Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
MacHeist 3 Just Got Even Better
Wow! I just received a message from MacHeist people – they give away licenses for Delicious Library 2 to everyone who purchased the MacHeist 3 bundle. I bought several days ago, as soon as I learnt about it on Twitter. It includes several great applications I was already considering to buy on my own so I could not resist the temptation and bought the whole bundle for “the insanely low price of $39″.
Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline.com did a great overview of the software packages comprising the bundle.
In my personal opinion, the best applications in the bundle are:
- Acorn – powerful graphics editor, as in “PhotoShop for humans”
- WireTap Studio – the ultimate recording utiltity, as in “podcaster’s dream”
- Picturesque makes your images gorgeous, as in “wow! who did this?”
- PhoneView opens up your iPhone, as in “16GB flash drive”
There are other great applications that I am also excited about – like BoinxTV, a TV studio in your Mac, and Espresso, a fresh new web development tool – but they have not been unlocked yet. Let us wait…
By the way, they say that 25% of all sales goes to charity, and you can even choose which charity organizations your money goes to. It is a great cause – keep up the good work, guys!
Anyway, I am blown away by the Delicious Library 2 deal – it feels like getting that shiny new toy you were dreaming of the whole year under the Christmas tree in your childhood. Wow!
Quick – only 4 days left! Go get your copy now.
Hacked iPhone Apps
A short demo of hacked iPhone running several third-party apps: e-book reader, game, IM client. Very promising!
Mac Web Browsers
Interestingly but Mac OS X platform has much more web browsers than I have ever used on Windows.
Let us see – on Windows I used Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox and Opera. Well, there are some other, less-known ones but I have never used them.
Now, on Mac I have used Safari, OmniWeb, Firefox, Camino, Flock, Opera and Shiira. Wow!
Bug in Nokia E61i SMTP Client Software
I was troubleshooting a strange problem recently. A brand new Nokia E61i smartphone could receive but not send any e-mail. The server configuration has not changed and other mail clients are working fine, so it must be the server.
It is very basic and straightforward configuration – a FreeBSD server running Qmail with SPAMCONTROL patch as SMTP server and BincIMAP as IMAP4 server. This configuration worked perfectly until the client asked to add this shiny new Nokia phone to the mix.
Receiving e-mail via IMAP4 did not pose any problems – it just worked (sans the self-signed SSL certificate which I figured out later) but sending mail via SMTP protocol just did not work at all.
