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Walt Mossberg reviews Xobni

at the WSJ
The key points of the software he reviews here, are features that the mail application, that comes built into your Mac already does in wonderful ways. Xobni, is an add on for that application “Outlook” that is default on Windows XP and severely frustrating for many users, and so if one used Outlook, one may use Xobni. Interestingly, most clients of mine have long ago moved to Gmail(if they’re Windows Users or Apple Mail) since both of these provide really fast indexing, sorting, calendar and meeting integration and more.
Mail, the humble program down in the Dock, that looks like a samp has super powers.
It stores unlimited archives of Mail back to years and years ago.
It Indexes emails by Date, Subject, sender, Content and more.
It has data detectors that let you create events from dates mentioned in emails.
It detects addresses in emails and lets you Map them with a single click.
It associates the sender with your Address Book entry for them so you can see their picture, Birthday, Spouse and any Notes you need.
It allows you to create Notes or To-Do items from lines, words or any content inside an email, these To-Do’s go straight into iCal to give you reminders.
This is just the highlights of Mail that I find useful, for more on Mail, there’s Apple’s Page:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail.html
and a wonderful Blog:
http://hawkwings.net/

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iPod Touch

I have a question for you, this weekend I’m purchasing a Mac Notebook and with it comes a free 8 gig iTouch. I have been doing a little research and am a little confused. Does the iTouch have calendar capabilities and is it able to sync with the notebook? I’ve read blogs with people saying it does and others saying it doesn’t. Looking for a little clarification.
The iPod touch is damn cool and does almost everything the iPhone does, bar taking photos and making calls, iCal absolutely syncs with the mac, just like the iphone does, and if you use “mobileme” then it syncs through the air, which is nice.

Notebook never synced (sank?) but thanks to the app store, there are a slew of alternatives for notes, like evernote, or jott, and they sync with the internet or “cloud” and your mac can then sync with the cloud too.

I had thought the mac comes with a 16gb iPod touch, isn’t the rebate good for $299???

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A New Wall.E Trailer

See here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/medium2.html

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Net destruction

These UFO’s are zapping away some of the webs finest sites, see here

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If you’re going to San Francisco…

If you’d like a few tips regards San Francisco, here goes:

You can reserve a Super Shuttle from either of the big airports to wherever you want to go from these guys: http://www.supershuttle.com/ , it’s a really good service and a pretty good way to do the 20/30 min journey.

There are a bunch of interesting and beautiful neighbourhoods in San Francisco, the most famous district is Fishermans Wharf where you can take ferries to Alcatraz or Sausalito (the little bayside village on the north side of the gg bridge).

Haight Ashbury is really close to where I live and is the legendary home of the 60’s hippie revolution, it’s full of vintage and funky stores and is quite fun.

Coit Tower, Yerba Buena Island, The Presidio, Golden Gate Bridge, North Beach and Twin Peaks are all nice spots to see and will be super memories, a great way to catch a lot of these in one day is to bike from Fishermans Wharf along the north shore, past the famous Fort Mason and Marina District through Crissy fields and by the Palace of Fine arts as far as Fort Point (a great viewpoint thats just below the Golden Gate Bridge), that would be a one or two hour ride, with plenty of nice places to get Ice Cream along the way, if your legs can take some more, it’s totally worth biking up the trail to the golden gate bridge entrance where you can bike across to the Marin Headlands, there’s a good vista point just beyond the end of the bridge, but for a REALLY awesome view, continue past the vista point and take the first right, go left under the freeway and continue up the hill, it’s absolutely worth it.

Also, remember to see the Cable Cars, Transamerica Building, Vesuvio, The Mission, The Castro, Pacific Heights, the Museum of Modern Art, The De Young, the Conservatory of flowers, phew! I’m out of breath, so better run on, I hope this mail is helpful and wish you good travels!
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco Tour MapChrissy Fields

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WWDC begins June 11

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