Category: ramblings

NewsMacPro has been really flakey on me lately, so I thought I’d register NetNewsWire, and I see they’re running a special if you get the bundle with MarsEdit, so I’m trying that out. I’m not sure I like it so much, though. There’s no real WYSIWYG to speak of (the “live preview” doesn’t count— I…

Merlinn Mann has been doing a great series on 43 Folders this week called Inbox Zero, with tips on getting your email Inbox to zero messages. With having downloaded all the webmail from the last six months into my new laptop— now totaling 15,862 messages— I can use all the help I can get.

Now that I’ve got a ‘Book back, I’d much rather hit all of my email in one place, so with the help of Hawk Wings, I discovered this handy-dandy guide for getting your gMail in Apple Mail. So now I’m downloading six months worth of gMail into my ‘Book… Wish me luck. 😉

Well, it looks like it was just the power adapter after all, thankfully. The guys at MBS left the MacBook connected to a known good power supply overnight, and eventually it charged up. Plus, I got my new power supply via Airborne this morning— and surprisingly enough, they actually rang the doorbell and handed it…

Even better than Macintel, I am enjoying the new acronym ICBM— in this case meaning Intel Chip Based Mac. Which begs the question: Is it really an acronym if you can’t actually pronounce it, or is it then just an abbreviation?  If so, is there another special term for those? (rummage). Well, looks like Merriam…