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A little bit ago the Thunderbird/Eudora group, Penelope, released Eudora 8.0.0b1.
I downloaded it and was somewhat disappointed. Wait, scratch the word "somewhat" from that last sentence. I was out and out disappointed. Now, I realize this is the first public beta, and the new Eudora still has a long way to go, but... it still has a long way to go, and based on what I saw in the beta, that route will probably not take it to the mail client I am waiting for.
I have been using Eudora for 14 years now. I am now faced with a decision - do I wait for the new Eudora, which may not be what I want it to be, or do I start making the migration over to OS X's Mail.app? Do I go over to another third-party email app instead?
In other news, I finally installed the Safari 3.0 beta. I use Safari as my primary browser (with Camino used as a compatibility backup for sites that break under Safari). So far everything has gone well. I have only used it for an hour or so, but I have not seen any issues yet, and a couple of minor bugs I ran into with the older version seem to be gone.
In addition, I also finally installed iLife '08. I had resisted due to some of the setbacks I had seen in some of the programs I use the most, iMovie and iPhoto. With the new .1 releases of these programs, though, I think at least some of these issues have been resolved.
Besides, I definitely need to start working with these programs more, if for no other reason than I need to learn them for my job. iPhoto is still somewhat bothering me. I cannot quite put my finger on it, but... As someone with almost 17,000 photos stored in iPhoto, distributed among almost 500 events, I am glad to say that viewing events is pretty nice. I thought it would bog a bit on my machine (Core Duo iMac), but it is acceptably quick.
The DVR solution needs some serious work. More on that at a later time, though. In the meantime, know that I recently purchased a Buffalo LinkTheater PC-P3LWG/DVD (as one reviewer stated, "ask for it by name!"). I picked it up cheap, and while I am currently having some issues with it, it might be a part of a better solution.
I downloaded it and was somewhat disappointed. Wait, scratch the word "somewhat" from that last sentence. I was out and out disappointed. Now, I realize this is the first public beta, and the new Eudora still has a long way to go, but... it still has a long way to go, and based on what I saw in the beta, that route will probably not take it to the mail client I am waiting for.
I have been using Eudora for 14 years now. I am now faced with a decision - do I wait for the new Eudora, which may not be what I want it to be, or do I start making the migration over to OS X's Mail.app? Do I go over to another third-party email app instead?
In other news, I finally installed the Safari 3.0 beta. I use Safari as my primary browser (with Camino used as a compatibility backup for sites that break under Safari). So far everything has gone well. I have only used it for an hour or so, but I have not seen any issues yet, and a couple of minor bugs I ran into with the older version seem to be gone.
In addition, I also finally installed iLife '08. I had resisted due to some of the setbacks I had seen in some of the programs I use the most, iMovie and iPhoto. With the new .1 releases of these programs, though, I think at least some of these issues have been resolved.
Besides, I definitely need to start working with these programs more, if for no other reason than I need to learn them for my job. iPhoto is still somewhat bothering me. I cannot quite put my finger on it, but... As someone with almost 17,000 photos stored in iPhoto, distributed among almost 500 events, I am glad to say that viewing events is pretty nice. I thought it would bog a bit on my machine (Core Duo iMac), but it is acceptably quick.
The DVR solution needs some serious work. More on that at a later time, though. In the meantime, know that I recently purchased a Buffalo LinkTheater PC-P3LWG/DVD (as one reviewer stated, "ask for it by name!"). I picked it up cheap, and while I am currently having some issues with it, it might be a part of a better solution.
