Mailboxer 5.0: Smart mailboxes for everyone
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Sven-S. Porst has updated his Mailboxer utility, which quickly creates smart mailboxes in Mail.app to match all the emails to and from contacts in your Address Book. It now comes with options to create smart mailboxes for a particular Address Book Group or for all your contacts, French and German localisations and the ability to enter a customised name for the top-level smart mailbox created in the process.
This series of articles will present an overview of graphical toolkits for Apple's OS X. OS X is a modern POSIX-compatible operating system with arguably the best human-computer interface ever created. But there are other GUI toolkits available aside from Apple's set of tools, and a number of good reasons to use them together with the famed Apple interface. For example, you may want to bring a UNIX or Linux application to OS X.
Ed Finkler writes: "Let's get this out of the way immediately: despite the "2.0" number attached to this release, and despite the two previous beta releases, Shiira 2.0 is not a finished product. It's not even a late beta. It feels more like a late alpha: while it's not terribly "buggy" in the sense that things go wonky or break a lot, there are numerous features that just don't work."
Apple is slowly publicizing some of Mac OS X Leopard's underlying features, most recently providing developers with an explanation of how the operating system's expanded Instant Message framework will allow them to access iChat 4.0 features from within their applications.
Have you ever wanted a custom icon for a hard drive or folder? It is easy to do, even if you can’t make an icon from scratch.
Apple published Security Update 2007-004 for both Mac OS X v10.4.9 and Mac OS X v10.3.9. It’s available for download from Apple’s Web site as well as through the Software Update system preference. Among other things, this update fixes AirPort, fetchmail, ftpd, Kerberos and SMB.
Some TextMate automations interact with the user via GUI dialog boxes they display. Others show the user a web page with links that can trigger actions. We will take the road less traveled, though, and ask TextMate to respond to normal typing operations, 
One nice thing about Mail is the Redirect feature, which lets you forward mail to a particular address so that it does not appear to have been forwarded from you. The final recipient sees the message just as you did when it arrived in your inbox.
Few corporations are likely to ban iPods in the workplace, but whether Apple and other manufacturers of MP3 players shoulder some responsibility to add security to their devices - and how effective that security would be – is a growing debate.
Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A410 to third-party developers late last week arrived on the heals of the company's announcement that Leopard's release would be delayed until October. While many changes are contained in this build, many bugs remain. Here are some visuals.
Apple issued the following statement: "The iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
Work on Apple's next major operating system continues to plod along with the release of a new build of Leopard to developers this week.
Those considering setting up a Windows partition on a Mac using the test version of Apple's Boot Camp might want to 
There may come a time when you have to bid a fond farewell to an old computer. Perhaps it just doesn’t have enough processing power or drive space to cut it as a message center or a backup server. Or maybe your small living area can’t hold yet another machine. Whether you want to sell it, donate it, or simply recycle it, you should take steps to protect yourself and the environment.
With GarageBand, you can create your own music, whether or not you play an instrument. Use your imagination to choose, combine, and arrange prerecorded pieces of music called loops to make your own composition. GarageBand includes a loop browser that lets you try out, or "audition," loops and a timeline where you can arrange loops into a song.
Let’s say you’re reading an article online, and you read a sentence that you want to email to a friend. Don’t do the copy-and-paste thing. Instead, just highlight the text and drag-and-drop it right on the Mail icon in the Dock. It will open Mail and put that sentence into a new mail message.
Mac software is usually distributed in a way that encourages simple drag-and-drop installation. Uninstallation in such cases requires dragging the same file to the Trash. Google doesn’t use such a simple method nor does it use Apple’s standard installer. 
Independent UK developer Ben Bird has upgraded his video surveillance system for Mac users, SecuritySpy. The system offers powerful video surveillance features for Mac users aiming to protect their home or business – motion detection, real-time compression and network video streaming.
There are two huge advantages to off-site backup on a server. First, if something catastrophic happens, like a fire or theft, I need to have my critical files stored in some other location. Secondly, it enables you to access those critical files from any computer, anywhere. This tutorial has a pretty high geek rating - it requires you to use some programs you might not be familiar with, like Terminal, and the Applescript Editor. It’s written to be understood by casual computer users.
Many of you would love to take your Internet access with you as you travel on family vacation or spring break; for others, terrestrial broadband (cable modem or DSL) is unavailable or prohibitively expensive at your fixed location. Good news for all: the choices on the wireless access front are better than ever before. 
Mac users have more browsers to choose from then any other platform. The question is, which one delivers the most performance? Last year we tested four of the most popular browsers and found that OmniWeb (which uses a tweaked version of Apple’s WebCore engine) and the WebKit nightly build more or less tied on the test suite.
