Being the bad friend that I am, I failed to note Michael’s release of SpamSieve 2.0 last week. At least I have the excuse of a new son. 😀
SpamSieve is an awesome app that is effectively killing 90-95% of my daily email spam, and I have had 0–that’s zero–false positives for a good three months or more. Version 2.0 only makes a great product better. Outside of Apple’s Mail.app, it supports practically every major email client for Mac OS X, and tightly integrates with my and Michael’s client of choice, Mailsmith.
SpamSieve is well worth the $25 registration fee, so support a shareware developer who will save you more than $25 of your time each and every day of your online life.
(Too obvious that I’m bucking for an unprecedented 3d quote at C-Command?)
Month: September 2003
So while the gloom of layoffs settled over the IT groups at VIS for the better part of a year, Chuck Lee, the former GTE CEO who sold us out to Bell Atlantic, is still picking up the perks:
bq. Verizon Communication’s former chairman and co-CEO, Charles Lee, became a “consultant” for the firm when he retired last year. In addition to the standard goodies, like office space, a staff, and use of an aircraft, he’s receiving a consulting fee of $250,000 per month. (That’s not a typo.) You’d think after getting paid $4 to $5 million in salary plus bonus over the past few years, and $27 million in options in 2002 alone, he’d have enough to retire on. Guess not.
So I may lose my job, but heaven forbid that Chuck Lee not get to ride around in the corporate jet while he “consults” on where the company can make cuts…
“If we do not have human-intelligence assets in the field, then it’s hard for us to get any kind of warning, unless the bad guys are really loose on how they use their cell phones. But the news media likes to tell people how we track the bad guys, and the bad guys learn from that. The White House staffers, too–they like to tell reporters how smart they are, and they leak data on signals intelligence. You sometimes wonder if they’re stringers for the terrorists, the way they give away code-word-sensitive information.” In reality, the staff pukes were just showing off to the reporters, of course, which was about the only thing they knew how to do.
“So, the rest of the day the newsies will be screaming about ‘another intelligence failure,’ right?”
“Bet on it. The same people who trash the intelligence community will now complain that it can’t do the job–but without acknowledging their own role in crippling it every chance they get. Same thing from Congress, of course…”
—The Teeth of the Tiger (emphasis added)
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The September issue of About This Particular Macintosh is fresh from the oven. Two new staffers join up this month; Mary Tyler begins a series of articles focused on SOHO users, and Ted Goranson delivers a knockout on outliner application history. The usual accoutrements abound.
So Microsoft announced six new wireless optical desktop components, but none of them utilize Bluetooth for connectivity. Rather, one of your USB ports will still be eaten up by the RF receiver.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the freedom from clutter that the older Wireless Desktop Optical Pro keyboard and mouse give me at the office. I would prefer Bluetooth versions of the same for use at home, however.
LSU is ranked #13 in the nation after stomping UL-Monroe 49-7 in their gimme-game season opener in Baton Rouge.
So now TBS is carrying college games on Saturday nights, and they kick off their coverage with LSU taking on Arizona in the desert the night of the 6th. This is good and bad for the Tigers; good that LSU is playing at night, bad that it’s on national television. I suppose in this case it’s a wash, and hopefully the Tigers can take down Arizona in Tuscon. Geaux Tigers!
Speaking of the 12-inch PowerBook G4, the folks at MacSkinz now have skinz available for the smallest PowerBook. I first saw the MacSkinz guys at Macworld Expo, when they had the side panels for desktop G3s and G4s.
Looking through the skinz available for the PowerBook 12″ (yeah, like I still need to get one of those, right?), my favorites include: American Flag, Urban Camouflage, Flames Blue/White, Silver on Blue Flames, and Hibiscus Green. Of the latter, how about some other colors, MacSkinners? I’m partial to blue, in case you couldn’t guess from my other choices. 🙂
Thanks to the fine folks at Trans Intl., the PowerBook G4 12″ can now have more than 1 GB of RAM. This clears up one of the few misgivings I have about the smallest PowerBook.
Unfortunately, going beyond 1 GB in a 12″ PowerBook is going to be a somewhat exclusive club, at least in the beginning: price for the 1 GB DDR memory module is $499.
Now if Apple will just throw in a minimum of a 1 GHz processor, and bump up that video chip and video RAM, I’d be one happy camper…
(via MacMinute)