We put two of Apple ’s hot new products — the AirPort Express and the Click Wheel iPod — on the concealment , and what do lector want to verbalize about ? E - mail clients , of course . Macworldreaders exhibit the same trueness to their e - mail client ( as well as their browsers , their Holy Scripture C.P.U. , and pretty much every other piece of ironware and software they own ) that other family earmark for football teams and presidential candidates — and woe betide the editor who questions that cultism .
Mail about E-mail
Andrew LaurenceThe “ E - chain armour Survival Guide ” ( October 2004 ) neglects to mention a critical level in Eudora ’s favour : manual filter , execute by a key command . While automatic filters can cause mail to slue your attention , manual filters are double-dyed for quickly dealing with messages that must be read .
Bill Ganon ( Vice President , Eudora Products Group , Qualcomm)Your decision to exclude Eudora from your list of alternative e - mail client , because of what you assure as deficiency , is troubling — especially when you deal the long chronicle of favorable reviews Eudora has earn fromMacworld .
I ’d like to react to a few of your specific literary criticism . In terms of display HTML messages , we design on render drug user much skilful HTML manipulation in Eudora 6.3 for Mac , scheduled for release in spring 2005 . As for Eudora ’s “ circumscribed filtering options , ” we ’ve find that the vast legal age of substance abuser create filters with only one term . And while AppleScript living is important to some , it is unknown to the immense legal age of Mac users .
Finally , you recommend Mailsmith for might users , but I ’d query that testimonial , give that syllabus ’s want of IMAP or LDAP accompaniment — something our power substance abuser have been demanding . To that point , IMAP betterment have already been made in Eudora 6.2 , and more are on the manner .
Parrish S. KnightI enjoyed your “ E - mail service Survival Guide . ” A input about Apple Mail and spam : Once you ’ve get under one’s skin the Junk Mail filter well trained , you may not have to turn off the “ Display image and embedded target in hypertext mark-up language ” messages . If a content is flag as spam , Mail turn down to load images in that content unless you tell it to do so — therefore , unless junk e-mail manages to get past the filter , bug are automatically defeat . My false negative are now low enough that I go away “ Display images ” on .
K. ThorneFor a variety of technical intellect , Apple ’s Mail syllabus does n’t work for me . Eudora does , but I line up it inimical and older - fashioned looking . In Canada , Microsoft Entourage is useable only as part of the Office retinue , and I do n’t ask Word , Excel , and so on . lastly , I foundGyazMail . It looks like Mail , run with Apple ’s Address Book , solves my ISP compatibility yield , is endlessly customizable and inexpensive ( $ 18 ) , and seamlessly integrate with SpamSieve . You also get tight , helpful response from the author ; in fact , I e - mailed the author about a twosome of thing I wanted to see in the broadcast , and he implemented some of them in the next release . What other app would provide that kind of service ?
Konfabulations
Sean RoseIn “ Developer Two - tone ” ( Mac Beat , October 2004 ) , the writer signal out — correctly , I think — that many atomic number 8 features ( such as a TCP / IP stack ) are natural evolutions ; they become part of the OS out of necessity . But the article failed to mention another significant issue : Why did n’t Apple just buy Konfabulator ? ( Or Watson ? ) It could have halt the Windows port wine and would have enjoyed a positive public relations twirl . Whatever the cost would have been , I ’m sure it would ’ve been less than the negative impact Dashboard has had on OS X developers .
Ed FochlerRegarding the arguing about Konfabulator : While I hold that Apple could be a better citizen by either buying compete technology or giving credit to those fine developer for having the right idea , if you ’re charging extra for what Apple gives away for detached , you are n’t benefiting users . If you give your product away for free but Apple decides to supersede you with a free product of its own , then drug user benefit and you do n’t have to defend your product . In curt , the Malva sylvestris has moved . Move after it . If you choose to whine after your high mallow , that ’s up to you , but keep it to yourself .
Acrobat, Begone!
Lynn JenkinsI have one affair to say about your tip for banishing Acrobat from Microsoft Office ( “ 7 PDF Power Moves,”Working Mac , October 2004 ): Yahoo ! I expend an hour one day seek to figure out how to get rid of that irritating ( and useless ) lineament , without success . give thanks you for the answer .
Ed VolchokIn “ 7 PDF Power motion , ” your advice in tip 5 ( for removing the Acrobat PDF toolbar from Office apps ) does n’t act upon . I ’ve trashed PDFMaker.dot , PDFMaker.xla , and PDFMaker.ppa , and the toolbars disappear . But when I reboot the computer and plunge Word , Excel , or PowerPoint , the toolbars are back . How do you drive a stake into the heart of these toolbars ? I use Office 2004 and OS X 10.3.5 .
alas , this peak applies only to Office v. X , not to Office 2004 . You might try renaming the Startup booklet in your Microsoft Office : billet booklet — but this is n’t an idealistic solution . Doing so will disable all Office inauguration items , not just PDFMaker.—Ed .
Sharp-Eyed Readers
Bill WilcoxYou did a nice job with the October concealment photo . There it is in all its resplendency , an Apple iPod playing “ Revolution ” by the Beatles . give the litigious relationship between Apple Computer and Apple Records , was this your elbow room of impart Apple Records a digital poke in the centre ? Who knows , maybe one 24-hour interval Apple Records will get in touch with digital reality and settle the “ music thing ” with Apple Computer .
We intended no pigeon berry in the oculus . “ Revolution ” is simply an appropriately titled Song dynasty by a well - have a go at it band.—Ed .
Nadrell EvansI’d care to know where I can purchase the tabular array exhibit in “ Macworld ’s $ 6,000 Challenge ” ( August 2004 ) , the I holding the product that Adam C. Engst and Christopher Breen chose . Both board look to be wall mount , but the word-painting could be deceiving .
You ’re right about one thing : pictures can be deceiving . As realistic as those tables calculate , they ’re illustrations ( created by John Kocon).—Ed .
FileMaker’s Flaw
Michael YoungFileMaker Pro 7 (; Reviews , October 2004 ) continues the long telephone line of good FileMaker Pro product , but it ’s still missing one simple feature that users have been quest for years , something William Porter even note in his review : “ FileMaker Pro still ca n’t trigger a script mechanically when the substance abuser exits a field . ” I should not have to corrupt a third - party plug - in to implement this feature article , which competing products have had for many year .
