Archive for January, 2006



Content Is King

I was thinking the other day about how the web started out simple, with just plain text and links. Before long we had graphics, flashing text, frames and pages muddled in animated gifs. People have figured out that most of that is junk, a flashy site design isn’t going to make your site popular if […]

http://frenchmaidtv.blogspot.com/ Enjoy.

AdBlocking with Safari at ollieman.net:

Using two very simple steps I’ve managed to eliminate almost all ads from the daily browsing experience. Sure, there are a few that get through, but it’s not much and nothing really annoying.
The first step is to download a adblocking css file from floppymoose.com (direct link - download this). […]

I’ve been working on stress testing Kiwi. I setup an e-mail account and signed up to all of Apple’s mailing lists and a bunch of Linux mailing lists. I’ve collected about 10,000 messages so far. We are aiming at handling 20,000 messages in an IMAP folder (not per account, per folder) as efficiently and quickly […]

Searching E-mail in Kiwi

In Kiwi, the plan is to have very extensive support for searching e-mail. I think archiving e-mail and search are the two areas that are really going to make Kiwi shine. First off, we are going to support two different kinds of searching: server side and local. IMAP allows server side searches where the server […]

Very cool stuff. I hope we can use it in Kiwi. http://www.tumultco.com/blog/?p=43