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Move email quickly in Thunderbird

April 29th, 2009 at 8:18 am » Comments (0)

I found an odd thing today. In Thunderbird, my favorite open source email client, when I tried to move large numbers of emails (more than 800) from one folder to ...more »

Mimic Gmail’s New Forgotten Attachment Detector in Thunderbird

March 27th, 2009 at 6:52 am » Comments (1)

If you use Google Mail you may have noticed the Forgotten Attachment Detector on the long list of Lab extras. This feature looks for a keyword like "attached" in your ...more »

Lego Programming

March 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am » Comments (0)

I was on Moobag.com the other day when I ran across this idea "why isn't there a programming language that is completely visual. Like coding with legos." The whole idea is here. What ...more »

MAMP Gave Me a Cramp

January 2nd, 2009 at 8:22 am » Comments (0)

Update: Weeks after giving up on MAMP, I stumbled across the solution. Turns out, ClamXav (open source anti-virus software) was blocking ports 8888 and 8889 by default. I turned it off ...more »

What Mac Lacks

July 19th, 2008 at 12:11 am » Comments (0)

Since I switched full time from Windows XP to Mac OS X 10.5, I have been mostly happy. I was considering a Linux solution as an alternative and I found ...more »

The Top Text Editor

June 6th, 2008 at 8:21 am » Comments (0)

Talking open source here. I'm not comparing anything to some of the decent text editors out there that require you to pull out the credit card, but I've got a ...more »