Awesome resource for Mail.app users

For everything you ever needed to know about Apple's Mail.app - tips, reviews, add-ons and plug-ins - even interviews with power users. An awesome resource!

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New AJAX Blogging Engine - Logahead

Don't get too excited! I'm not a serious 'web 2.0' company or anything. I'm just a 17 year old student.

Basically, it incorporates some AJAX and has some of the 'cooler' features you might like to find in a blogging engine. You can read more about them on the features page of the website.

I am a relative beginner so go easy. Anyway, enjoy!

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Chinese iPod knockoff At Alibaba! w/ pic

Not sure but I assume apple legal will be taking these sites down soon. The first one is an iPod with another brand photoshoped below the screen. The blue and white one at least stands a chance of not being an exact knockoff.

The Alibaba.com sale page is here:
http://worldwidewin.en.alibaba.com/offerdetail/52234399/Sell_MP4_Player.html

The company's site is here. With several more varieties iPod knockoffs.
http://www.www-hk.com/Product.asp?BigClassName=Digitals&SmallClassName=MP4%20Player

Detailed Selling Lead Description
Features:

1) Design into unit that seems to have sense of movement

2) 1.5", 65,000 color gorgeous LCD

3) Balanced machine of sketch

4) Broadcast a variety of edit codes (MP3 / WMA / WAV) and documents

5) It is convenient to browse documents

6) Supports various balanced machines and 2 balanced machines of customers

7) Provides sleep function

8) Supports LRC lyrics

9) Supports lyrics and picture DIY

10) Supports animation DIY when it is switched on

11) Supports multilingual

12) Can listen to FM broadcast and record sound and campus broadcast

13) Works as moving hard drive

14) With lithium polymer battery inside

Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies

The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.

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How to Subscribe to TV Shows Using The Democracy Player, Bittorrent, & RSS

The Democracy Player is an amazing open source Internet TV application that allows you to subscribe to video RSS feeds from anywhere on the web. With a little hackery, The Democracy Player will make you wonder why you are still paying your cable bill.

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MacBook Pro vs. Dell Inspiron 9400 PRICE comparison

Side by side comparison of (basically) equal spec systems. The article is pro Mac, but informative either way. Based on the *updated specs & price* that the MacBook Pros are shipping with right now.

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Safari Worm Fix

The current "Safari Worm" is actually a problem in how the Finder has access to the Terminal. I have tried this fix, it is simple to run and quite safe. Yes, it is true, these attacks are not something to get overly worried about, but at some point the Mac will have a successful attack. It does not hurt to be prepared.

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Mac Attacks are HYPE

"...holes in Windows are routine ... These Mac "threats" are only news because of their novelty, not the threat level they pose". - Wired
This Wired article which uncovers the "storm in a teacup"-phenomena about Mac security-holes.

Yes, it is true, these attacks are not something to get worries about, but at some point the Mac will have a successful attack. If you would like to be prepared for the eventual attack here are my recommendations.

Safari Worm
The current "Safari Worm" is actually a problem in how the Finder has access to the Terminal (Talks to the Unix underbelly of OSX). There is a simple fix at this URL I have tried this is is simple to run and quite safe.
Fix:
http://nirs.freeshell.org/safe-terminal/SafeTerminal-0.1.dmg.zip

Further reading about the fix is in this article:
http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/02/22/potential.safari.fix/

Anti Virus
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X
Main Page:
http://www.clamxav.com/

Free Download page:
http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/index.php?page=dl

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Windows -- unsafe on any network

Do you want to put the fear of God into a Windows-using friend and get them to switch to Mac or Linux? It's an ugly story, but it's also a well-told one. Those of us in the business already know about botnets. Well, we should know about them...

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Mac OS X Essential Freeware

A list of quality freeware to make Mac OS X a much more productive place.

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Bye-bye, FrontPage in New Office, Says Microsoft

Microsoft will close the book on its FrontPage Web-design program with the release of Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12, late this year.

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Defense secretary does not use email

Revealed while Congress was investigating the response to hurricane Katrina: Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff do not use email.

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HOW TO: Keeping a hot backup of your Mac Drive

Instructions on how to keep a hot backup of your HD on an external drive. OS X has excellent cloning tools built in. The best part is that you can do it live--without needing to restart or "boot to dos" like you usually have to in Windows.

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How To Troubleshoot Any Networking Problem

Tech author extraordinaire Mark Minasi shares a bit over two dozen "rules of network troubleshooting." This will be new for some, a good review for others, and a handy reference for all.

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U.S. Can Watch Olympics Online For Free!

The network's official Olympics site, NBCOlympics.com, will show for free, on a delayed basis, the complete runs and routines for the top finishers and for all U.S. participants in almost every event!

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Digg Updates "Add Digg News To Your Site" Feed

Now you have more options on creating your digg feed. Also a HTML preview of how the digg feed will look like on your site. This is great! Keep it up digg.

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The mathematics of nature: PHI

A great looks into the mathematics of nature and the ratio (PHI) upon which almost EVERYTHING is based. The way leaves grow on trees, the way the human body is designed, and the way seeds sit on sunflowers are only a few examples. This is a very interesting read.

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Deficit Counter

Want to add a federal deficit counter to your website? just copy and paste the following code.

The Gross National Debt

Complete List of Web 2.0 Products and Services

The entire list of Web 2.0 applications that are out there.. Great list, nothing can beat it... Must digg link...

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Amazing real estate web site

Use this to instantly see how much your house is worth, compare property values, or see what houses in your neighborhood have sold for. Simply enter an address to search for and see a map showing property values for every house in the area. Click on a house to see a detailed listing including property data and last sale price.

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The Net can make people resign

George Deutsch, the Bush appointee and science censor at NASA who lied about graduating from Texas A&M University, has resigned thanks to the efforts of a little website that some of you may have heard of.

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Process Explorer 10.02 released (Win XP)

This major Process Explorer update has an extensive list of new features and enhancements aimed at usability and malware hunting.

Great task manager replacement application.

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Test How Degraded Is Your Apple Laptop's Battery

Coconut Battery is a Mac OS X application that finds out your original battery capacity and it's current battery capacity. Good way to find out when it's time to get a new battery.

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Top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users

So Macs are easier to use than PCs? Bouncing off a post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Dan Warne has summarised the top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users. Surprisingly, quite a number of the mistakes can be traced back to usability problems in Mac OS X itself.

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iWeb Hack -How to roll your own themes

While surfing around for inspiration for my own iWeb blog, I came across an enterprising iWeb user who has hacked iWeb. They dug into the theme files and substituted new fonts and pictures to create a whole new look and feel. The site has instructions and downloadable files to use on your iWeb site.

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Hydrogen-Powered Honda FCX to go Into Production

Several months ago at the Tokyo Motor Show, Honda introduced a wind cheating, earth friendly, fuel cell-powered concept called the FCX. Several weeks ago in Detroit at the NAIAS, Honda quietly announced that they would build a production vehicle based on the FCX concept.

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Think your wi-fi is secure?? Watch this video.

This video shows how you can easily reveal a hidden SSID and hack WEP encryption in about 10mins on a Mac with just KisMac. Call me if you need to know how to combat this on your network.

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MS Refuses to Release Patch for Friday's Kama Sutra Worm In Time

Microsoft has a patch for a worm set to go off on friday that deletes office documents. Instead they're waiting for the next patch Tuesday. Its a heck of a time to keep protocol.

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Video Tutorial on How to Shoot Better Video and Still pictures

This week the Mac Pro Podcast covered some basic tips on how to shoot better video and still pictures. Also covered: new features in iMovie HD, iPod Film Festival, and more!

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