Some Leopard Notes
With 10.5.1 I’m starting to use Leopard full time. I’m also giving Mail.app another shot as my email client. Some notes…
In Mail.app I’m using the preference to move Junk to its own folder. However as I scan the folder to look for false positives and hit Not Junk it doesn’t move said message to my inbox. Considering I’m basically saying “this is stuff I care about” you’d think it would move it to the Inbox or something.
Similarly, a few days in, Mail.app’s default Junk filter isn’t all that great. I’ll give it some more time though before jumping back to SpamSieve.
I continue to miss my preference from Entourage which would put the insertion point after the quoted message. Mail likes to always put the insertion point at the top and I don’t like top posting.
Cause it doesn’t let you naturally read a message.
Why don’t you like top posting?
As I posted on Twitter, I really don’t like the new grid folder display via the Leopard Dock. In Tiger I kept a few large folders down there, including Applications. Browsing these with the grid isn’t very fast. Thankfully there is a little app out there to replicate the old behavior. Check out Quay if you are in a similar need. Works great, has some nice options and is only ~ $10US.
With my move away from Entourage into Mail.app, I’m also trying to fully embrace Address Book and iCal as well. Once nice little feature of iCal is that you can subscribe to calendars. Apple also makes a bunch of useful calendars available for DVD and Movie releases as well as holidays and sport schedules. For the sport schedules specifically it would be nice if the event was edited to show the final score afterwards. It would also be nice if when you hit “Download” on Apple’s site it would open the subscription in iCal. Right now I just get some Safari media type error and am forced to copy/paste the url myself. Maybe just a server hiccup. Example.
Speaking of iCal, that sure is a nice calendar view in the lower right hand corner. I wish it was a standard control.
Spotlight uses way too much RAM. The other day I noticed it at 150 MB Resident (as in real) RAM and just now it sits at 234 MB. I guess this is one way to speed it up.
I won’t bother typing out why I think the new Dock is worse than the old (been done to death on the blogs), but suffice to say I ran this preference setter almost immediately after installing Leopard.
Anyways, those are some first thoughts on user-end things. As I dig deeper into the new APIs I’ll post more.
Posted on: December 7, 2007 – 3:19 PM
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Mail.app top-posting fix from daringfireball
@Daniel Thanks for the link. Seems like a lot of setup but maybe. First I need to decide if Mail.app will work for me full time. I wish after all these years they’d at least intro a hidden preference for this.
I still use Entourage, and I even bought another copy of Office:2004 on Black Friday ($100 rebate) so I can get Office:2008 for $6.99 S&H via their “Super Suite Deal.”
I sync Entourage with my Address Book, too. And use iCal (disabled Entourage-AB syncing).
@Erik Previously (and for the last few years) I’ve used Entourage version 10 (the one before the current release). I’ve been trying to read about the upcoming 2008 version. Most of what I’ve seen seems to grow the program’s project management stuff which I’m just not interested in. Right now I’m still undecided. We’ll see.
I’m not interested in that stuff either. I still use Entourage - it has good scripting support, it supports labels, I like the way it handles my unified inbox, my signatures, and so on. I like that it doesn’t do “RTF” email and so on.
But you’re right that there’s not much information out there about it.
I don’t use Word often (it’s still good to have around). I never use PowerPoint. I don’t use Excel since getting Numbers.
Some leaked screenshots of 10.5.2 shows a way to turn on the 2D dock anywhere through the UI, as well as a setting for whether to show the top-level icon in a stack as the topmost folder or the documents inside it, and there is also an new stack view, which is just like the old hierarchical menus from Tiger. I look forward to it.
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