Letters: New Mac Mail Client Started By Top Mac Devs

After years of frustration and joking about making a $500 commercial e-mail client for Mac OS X, developer Brent Simmons sounded a call late last week to create an alternate to Apple’s Mail as an open source project. That call has been resoundingly answered by a sizable group of independent Mac devs

iStat Menus Review

System monitors are dime a dozen for all operating systems. But iStat Menus is a cut apart. In breadth and polish, it is miles ahead of every system monitor out there in every platform. And what’s more: It is free

Stop Spamming Me Picsquare!

Nothing annoys me more than unsolicited emails. A lot of websites trick you into subscribing for their email newsletters while signing up by leaving the “Subscribe to our newletter” checkbox checked by default. I take care to uncheck these before signing up for any service. But picsquare goes one step further. There is no checkbox and if you agree to the Terms and Conditions you are automatically subscribed to the newsletter.

iPhone: Simplenote Review

The biggest downside of the default Notes application in iPhone is that you cannot view or edit the notes outside of the phone if you don’t use Mail. A plethora of Notes applications is available on the app store to plug this gap. Among them Simplenote stands out for its elegant design, narrow focus and splendid executio

Apple Tablet Predictions

The January 27th Apple event will most likely see the introduction of Apple table according to many sources. I’m throwing my hat into the ring with these predictions :)

Mac Chrome Gets Task Manager

Mac chrome development has picked up steam after the holidays and Google has pushed out another dev-channel update. This update brings with it a brand new Task Manager, several bug fixes and a more capable Bookmark manager.

Using Reliance Netconnect on Mac OS X Leopard

Among the wireless broadband providers in India, reliance netconnect is currently the best option with wide coverage, good prepaid plans and decent speeds. The modem provided is the Huawei EC 1260 which has native support on Mac OS X (Leopard) and is plug and play.

Firefox 3.6 vs Chrome vs Safari – Javascript Performance

Firefox 3.6 brings with it an updated javascript core, which tries to bridge the performance gap between Firefox and Chrome/Safari. As usual, Firefox performance on the v8 benchmark is pathetic where Chrome is more than 10 times faster.It is 24% faster than version 3.5.4 in V8 but it is clearly not enough. In the sunspider test, chrome is 2 times as fast as firefox. In this test, 3.6 is 17% faster than 3.5.4. Safari too comfortably beats Firefox in both these benchmarks

Apple Revamps Trailers Page

For long, Apple has made only incremental improvements to the trailers pages. Though it was designed well, it was a little bland for a product as dynamic as movies, with little difference between the different movie pages. That has changed. Apple has been slowly adding trailers page which incorporate large posters of the movie. The most welcome addition is the ability to download the trailers directly without going via iTunes.

Mac Chrome Gets A Bookmark Manager & Other Goodies

After a long wait, googlers have finally given the mac chrome users a bookmark manager. To see it in action you need the latest google chrome dev channel version (4.0.295.0). This is just an initial version of the bookmark manager and hence the functionality is very limited. But the functionality which is available now seems sufficient to manage a small bookmarks collection.

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