, though the person who posted the problem had gotten there from a different path. I tried a solution there which involved changing the Open with… properties of an Mbox file and importing it into Entourage, to then import it back to Mail. No luck for me. The import in Entourage did not work at all! It did seem to want to import, but no messages ever came in.
I killed the prefs in Mail. This caused me to have to re-create all of my accounts other than my .Mac account which seems to stay (I guess from Internet Prefs). After I did that my solution was to then try and import my messages from the actual existing Mail folders. These are found at User Home/Library/Mail a folder exists for each account and you can import things back to Mail. My problem was that since I had taken some time to arrive at this point (damn panic!) I had already received some new mail in my newly created accounts. In order to maintain the messages I had previously I duplicated the new inbox files and the moved the old files into my new folders. This brought back my history of messages and then I was able to import the copies I had made to bring my newer mail back in.
I should mention one more detail. I also did an import from the root level of my Mail folders in the finder. This caused all BUT the inbox to come back in. Thanks, Apple. Not sure what the inbox folders from previous prefs are the only ones not brought back in, but it is the case. Fortunately I had my wits (at that point anyway) to remember the finder folder structure.
aigh.
Not the first time I have seen this idea… I think this is a bit cleaner and perhaps easier to deal with than the previous iteration which followed the look and feel of Preview. [anil dash’s daily links]
A small Safari icon appears in the top-left corner of Apple.com with the message “Welcome Safari user” when visiting the site with Safari. The icon does not appear when viewing the site with any other browsers.
I finally got the Kung Tunes kinks worked out thanks to some expert help from Adriaan Tijsseling, the developer.
Through the magic of email, we (actually just Adriaan) were able to troubleshoot the messy CSS I had running down the right side of the page. Now things look and work great! Thanks again Adriaan!
blogged while listening to Spiritualized “You Know It’s True/If I Were with Her Now/I Want You”#l[13:10]#l from Lazer Guided Melodies .
Also Is Phoenix Dead? [Mozillazine]
Seems that the impact of Safari on the Chimera project has been to cause an almost sudden death to the spurt of developmental energy which has been invested so far.
It’s too bad that the Phoenix team is also suffering a similar fate. Safari has been great as my primary browser so far but certainly lacks some of the features that have been incorporated by the Chimera team. It seems that Dave Hyatt is working hard to defeats bugs (first) and continue to develop the feature set.
So many people have found my post on Plucker, it’s amazing! I’m glad the help I got to get this to work has been able to help so many others as well.
Thanks to Atmasphere.net, I now have a functional Plucker Desktop on my iBook. After a comment in one of my old posts, from the man in the Atmasphere himself, Jonathan Greene, I got jpluck up and running. As the title of this post suggests, jpluck is far from attractive, but it does make it easy to get Plucker content from an OS X machine to a Palm OS device. Here are the Atmasphere details. I’m working on a slightly more idiot proof version of the instructions, based on a couple of hitches I ran into while trying to get jpluck…
I could not agree more! I don’t want to see comments for every post on a blog in my newsreader either. It would nice to subscribe via email like the way you get comments on your own blog in MT.
Every time I post a comment on a weblog I have to remember to go back and see if anyone followed up. We have to figure a way to automate this. Agree or disagree?
So I am not sure exactly what the deal is, or how this works for that matter but when I used the Kismac AP scanner software quite a few new networks showed up at home. I usually only see Zion, which is my Airport (yes I like the Matrix). Standing in exactly the same place in my living room I was able to see four additional networks. I can sometimes see additional networks walking around and trying placements near my ceiling or floor, but this is amazing. Kismac uses its own drivers instead of the standard Airport driver which is clearly enhancing the range and signal on my PowerBook.First on the 12″ PowerBook:(Subscription required)
The 12-inch PowerBook is one sweet little laptop. Sheathed in an aluminum case, it has the feel of a finely made camera. And it’s the smallest notebook I’ve tested that sports a full range of features, including one I’ve never seen on a compact laptop. Yet it’s significantly less expensive than some comparable Windows laptops.
This PowerBook is slightly smaller than Apple’s low-end laptop, the iBook, but is powered by the more potent G4 processor that drives the larger PowerBooks. Apple has omitted a few standard PowerBook features — including a special memory cache that speeds things up — to protect sales of the older PowerBooks. But in my tests, the little PowerBook felt speedy and sure on every task I threw at it.
Safari’s main goal was to be speedier than the Mac version of IE, and it is. In my tests of five popular Web sites, Safari beat the Microsoft browser in rendering a page every time, sometimes by seconds, other times by huge margins.
Falling in deep like with Apple’s Safari browser but can’t tear yourself away from Chimera’s tabbed browsing? Now’s your chance to potentially influence the powers that be on the subject:
Sign the petition at PetitionOnline. [raelity bytes]
As Apple computer chooses open-source competitor KHTML for its Safari browser, Mozilla critics say AOL Time Warner’s browser suffers from code bloat, among other problems. [CNET News.com]
NNW just keeps getting better and better…
This release focuses on the news reader. Changes include displaying the time for the next refresh, remembering column sizes, and fixing an OPML subscriptions importing bug. (See the change notes for more info.) [Ranchero]
SafariMasks was made to customize the look of Safari – Apple’s new turbo web browser for Mac OS X. With SafariMasks you don’t have to settle with Apple’s navigation buttons. Simply choose a new theme from our list and click install. Within seconds you can have a brand new theme to use when surfing the web. It’s that simple.
I don’t use Entourage, but I did request this feature for Safari. I miss the ease in which you are able to email a link from both Chimera and IE. Hopefully soon enough.
Insert Safari URLs is a script that will take URLs selected from open windows in Apple’s “Safari” web browser and insert them into a message composition window in Microsoft Entourage. Multiple URLs can be selected.