Want to buy a Mac in New Zealand?

As I’ve blogged a few weeks ago – Diane and I have converted to using Macbooks (I’m on a MBP, she’s working on a nice 13″ black Macbook). When we were considering our options buying, we were looking into the official Apple resellers which honestly are a rip-off in New Zealand price-wise.
Luckily, after doing a [...]

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Powermail – the end of the story

The other week, I’ve blogged about my struggle to find a mail client on the Mac to suit my needs.
After working with Powermail, I’m pretty happy now. The software is great, works very well for me and I can really recommend it. Apparently a few people who work with particular IMAP server setup have [...]

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Solved: good email client for OS X – PowerMail

The other day I’ve blogged about my struggle to find a well suited email client for Mac OS X.
I’ve decided to give Mail.app another try, but I was heavily disappointed. Although the client is nice it just didn’t work properly to import my huge mailbox files and it took literally minutes to render particular folder [...]

HP Laserjet 1020 on OS X

When we’ve moved to New Zealand in 2005, the amount of luggage/stuff we were taking was limited. At that time, I owned a pretty fancy HP Laserjet 13something printer I was really happy with – due to luggage restrictions, I’ve some sort of parked it with my father-in-law who didn’t mind
I bought a [...]

Wanted: A good email client for OS X

One of the reasons why I’ve been a bit quieter during the last 2-3 weeks is that I’m migrating my work environment from PC to Mac and this is a bit of work because besides playing with my new toy (2.4 GHz MBP, 4 GB RAM) I have to continue being at least a bit [...]