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For longer than I care to admit I have been using my mouse, or track pad, to Quicklook Mail.app attachments. Well that stops today. If you have an e-mail with an attachment and want to Quicklook the item don’t reach for the mouse, instead type the Command + Y key. This will Quicklook the attachment just like hitting the space bar does in finder. I hope apple looks at this and changes the Mail.app Quicklook  in Snow leopard but for now this will help keep my fingers on the keyboard and off the mouse.

From MacOSXHints…

This is a pretty simple hint, but if you’re like me, and have a number of templates that you’ve created in Pages, you probably wish they were organized in the Template Chooser, rather than being all displayed together in the My Templates section.

You can create your own sub-grouping under My Templates by navigating to your user’s Library » Application Support » iWork » Pages » Templates folder. Here you will see one folder (My Templates) which contains any templates that you’ve already created. You can create new folders at this level, adjacent to My Templates for your new subgroups. Note that you can’t create folders inside of My Templates; they won’t show up in Pages.

In my case, I created folders for each of the companies I work with, and one Personal folder for my own letters. In each folder, I have Letter.template, Invoice.template, Case Study.template, etc. My Personal folder only contains Letter.template.

After creating the folders, simply move your templates from My Templates into the appropriate new folders. You can/should leave the My Templates folder there, even if it is empty. If you delete it, Pages will re-create it anyway — it’s required because it’s the default location for any new templates you create.

If you want to again see all of your templates in the Template Chooser, just select My Templates from the left-side hierarchy. (Any templates left loose in the Templates folder, however, will not be shown, even when selecting My Templates from the Template Chooser.)

Annoyingly, the My Templates folder is always re-created each time you go to save a new template. Once created, this will then show up as another sub-group My Templates in the Template Chooser.

If you’d like to undo this hint, simply move all your templates back to the folder My Templates inside Templates, then delete all of your now-empty subgroup folders. Next time you open Template Chooser, all of your templates will simply appear under My Templates, and there will no longer be any subgroups (including the annoying My Templates subgroup).

This Tuesday night at 8pm EDT, MacHeist will be revealing the applications for MacHeist 3. Veronica Belmont, Lisa Bettany, and Chris Pirillo will host live coverage of the reveal. If you have been doing the missions you would have already received over 300.00 in applications. To view the live show head over to MacHeist.com on Tuesday March 24th at 8:00 EDT.

Ekero, Sweden – Maintain has announced the release of Cocktail 4.3.2 (Leopard Edition). This version adds clearing of the Inqtana.B worm, fixes an issue with secure deletion of files installed by trojans and worms, addresses an issue in which Adobe Illustrator font caches were not deleted from users home directory, fixes compatibility issues with Safari 4 Public Beta and adds compatibility with the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.7. The update also contains improvements on the clear font caches and clear Internet caches procedures as well as updated Automator actions.

Cocktail 4.3.2 (Leopard Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.3.2 (Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server 10.5 or later and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.5.7.

Cocktail 4.3 (Tiger Edition) for Mac OS X 10.4.x and Cocktail 3.7 (Panther Edition) for Mac OS X 10.3.x are available for download from our website.

Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility for Mac OS X. It is a smooth and powerful digital toolset with a variety of practical features that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions and helps hundreds of thousands of Mac users around the world to get the most out of their computers.

The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. Most of Cocktail’s major features are arranged in five basic categories. In addition, a Pilot lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.

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Maintain develops tailored applications for Mac users. We work towards creating technical solutions which maintain your computer and make it as efficient and easy to use as possible. In addition, we offer comprehensive consultancy and support services which cover everything from operation of existing systems to purchase and implementation of new technical solutions. Among our clients are: Puma, The New York Times, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ericsson, Fortum, The City Of Calgary, Peak Performance, Loreal, Harvard University, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Company, Swedish Film Institute, Weber, ESPN, Midway, Business Week, Swedish National Police Board, Pinnacle Systems, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Stockbyte, University of Texas, South Park Studios.

Orlando, FL – Elixir is happy to announce Espresso theme for RapidWeaver. Espresso is a really flexible theme with a stylish appearance that allows you to showcase your content. Espresso allows you to modify a lot of different areas of your site design through the Page Inspector.

