Kudos To Hawk Wings

Hawk Wings is an excellent blog about Mail.app (I, as a mac user, avoid Entourage which is sorta like Outlook for mac) and it has all kinds of fabulous tips about how to tweak Mail.app in OSX.

Now, Mail isn't perfect - however, no email program is. Somewhat like what I hear marriage is, compromise is part of the deal. However, I love the customizable features, and I miss no other now.

Even better, I've enabled IMAP on our servers which gives you a good percentage of the functionality that a Microsoft Exchange server does for.... free. I can check mail from anywhere, my multiple machines sync up - it's great.

But more to the point - this rule has pretty much killed all image spam for me. Not that I'm as paranoid about nasties being downloaded being in OSX, however, I can say I've gained ten minutes of productivity a day thanks to this rule.

Amazing things for Christmas...

Taking a break from the holiday festivities and a project to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year... and to comment on the so many things.

Firefox is now 25% of the browser market worldwide.

It's great to see so many switching - although there are alot of people who honestly love Internet Explorer. However, I find that they love it for the wrong reasons - such as it works better on their underpowered machine, or it's blue... 25% is an amazing feat, however, I think that until it comes bundled with PCs (which some it does now) it won't get to 50%. Also, IE 7 is a strong contender. As much as I'm for the underdog, the bottom line is that it is all about a solid computing experience for the user, regardless of the browser. If all the IE 7 improvement talk is not hype, I think a lot more people will be surfing safer. And that's a good thing, no matter the browser.

On a personal note, thanks to the close to 2500 unique people who check in on this blog and the mother site over the month now. We really, really, really appreciate your support and your business and that kind of traffic tells us that there are people who really appreciate and are interested in what we're doing.

2007 is going to be a huge year; we've negotiated deals with some great organizations and looking forward to serving you. We're also working on various other educational programs and media to augment the work we do for-hire so that our clients are given every tool to succeed.

Thanks so much - there is so much to be thankful for - from Erik and I and everyone else. Also thanks to all those who have supported and believe in us in various capacities - Tom, Jason, Todd, Brandon, Rebecca, Steve (and another Steve), and all the others I've not mentioned but value no less than the others.

Hipster PDA +Nano

So here is an interesting thought....

I love the idea of the hipster PDA from 43Folders/Merlin Mann. But, I always want to add a technology bit, and pre-iPhone, I've been using the iPod Nano for my contacts, calendar, etc. because it has beautiful integration with our platform of choice, OSX.

Well, now I've put the two together. I use the Nano to keep everything synced, and then I use the cards/clips to do the additions as I don't have a direct interface to program the Nano yet (iPhone please)?

What's great is every time I show someone, they can't believe that you can keep notes, photos, contacts and calendar on your iPod if you have a mac - and they want to throw their Treo or whatever in the trash as it just looks cool and works.