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Hotmail, Yahoo and Lion’s mail 26 Jul 2011 | 07:07 pm
Mail.app users with Hotmail or Yahoo Mail accounts have long had to use third-party plugins to get hold of their emails. MacFreePOPs is one such utility that is already Lion-compatible and supports a...
Turning off Lion Mail’s animated windows 26 Jul 2011 | 06:32 pm
Lion’s mail.app animates its windows. When you open a new message or reply to an existing one, the window “zooms out” to greet you. I can hardly see this on my 27″ iMac, but it is noticable on my Mac...
Un-skinning Lion’s iCal 24 Jul 2011 | 07:04 pm
One of the unpleasant surprises in Lion (for me) was the new look given to iCal and Address Book. What were they thinking? Luckily, lots of other people feel the same way, and it didn’t long for hack...
Make your own Stationery for mail.app 14 Jul 2010 | 07:42 pm
James Dempsey has updated his tutorial on how to create your own fancy stationery in mail.app for Snow Leopard. First posted in 2007, he has updated it to make sure that nothing got broken in the las...
mail.appetizer beta now works with 10.6.4 11 Jul 2010 | 11:04 am
Speaking of notification utilities, Stefan Schüßler is actively at work updating his popular (and beautiful) mail.appetizer plugin for mail.app. The most recent development build (150) works with 10....
Notify plugin: New features, 30% discount 11 Jul 2010 | 10:34 am
The email notification utility Notify has just been updated. The new release comes with a slew of new features, including keyboard shortcuts, the ability to grab photos from Address Book for its Grow...
Mail.app’s disappearing POP mail trick 8 Jul 2010 | 12:13 am
David Buxton at Reliably Broken has written a good explanation of the way Apple Mail treats email in POP and IMAP accounts, contrasting it (at the end) with the way Entourage handles each protocol. A...
Rocketbox: Super fast, super smart mail.app searching 6 Jul 2010 | 10:27 pm
Spotlight searching in Apple Mail is pretty good, but what if it could be even better? Rocketbox is the plugin that delivers that wish — lightning fast, very smart searching, above and beyond what Sp...
Huzzah! Hawk Wings serves 5 million pages 6 Jul 2010 | 10:23 pm
I’m sorry for the lapse in taste, but I can’t help myself. This morning at 6.05 am, Hawk Wings served its 5 millionth page to the world. At least, that’s the total Mint has cranked up since I instal...
iDeskCal: Easy calendars on your Desktop 5 Jul 2010 | 11:21 pm
Long-time Hawk Wings readers will remember the iCalViewer app that places a streaming calendar on your Desktop. I discover that it’s still going strong . For USD 11 it will stream calendars and upco...