Espresso offers:
* Six header widths
* Six body widths
* Four sidebar variations (left, right, top, hidden)
* Eight built-in stock logos, as well as the RapidWeaver logo placement (found in the site setup)
* Three logo positioning options
* Eighteen professionally design background, including the option to use the color picker
* Twelve horizontal menu styles (Espresso is a split navigation theme)
* Seventeen header stripe variations
* Four header / slogan font choices
* Three body font choices and three body font sizes
* Three sidebar font choices and three sidebar font sizes
* Three blog title font styles

Espresso also makes heavy use of the RapidWeaver color picker. With it you can change the colors for all of the following areas of your site design:
* Site background
* Body font
* Sidebar font
* Sidebar title
* Links
* Sidebar links
* Sidebar background
* Sidebar border
* Site title
* Site slogan
* Blog entry titles
* Sub menu font
* Sub menu background
* Sub menu bar current page
* Sub menu selected current page font
* Sub menu bar hover
* Sub menu bar hover font
* Blockquote background
* Blockquote text
* Footer type
* Footer divider line

Moving into the future
For Espresso’s sidebar and blockquote we’re using a method for rounding the corners that is part of the CSS 3 standard. This is used on many popular sites and services like Twitter and Apple. It provides nice, lightweight, rounded corners and in older browsers that do not support it it degrades gracefully to normal squared off boxes as to not cause problems for your users.

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Elixir is a graphics company located in sunny Orlando, Fl. Elixir consists of a staff of, well, just one. Adam Shiver. Adam is a self-taught designer with over 10 years of professional experience. He has created a variety of award-winning media during his career, including website design, newspaper graphics and layout, icons, online graphics and other print projects. Adam loves coffee and episodes of The Office. If you really want to bribe him, you can get him Amazing Spider-Man comics or something Apple. RapidWeaver, and the RapidWeaver logo are trademarks of Realmac Software Limited.

Cedar Park, Texas – Mobile PDA and Smartphone market leader, WebIS Inc., today announced that it has released its incredibly popular PIM, Pocket Informant, for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Pocket Informant is the premiere Personal Information Manager for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices.

This new release will leverage eight years of mobile experience to bring a fresh perspective to the iPhone user. Version 1.0 offers Agenda, Week, Month, and Day views for the calendar, a Today view, a Tasks view with full GTD capability, Context, Projects, Next Action, Inbox, Search, as well as syncing with Google Calendar and ToodleDo.

“We are very proud to bring our multi-award winning PIM designed for mobile devices to the iPhone platform.” says Alex Kac, founder and CEO WebIS Inc. “We have thousands of people signed up asking to be notified of Pocket Informant’s release on the iPhone. We couldn’t be more excited to be able to release it!”

Pocket Informant was the first full PIM (personal information management) for Windows Mobile in 2000, and listed at number 6 of all sales for WinMobile apps. “We have a long history of creating powerful and easy to use solutions for the mobile professional”. Alex continues. “We are Apple fans here. All of our desktops/laptops are Macs; our servers are XServes; some of us have even worked at Apple. So we know what Mac OS X users like, expect, and deserve.” Pocket Informant for the iPhone is truly focused on making productivity fun and easy, yet focused.

Features Include:
* A calendar built the way an iPhone Calendar should be
* Today, Month, Day, Week, Agenda, Todo, and Search views
* Swipe between Months, Days, and Weeks
* Easily jump to any date in Day and Month views
* Timebars to show your free/busy time at a glance
* Expanded detail view to see events and todos on any day
* Todos integrated in the Calendar Views
* Full Search of Contacts, Todos, and Calendar items
* Send Appointment Meeting Requests
* Getting-Things-Done (GTD) management of Todos
* Franklin Covey ABC/1-99 Prioritization of Todos
* Filters to quickly find active, due, overdue, and completed Todos
* Today View to show your current appointments, Todos and meeting attendees
* Over-the-air syncing with Google Calendar and Toodledo
* Starring/Flagging Todos

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Pocket Informant 1.0 for iPhone is available exclusively through Apple’s App Store at a introductory price of $12.95 (USD).

