My Books
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Man Reader 1.4 Now Available
Read More »Man Reader 1.4 is now available through the Mac App Store.
The new features and fixes are:
- Fix for plain text view not wrapping correctly for odd-sized fonts.
- Fix for HTML text view over-riding font colors that may be invisible.
- Search for missing entry (e.g. g++) no longer requires Enter or Return.
- Better automatic selection of matching entries while searching.
- Fix for animation warning message appearing in Console.
- Status display shows when man page list is being updated.
- Searching inside a page now allows a minimum of 2 characters (was 3), so
flags
e.g. ‘-b’ do not need to be escaped. - Fixed path for Network Utility in tool bar (moved in OS X 10.9).
- More information available about the effects of sand-boxing for this app.
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Email clients for Mac and iOS
Read More »Some people are moving away from email, but for me, it remains the best way to communicate online. I get to keep a record of conversations and the attached files are with the text so I can always see the context.
But I think everyone would agree that Apple have dropped the ball with Mail in OS X Mavericks, and to a lesser extent, in iOS 7.
So I have been on a campaign lately to find an email client that suits my needs. I don't feel that I have found the perfect answer yet, but I am getting there.
The first step was to work out what I really needed in an email client:
- support for IMAP accounts and Gmail accounts
- unified inbox - all accounts shown together
- conversation threading
- support for POP accounts (optional)