15
Jan

Philmug’s new look

Philmug's new look

Philmug revamped its appearance 2 days ago

I’ve been a member of Philmug even before I got my mac (and I don’t own an ipod to justify joining philmug before getting anita).

 

The community has shown resilience and strength over the years even though the forum design and backend has become dated over time.

A few days ago, Philmug got a facelift! It now looks and emulates the feel of the modified aqua/platinum GUI theme of Mac OS X: 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard. The vBulletin was also supposedly upgraded which is always good.

One thing I find annoying though is how the forums keep asking me to retype a captcha image each time I search. This is somehow ok I guess since I don’t get the usual parse errors I normally get when searching.

09
Jan

Why use POP or IMAP email clients

One thing I loved about Anita (the name I gave to my mac’s sentience) when I got her is the simplicity and easy access of an email client. I’ve been using email clients since before I switched to a mac since I found it handy when I needed to refer to emails for certain instructions or notes from friends about different things even though we didn’t use the internet as heavily in high school as I do now in college.

I’ve gone through Netscape Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird (my favorite PC mail client so far) and now I use Mail (the pre-installed mail application in mac os x). One thing I can conclude so far is that I cannot live without an email client application.

Though the trend in technology is switching to doing everything on the web (including email accessed from browsers we know as webmail ex. Gmail). I still find the usefulness of email clients to be undeniable specially when you live in the Philippines where wifi access isn’t always possible. This is even more useful if your in school doing a lot of org work/ group work or you work in a field that needs fast information decimation. Read the rest of this entry »