Posts Tagged ‘macintosh’

Six Spam Filters for your Mac

Joe Kissell at EarthWeb.com has put together a good list of 6 programs Mac users can get to know if spam is becoming a problem.
1) Em@ilCRX

Price: $30

Pros: Blacklist, whitelist, regular expression matching; image spam filtering; several other filtering options.
Cons: No Bayesian filter; no IMAP support; no direct integration with email clients; cluttered interface; poor documentation.

2) JunkMatcher

Price: Free (donations accepted)

Pros: Bayesian filter; regular expressions; wide variety… » Continue

April 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: mac, macintosh, spam | 2 comments»

Tabbed Browsing on your Mac Desktop

Here’s an interesting Apple app for your Mac. Sticky Windows 2.0 allows you to drag any window, like iTunes or your browser window, to the edge of the screen where it will turn into a small tab.

When you hit a tab, the window will restore to it’s original position. Sticky Windows is a shareware program by Donelleschi Software that runs on Mac OS X Tiger.

Sticky Windows 2.0

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April 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: apple, mac, macintosh, software | 6 comments»

Backup Your Macintosh

The Sitening blog has a tutorial on how to backup your Mac intelligently. It’s well considered and goes through steps, what to expect, and some of the tricks you might encounter along the way.

Last week Jon wrote about the horrifying experience everyone eventually has to deal with - data loss. His wife’s hard drive failed - and without a current backup to rely upon - he went through two… » Continue

May 26 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backup, computers, dataprotection, howto, mac, macintosh, sitening | 3 comments»