Recent Apple

• Build your own mail analyzer for Mac Mail.app

  You’ve probably read about things like Xoopit and Xobni for analyzing both online mail and your outlook mail. As it turns out, Apple has done something great in this regard that I think has been mostly overlooked. Mail.app stores all of the meta-data for you email in a file called ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index. [...]

  December 26th, 2008

• Time Machine vs. ZFS + rsync

  Update: I actually got the fslogger thing at the end of this entry working so I can do incremental backups. Not really a product yet but it isn’t hard to do. Here is the super rough version of it.
  I can’t stand inefficiency. Time Machine is fundamentally a very inefficient mechanism for backing [...]

  October 30th, 2008

• Macworld 2008 predictions

  UPDATE 1/13/08: This looks like confirmation of a new ultralight portable with some sort of wireless connectivity.
  Might as well put up my predictions for what will be announced at Macworld this year. I think it will be a good one.

  iMac, Mac Mini, Macbook and Macbook Pro lines upgraded to Penryn processors

  Same prices, better specs

  Ultra [...]

  January 13th, 2008

• Applescript is pretty cool

  Applescript is pretty cool

  October 21st, 2003