Archives for November, 2006
Snap Preview Anywhere Service
Snap: Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting your site to get a glimpse of what other sites you’re linking to, without having to leave your site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to go there, thus eliminating wasted “trips” to linked sites.
Here’s a quick note for the webmasters. If you run a blog, site, whatever, I highly recommend you sign up for the free (as in beer) “Snap Preview Anywhere” service at Snap.com. With just a little bit of JavaScript in the header and footer of your page(s), you can give your visitors a preview of links which lead off-site, while suppressing the feature for local links. It’s relatively fast in generating previews, and the JS does not break the DOM. Nice. Did I mention it’s free?
Looking for Application Recommendations
First of all, a quick note to say the site is wearing yet another new look. It’s somewhat of a work in progress, and will be the basis of my next WP theme. Expect changes…
Now, down to business. I’m calling for reader recommendations on a good IMAP email client. I’ve been using POP with Apple Mail for quite a while, and it’s been good. But I have the need to change to IMAP so I can access my mail from anywhere I choose to set it up, and just don’t find Mail to be “up to snuff” in the IMAP department. So, I’d really like to hear what other readers might be using for their IMAP solutions.
I’ve considered Entourage. In fact, it’s the front runner right now. The only problem is (and this may seem lame), it’s not “Mac” enough for me. It’s still got that old Outlook look and feel and is overly cumbersome. I want a mail client that simply handles mail.
I’ve looked at Mozilla Firebird many times, but have always found it to be a little sluggish (like Firefox), especially on my 1Ghz iBook. Since I won’t be updating hardware anytime soon, speed is a big issue — the app has to be lightweight and fast.
I’ve looked at Eudora too, but it just didn’t feel comfortable with it — though it’s been a while since I did. It might be different now.
Bottom line? I want something like Mail (one window approach), but that does IMAP well (fast and lightweight). Is there even a Mac app out there that fits the bill?
I’d love to hear any and all reader recommendations. Post ‘em in comments (which, by the way, don’t require registration anymore, thanks to some awesome WP plugins that I recently found — more on that in another post — so recommend anonymously if you like).
Yasu 2.0.4 Released
And the new version of Yasu is released. This release fixes a potential AppleScript error when the application quits while still trying to write to the preference file. It’s a recommended update for all users of 2.0.3 or earlier.
New Yasu on the Way
A minor bug was found in the 2.0.3 version of Yasu that would throw an AppleScript error on faster machines when the application would close the main window for restart or shutdown while still trying to write to the preferences file after the maintenance pass had finished.
I’ve been able to track the problem down thanks to the help of Gregor Rittinger and Peter Gillies. A new version has been built and is ready to be released first thing tomorrow morning.
Keep an eye out for it…
