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8 More Google Wave Invites

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Dec 4th, 2009 | 11 comments
Howdy Folks, I’ve got 8 more Google Wave invites. I ran out pretty quickly last week. If you want one, go ahead and leave a comment, email me, twitter me, facebook me, whatever. I’ll let you know when I’m...
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Happy Black Friday, 8 Google Wave Invites For You

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Nov 27th, 2009 | 7 comments
Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. This Black Friday afternoon, the Googles blessed me with 8 Google Wave invites. The first 8 people to leave a comment with the email address you’d like me to send the invitation to will get the invites. Feel free to mask your email address to prevent it from being easily scraped, such as: “adam [at] esquiremac [dot] com.” If you miss out on my invites, you may want to check out Lifehacker’s Google Wave Invite Donation threads. Google says the invites will not be sent out immediately, but I got mine within 24 hours of when I was invited,...
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Herald Bumps Apple Mail Notification Up A Notch

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Tweaks on Nov 26th, 2009 | 1 comment
Herald, by Erik Hinterbichler, is a powerful yet lightweight email notification plugin for Apple’s Mail.app. Last year, I posted about another excellent email notification plugin for Apple Mail called mail.appetizer. The reason I say that “Herald bumps Apple mail notification up a notch” is because Herald takes the idea first implemented by mail.appetizer and adds some nice improvements. In fact, Erik Hinterbichler freely admits that Herald is “[i]nspired by the excellent Mail.appetizer plugin.” Herald improves upon Mail.appetizer in a few ways. Herald allows you to...
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Practice Tip: Record Audio While Taking Notes

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Feb 15th, 2009 | 8 comments
Audio Notes in Microsoft Word It’s not often that I have something nice to say about Microsoft. That said, Microsoft Word is a pretty top-notch product, if a bit expensive. While I have pretty much abandoned Excel for Numbers, Microsoft Word is still my work horse for drafting correspondence and pleadings. I don’t use anything else in the Office suite of applications; and until Pages enables you to set the default document format as .doc, I will continue to use Word for my law firm documents because, like it or not, the rest of the world uses Word, and therefore .doc. (I will refrain from...
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Download Postbox Today: Open Beta

Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Feb 10th, 2009 | 0 comments
Recently, I posted a review of Postbox, a new email client for Mac and Windows that is based on Mozilla, like Thunderbird. Until yesterday, the application was in private beta. Now, you can go to http://postbox-inc.com/ and download the beta version to try for yourself. If my review wasn’t enough to satisfy your curiosities, check out these reviews below from (arguably) more qualified sources: TUAW First Look: Postbox Public Beta – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Postbox competes with Thunderbird using Mozilla code | Webware – CNET Downloads: Postbox Collects and Organizes Your...
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