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Headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas, Web Information Solutions, Inc. is a privately funded Corporation founded in 1997 by Aleksei Kac. WebIS has focused on the Mobile PDA and Smartphone market since August of 2001 and has risen to become one of top ten developers by sales for mobile devices shortly thereafter. With more than 500,000 users on Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and now the iPhone, WebIS has shown expertise, leadership, and vision in the mobile space. For more information on WebIS or Pocket Informant, please visit their website. Copyright 1997-2008 Web Information Solutions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and iPhone are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Corby, United Kingdom – The Dream Apps today released an update to their popular Invoice creation and management application for Mac OS X. Involer allows users to create, print, export and track the status of their invoices within a single, easy to use interface. The latest version also includes many bug fixes and new features and is a recommended free update for all users. The latest update, version 1.2 contains many new features that have been requested in previous versions.

Feature Highlights:
* Added support for company logos.
* You can now add a full client address to Involer.
* Unique invoice numbers are now automatically created.
* More invoice items can now be added to a single invoice.
* New preferences, and an enhanced product registration experience.
* Involer now displays a count of unpaid invoices in the ‘Clients’ sidebar.
* The application toolbar has been optimized.
* Before and after-tax totals are now correctly rounded.
* Added more instructions and manuals.

Pricing and Availability:
The update is available for download from either the built in updater in the application, or from our website and is free for all existing users. The Involer application is still in introductory pricing at $19.99 (USD) and will only remain at that price for a few more weeks. The application can be purchased from our online store.

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Located in Corby, United Kingdom, The Dream is a small software development company founded in 2003 by Christian Owens. Over the years the company has grown from not only designing websites, to creating websites and award winning Macintosh applications. The work done by The Dream is often featured on design inspiration websites and our apps have been featured in magazines such as WebDesigner Magazine, MacFormat and Mac Life. Copyright 2003-2008 The Dream Apps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iSight and Shake are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Jenkintown, PA – Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe premier development partner and a leading provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today announced the release of Page Director(R) Ad Layout System 5.4. Used at more publications worldwide than any other automated page-planning solution, ALS has been optimized for compatibility with Adobe(R) Creative Suite(R) 4. QuarkXPress(R) 8.0 compatibility will be available in the coming weeks.

ALS 5.4 includes a convenient new print designer, which allows users to design and print custom ad dummies, resulting in printouts that conform to each publication’s specific requirements. The release is also packaged with ALS XT for QuarkXPress 7.x and a new version of MEI’s AdImport plug-in that is compatible with Adobe InDesign CS2, CS3 and CS4. These tools augment ALS by allowing users to import dummies and final ad content into QuarkXPress or InDesign editorial pages.

Additionally, ALS 5.4 has been upgraded for connectivity with MEI’s Integrated Production Suite (IPS) 4.5, the sophisticated software package incorporating display and classified ad planning with editorial content across an entire publishing enterprise.

“We’re proud to continue offering new versions of our flagship product with enhancements that help publishers save time and money,” said Steven Haught, vice president of sales at MEI. “More than ever, we are dedicated to delivering efficient, automated systems that improve productivity and reduce operation costs.”

Availability:
Page Director Ad Layout System 5.4 is available now. The upgrade is free for customers in MEI’s Premium Site Support Agreement program. Other customers should call their MEI salesperson for upgrade pricing. For more details, contact MEI at 215-886-5662 or an authorized MEI distributor. More information can be found on Managing Editor Inc.’s Web site.

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Managing Editor Inc. is an industry leader in the development of quality, proven software solutions for the evolving publishing industry. The Page Director Series of Advertising and Classified Layout Systems, K4 Publishing System, Integrated Production Suite (IPS) and IPS AdTrac deliver automated pagination, workflow and digital asset management solutions to newspaper and magazine publishers, as well as to other print and electronic publishing markets. MEI is an Adobe premier development partner and has twice been named a laureate of the Computerworld Smithsonian Collections. Additional information regarding MEI’s products and services can be found on the company’s Web site.

