I’ve been using my Gmail account as an IMAP account with Apple Mail for a while now. Mostly, it works well but I’ve always been irritated by the additional mailboxes which are added to Mail’s sidebar as a result. Often they’re out of sync with the Gmail box which sits under Inbox at the top [...]

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Time Machine is easily my favourite Leopard feature. For the first time I have a regular, automatic backup routine that runs in the background and never confronts me with annoying dialogue boxes whinging about how it was unable to back up my data (that’s you Retrospect, that is). Add to that the ease with which [...]

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No matter how fast your Mac was on the day you unwrapped it and took it from its box for the first time, it’s almost certain to be running much more slowly now. If you’re like me, your reaction to the delays in opening applications, downloading email, and sometimes even just typing will range [...]

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I’m a bit behind with my RSS feed skimming, so I’ve only just noticed that Merlin posted these great Mail tips for creating super-useful Smart Mailboxes.
Merlin, they rock
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I use Mac OS X Mail for all my email; work and home. Everything. I’m also very disorganised. The result is an Inbox with close-on 12000 messages in it, many with chunky attachments. This has a huge slowdown effect, not just on Mail itself, but on my Mac as a whole: each message is indexed [...]

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Mac OS X is a hugely powerful beast and most of us rarely do more than scratch the surface. In an attempt to force myself to dig deeper under the hood, and help you get more from OS X, I thought it would be fun every now and again to take a look at some [...]

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