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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...
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...
Postbox: New Heavyweight Email Contender
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Jan 20th, 2009 | 0 comments
Shortly before Christmas, I learned of Postbox, a new cross-platform email application from Postbox, Inc. The new email client is being developed by Scott MacGregor and Sherman Dickman – both men having an extensive background at Mozilla.
According to CrunchBase, Scott MacGregor was “a lead engineer at Mozilla Corporation,” and Sherman Dickman was “Director of Product Management at Mozilla Corporation” where he “oversaw market and customer research, analytics and metrics.” Suffice it to say, these guys know something about building an email...
Download The Hit List Public Preview Today
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Jan 9th, 2009 | 2 comments
Andy Kim, of Potion Factory, has announced that The Hit List is available for everybody as a free download for a public preview. You can download the pre-release version from the Potion Factory blog.The version number is 0.9.2, inching ever closer to a 1.0 release. The Hit List is free to use as a beta/pre-release product, but will cost $69.95 when it goes 1.0. If you buy before 1.0 arrives, Potion Factory is offering a $20 discount, allowing you to license the GTD app for $49.95. As of yet, there is no official word as to when version 1.0 will ship. On Christmas Day, Andy Kim stated:
The Hit List...
Things 1.0 Release Candidate Available
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Dec 30th, 2008 | 1 comment
For those of you waiting for Things, the beautiful task management/GTD app for the Mac, to be released next week at Macworld, you can get your hands on the version 1.0 release candidate now by going to their website. According to Cultured Code:
The Release Candidate is almost identical to the final version that will be released in a week. In addition to bugfixes and performance improvements, it includes some of the most requested features of the past months: global search, filtering by due date, and now also a restructured Today list.
Things retails for $49.95, but can be purchased for $39.95 by using...
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