Murfreesboro, Tenn – Pubblog.com announces the release of MailSteward, MailSteward Lite, and MailSteward Pro, version 8.1.1. This version adds the ability to search for only email that has been tagged, or only email that has not been tagged. New video tutorials, produced by Screencasts Online, have been added to the MailSteward web site. There are six videos: Why MailSteward?, Versions and Features, Preparation, Setup and Archiving, Printing, Saving, and Exporting, and Searching.

MailSteward is the ultimate email archiving solution for the Mac. MailSteward archives email in a relational database for easy access and safe backup of all your email. Whether you manage a business, are an independent professional, or just a person with a lot of email, for legal reasons, business reasons, and personal reasons, it is essential to be able to safely archive and easily search your email.

* Safely archive your large volume of vital email information
* Easily access your email database with fast, sophisticated searching
* Protect your essential email data from data format obsolescence
* Get rid of duplicate emails
* Satisy Federal legal requirements mandated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)

Pricing and Availability:
MailSteward comes in three versions, MailSteward Lite ($24.95), MailSteward ($49.95), and MailSteward Pro ($99.95). The Lite version of MailSteward has all of the archiving and searching functionality of MailSteward, but lacks the advanced search, the ability to save frequently used searches, and the features of exporting, tagging, and merging databases.

MailSteward Pro has all of the features of MailSteward, but uses the MySQL Server software for its database, rather than the SQLite database engine used by MailSteward and MailSteward Lite. Regular MailSteward, using SQLite, can handle large volumes of email, 100,000 or more, but for very large volumes that require an industrial grade relational database server, MailSteward Pro is the answer. MailSteward Pro requires a MySQL database server to be installed and running.

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Rome, Italy – ZiggySoft software company today announces the release 2.0 of iWeb Valet, the tool to enhance and upload iWeb pages. As in Apple’s iWeb 09, also iWeb Valet give you the power to add new interactive widgets to your web pages.

HTML codes and Javascripts are terrific tools to help you build interesting content for your web site. For example, you can add trailing cursors, music, falling objects such as snow or image rollovers, calendars, scrolling texts, navigation menus, flash graphics and much more. Thousands of free scripts are available to you in the Internet for use on your Web pages. There is no longer need to edit script code by hand: iWeb Valet now includes a selection (and other will come) of those scripts that are compatible to iWeb and a powerful function to easily add them to your iWeb pages.

And More! Version 2.0 adds also the ability to works on a temporary copy of your site folder, so now iWeb Valet can modify any local site as it do with the local folders published by iWeb: use it with Dreamweaver or Golive local sites as well.

Feature Highlights:
* Add many powerful widgets to your web pages
* Personalize iWeb page titles by adding a prefix of you choice
* Add a favicon to your iWeb HTML pages
* Fool spam bots by encoding all email address in your iWeb pages, so that the email couldn’t be picked up by these bots
* Add META tags to provide more information about your webpages and gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines that support tags
* Perform multiple ’search and replace’ operations on all html files contents at once; you can easily make changes of simple text chunks as well as html tags and iWeb default naming conventions
* Encode special characters inside your web pages to solve some display anomaly in non-English texts
* Change the maximum size of all JPEG images of your site simultaneously and very quickly
* Apply a fixed compression ratio to all JPEG images of your iWeb site folder, to save space in your web server
* Add to your iWeb site folder other folders and files not managed by iWeb (favicon, programs, documents, etc.)
* Preview your modified pages in a browser at any time; you don’t have to upload it to a web server first. When you preview a page, all browser-related functions should work, including JavaScript behaviors, absolute links, etc
* Work on a temporary copy of your site folder: use iWeb Valet with Dreamweaver or Golive local sites as well.

And after those changes, iWeb Valet can quickly upload the contents of your iWeb folder to a web site, with:

* Size comparison files check: iWeb Valet will only upload files that have changed (or new files). This saves time, because you will avoid, whenever you make a single change in iWeb, to re-upload the entire site.

* Option to remove the files in the destination when correspondent file is not present in the source directory, in order to save space in your web server, which will provide more room for documents as your site expands.

Other powerful iWeb Valet features:

* Backup/Restore functions (in compressed format) to protect your iWeb sites files from accidental data loss.

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