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Email has struck a cord with many prominent Mac bloggers:

No suitable email apps for Mac OS X
The Rise of the OS
It could work: a 3rd party email client for OS X
The Rise Of The OS
The state of Mac email
Daring Fireball
Regarding Mail Pro
Free advice about a pro email client
Dear Apple, we want MailKit
Restarting Innovation
Michael Tsai: Restarting […]

E-mail clients are interesting in that it’s a somewhat religious decision, comparable to choosing a text editor or operating system; everyone has an opinion and their own feature that’s always a deal breaker. I’ve used quite a few clients, and I’ve never been happy with the IMAP implementations, atleast with regards to Mac e-mail clients, […]

Due to the way Spotlight is designed, it is very difficult to index monolithic databases, as in all the data stored in one file. Spotlight works by monitoring the file system for modifications, like a file being created or a file being saved. When a file system event occurs, Spotlight identifies the type of file […]

TextMate is about the coolest editor ever made, and one especially cool feature is the ability to have snippets. I recorded myself using some built in snippets and a forall snippet, just watch it you’ll love it. Oh, and I know the example is kinda weird, I just made it up.
TextMate Snippets Video

For my school work, I’ve been using restructured text for my document formatting. I had never heard of it until, Nicholas Riley showed me some UIUC Computer Science webpages he had done with it. What surprised me most was how fluid and natural the markup is, for example here’s a headline and a list:

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Isn’t […]

Somehow I managed to install Adobe’s PDF Viewer as a web plugin. Now Safari no longer uses it’s built-in PDF viewer which is significantly faster that Adobe’s plugin. If you run into a similar situation here is how to remove the plugin: Delete the file AdobePDFViewer.plugin from the folder /Library/Internet Plug-ins