http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10559202

Worth a read.…

I'd really like to switch from entourage but cannot see a way to export from entourage to thunderbird

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040225022427754

mbox is the standard for Thunderbird.

The thing about Outlook is it is not just an eMail client. It is also a calender/Organiser, with reminders for appointments etc. task lists and a fully fledged contacts database with all the bells and whistles you could imagine IIRC Lotus was similar but Evolution is Open Source.

Doesn't Gmail…

Cyanotype prints are quite exquisite.

Has anybody here played with cyanotypes? I'd like to give it a go, having read up on it, but I'm having difficulty finding an NZ supplier of the chemicals so thought I'd ask here if anyone knows where I could source…

Curious if anyone else has used entourage and how they've found it.

Yeah, I went to it when I moved to a Mac mostly because I needed my 10 odd years of Outllook correspondence at hand when I was working. I don't mind it but it's a curiously neutered version…

if you have to have a computer to organise your life do you really have one?

One of the issues I've lived with over the years is a lack of short term memory. When I was in corporate land, I used PIMs (allied with a PDA) to remind me of…

Emails, calendar, contacts, to do lists etc.

Curious if anyone else has used entourage and…

(try getting rid of that accidentally visited pron site glaring at the first person that fires up Chrome in the morning)

I realise I'm going to sound totally dodgy but Chrome has a great incognito mode (Ctrl-Shift-N to open a new window) which doesn't save any browser/search history and doesn't…

I even have Gmail running in pine on one of my debian boxen.

So what? I have Simfest operating at full schtlup on top of my ratatouille.

accidentally visited pron site

Accidentally?

If I were looking for a good setup today I would be going for Google Chrome and Evolution for windows. I already use Evo. on my Linux box an am quit impressed, Outlook look out.

I don't use an email client for any of my…

As for Chrome, maybe I'll give it another go on my home machine, although it's useless in the enterprise – it doesn't remember how to log onto a proxy between sessions, for a…

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) – applications like GMail and Google Docs that run various forms of editor and the like in the local browser.

This wasn't really anticipated when Javascript was invented.

I guess not, but still, I'm doing pretty much exactly what GMail does, using AJAX for my…

You;ll be needing the free Windows Media components for QuickTime. Works perfectly.

Thanks for that tip Russell. It does work and so I can now watch those Foo videos. Might be good to have that tip somewhere on the Media 7 blog.

How on earth do you find stuff in 100 tabs? I find it's getting cluttered over about 5. If I find anything I expect to need to refer to I favourite it (in Google, so I can see it from home/work).

Having the tree-style tabs feature enabled helps a lot;…

Am I the only person that dislikes the Powershop banners? Especially the one with the plugs that seems to capture my cursor with a tractor beam.

I like those ads, both of 'em (I even clicked through and the design of the site is nice too). What I hate hate…

big thumbnails of my 12 most-visited sites

Again an old Opera feature. Configurable. 24 works well, 30 is looming large.

Hmmm...Opera users hippies & weirdos. I would have thought both of those terms were badges of honour to the Mac crowd, especially any from Grafton.

What's the matter Morgan, is the…

No problems with Mail here, but I'm not running any add-ons/hacks. And it is fast...

Right now I have…

No Chrome on the Mac for a while yet, unfortunately.

That strikes me as retarded. Given it's based on webkit, shouldn't it be about the easiest port ever?

Maybe it's something to do with the process per tab thing.

It'll be interesting to see how the two measure up --…

"This is the digital…

(So it'll probably turn out Chrome stole it from Opera. But who uses that besides a few complete weirdos?)

Heh. I did see a blog comment earlier complaining that IT'S ALL STOLEN FROM OPERA AND IT'S JUST NOT FAIR.

Chrome is really good, I'm torn between using Firefox with all…

But then my mail crashed twice in 5 minutes, and then I noticed the macintouch.com page from…

He then pooped on his own aphorism by declaring that Javascript was invented by Sun Microsystems (it came out of Netscape early in the browser wars)

Crikey, confusing Javascript with Java is a really noob mistake.

but I wonder if it'll be so sweet on a Windows PC

If you…

What is it that people are doing with their javascripts that need so much speed?

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) – applications like GMail and Google Docs that run various forms of editor and the like in the local browser.

This wasn't really anticipated when Javascript was invented.

but Snow Leopard is very much announced.

His response was 'we are the last to know'. I thought, yes the very last it seems.

But what I loved was the way you handed your purchase to a blue shirted guy wandering the floor. He ran your card through his handheld…

tried to quiz a supposed Apple tech head about Snow Leopard at the 5th Ave Apple store two weeks back. He claimed complete ignorance of it, never heard of it, which both surprised and bemused me.

How odd. Commenting on unannounced products will get you killed at Apple, but Snow…

Loading ads, mostly.

Ah, that's right, I remember when I used to get those. Fair enough, for those who want the ads to load faster, a fat-arse client is a good thing. And a really fat pipe to the net too.

If only for that endearing wee habit the old man has every time he happens to pop round and just happens to borrow my intertubes for the TAB.

Before he stands up, he closes every single window…

What is it that people are doing with their javascripts that need so much speed?

Loading ads, mostly.

Sometimes I'll open a few more just to get it up to three figures. Impresses the kids.

You're the Yo-Yo-Ma of web browsing.

Leo says: "He's not wasting the internet, he's sitting on it. It's your throne, dad. Because nothing says the internet is your b like having a hundred tabs open."

I honestly don't know where he gets these ideas. The internet, probably.

That and all those disreputable people you keep letting…

Next you'll be telling us that they like your funky middle-aged white man dance moves.

Or best of all, when I start busting some rhymes! But, as I always explain to them, sometimes it's a dad's job to be annoying.

I'm going to translate "impresses" as: "yeah Dad, great, well…

Sometimes I'll open a few more just to get it up to three figures. Impresses the kids.

Next you'll be telling us that they like your funky middle-aged white man dance moves.

I'm going to translate "impresses" as: "yeah Dad, great, well done, you're the bomb. Can we have the…

Do you routinely keep 100 tabs open? Let's explore this.

Sometimes I'll open a few more just to get it up to three figures. Impresses the kids.

The upshot of that kind of use is that I usually had to force-quit Safari 3.

The portents for Snow Leopard are good:…

We'll see how it goes when I have 100 tabs open.

Do you routinely keep 100 tabs open? Let's explore this.

What? You can't leave us hanging like that.

Replacement para:

This works very smoothly on a 2.4GHz iMac, but I wonder if it'll be so sweet on a Windows PC, or an older Mac, especially one with not much memory installed — the beta is presently hogging a lot of…

I can't help but notice that Safari's...

What? You can't leave us hanging like that.

Also, and this is much easier,…