“What do you get when you put up to 2GHz of pure Intel Core Duo power, an iSight camera, Front Row, iLife ’06, and a 13-inch glossy widescreen display into a sleek case? More than you thought possible for less than you thought possible. Meet MacBook, starting at $1099.”
The biggest surprise appears to be the Intel Core Duo and the minimum 13″ screen. Mmmmm want one!
The two shows that really get my attention every year are E3 and South by Southwest (SXSW). SXSW brings together the most creative minds of the web for panels, keynotes and speeches – good excuse for a bit of a party too. For those who didn’t make it, including myself, they have released the podcasts for this year’s event on their website.
Saved Search is a feature introduced back in version 0.9 of Thunderbird and offers further customisation and can increase productivity. Much the same as Smart Folders in Outlook, Saved Search allows you to really customise your Thunderbird experience by saving searches that you regularly do. Drilling down to the finest details and save these for future use, the real advantage of this system is they work in the same way as individual folders that you set up, yet keep the mail in the Inbox or original folder.
Well almost, you may remember a while back I talked about a complete redesign of the Wordpress admin panel that has been codenamed ‘Shuttle‘. The team seem to have been working on this for ever and from the pictures it’s gonna be a big improvement on the standard set up at the moment. The hard work, sweat and toil appears to have paid off and the design is now (Photoshop) complete, though my understanding is that there is still some way to go implementing the code. Check out the pictures on Khaled’s Broken Kode.
In part 2 of this thrilling (well at least helpful?) series on Thunderbird I am going to cover Message filters. These should be the stable diet of any discerning person who receives more than a couple emails a day, hell I seem to get 10x that in spam – but that’s for another day.
Filtering is an effective way to manage your email. Whether separating your work email from your personal mail, your eBay messages from your (genuine) bank messages or your DVD rentals from your squash club newsletter, filters can be used to manage your time more effectively. By setting up message filters in Thunderbird you can automatically organise, file and sort your incoming mail in many different ways. Fortunately filters are also quick and easy to setup in Thunderbird.
