Web Marketing Strategy Update

I’ve finally made the move over from Eudora to Mac OS X’s built-in Mail application.

I put it off for a couple of years, but in the end I was getting more and more fed up with Eudora’s “clunkiness” and general operational slowness compared to the rest of the OS (I presume due to it being a legacy Carbon application, as opposed to it being written in Cocoa specifically for OS X). Oh, and Mail looks prettier too!

What finally inspired me to take action was discovering Eudora Mailbox Cleaner, a great little freeware application from Andreas Amann to help import mailboxes and filter rules from Eudora to Mail.app.
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I came across RSS Writer last week via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).

This small freeware application enables webmasters to add RSS feeds to regular HTML websites that don’t have built-in feed support.

You simply enter the site’s details and RSS Writer creates the required XML feed file, ready for you to upload to your website.

Both Mac OS X and Windows compatible.

SiliconBeat: Apple: The Next Generation

If you’re one of those people whose heart starts beating fast at the imminent arrival of a new Apple product, or if you just care about the future of one of the valley’s iconographic tech companies, be sure to tune into the “Apple: The Next Generation” forum hosted by Knight Ridder’s SiliconValley.com. They’ve lined up an all-star cast for the weeklong chat , including Sun’s Tim Bray, Andy Hertzfeld (fomerly of Apple, now with Google), Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter, Daring Fireball’s Jon Gruber (one of our favorite Apple bloggers) and the Merc’s very own Dawn C. Chmielewski and Dean Takahashi. Master of ceremonies is Good Morning Silicon Valley’s John Paczkowski. It should be fun.

Google Blog: Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X
From Greg Miller, Software Engineer

I’m a Mac user. Most of my friends are Mac users. After a little coaxing, most of my family are now Mac users. So I decided to spend 20% of my time here on a small application that may help all of the Mac users in my life: a [Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X->http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/index.html].

The app is small and nonintrusive, but hopefully still has all the features a Mac user would want. With it you can:
- view messages without opening a browser
- open Gmail in your browser without forcing you to log in again
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