Friday, December 23, 2011
Yesterday I wrote about Postbox 3 as a Mail.app replacement. I’m still using it, and liking it, but I’m starting to develop a good sense of where it still has rough edges; Alert sounds. Sometimes it plays the alert sound for no discernible reason (I think because new mail has arrived in a sub-label/sub-folder, but [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2011
My regular readers (all two of you) will know that I frequently thrash about looking for an Apple Mail.app replacement. I am a regular and long-term Gmail user. Its search is amazing, the filters powerful (although lacking a filter-power-user feature to help manage the dozens of filters I have actively running) and I quite like [...]
Filed in apps, design, Mac OS X, reviews
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Tagged apple, elm, email, gmail, google, google mail, icloud, imap, lion, mac, mac software, macintosh, mail, mail.app, mailplane, mutt, thunderbird
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
WARNING: Contains Politics and Religion. See this link to my history blog, On Christopher Hitchens (inlustre monumentum est)
This is why I don’t trust off-shoring of aircraft maintenance. The same reason that poisonous substitutions are made in toothpaste or cheap lead paint used on a children’s toy; it’s the whole idea of taking something based in complex skills and knowledge-based engineering and buying on price, which ends up in a business environment like [...]
Filed in business, engineering, professional practice, rants
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Tagged aeronautical engineering, aircraft maintenance, business, engineering, maintenance, management, methodology, offshoring, outsourcing, process improvement, qantas take note, quality, transformation
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