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Sun, 14 Dec 2003

Mail vs. Entourage

A current article at MacSlash compares Mail.app with Entourage, and Geekable.com calls Mail.app a "crappy toy". Here's why Mail.app has been my choice since 10.2.

Although I own MS Office, I always find myself going back to Mail. My biggest dislike with Entourage is that it uses a proprietary database format and its mail databases are huge. I've had Entourage's database get corrupted on several occasions, but thankfully I've always managed to recover it. Mail.app, on the other hand, uses standard Unix MBOX files.


Mail also has the best spam filtering I've seen. I find that it almost never falsely identifies legitimate email as spam, and when it misses a piece of spam, it will learn when I mark it as junk.


The best thing about Mail is its integration with other applications such as the addressbook & iChat. Although Entourage has its own address book & calendar, I prefer using Addressbook & iCal since I can synchronize them with my phone, iPod, Handspring Visor, as well as between my Macs using iSync.


Mail.app also handles multiple addresses better than any other email program. With everything else, you need to create a separate account for each email address, which can be a pain if you have several different addresses forwarded to a single mailbox. With Mail, you simply list all of the addresses associated with the account separated by commas.


The one drawback of mail is that it slows down when there are a lot of messages in a mailbox. For a while I was using Eudora to archive my email, but I'm now using a local IMAP server to store my email when I move it off my mail account.

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iCash 1.4.3

Maxprog is proud to present a new release of iCash, new version 1.4.3, available now in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese on Maxprog website with several interesting improvements, new features and bug fixes.

iCash is an easy-to-use, full featured and multi-purpose software intended to control your personal finances, keeping track of incomes, expenses, credits, debts and Banks transactions for you.



As simple as creating the accounts you need and move money between them! You don't even need to know about accounting or even care about it!



iCash can serve several small accounting needs for either private users, or clubs, associations, self-employed, small businesses or simply to be used at home, making keeping track of incomes, expenses and Banks transactions a snap. With a few clicks you can begin creating accounts and making transactions in minutes.



What's new:



- Transaction input auto-complete using recent transactions data.

- Balance report for a given date.

- Account statement report for Debts, Portfolio and Assets as well.

- Transaction comments included in statement report.

- Transaction panel year can be changed manually.

- Account statement report Payment and Income titles changed to Debit and Credit.



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WWDC 2004 Dates Announced

Apple has announced the dates for their 2004 Worldwide Developers Conference. It will take place June 28-July 2 in San Francisco at Moscone West Convention Center.

The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference (ADHOC), formerly known as MacHack, will take place July 21-24. This year's sudden date change for WWDC put a damper on MacHack, so the new dates were picked to avoid a repeat next year.

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