Pubblog.com today 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. MailSteward archives email in a relational database for easy access and safe backup of all your email, and the ultimate email archiving solution for the Mac.

ZiggySoft software 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. Use iWeb Valet to enhance in many ways your iWeb sites, and finally have your website uploaded to the web. iWeb Valet now includes a selection of scripts that are compatible to iWeb and a powerful function to easily add them to your iWeb pages.

To  create a quick and dirty “contact sheet” of images using Quick Look, three simple keyboard shortcuts, and one mouse-click to use:

Open the folder containing the set of image files.
Press Command-A,
Command-Option-Y
Click the Index Sheet button
Then use the shortcut to create a screenshoot, Command-Shift-3.

Know any more good quicklook shortcuts? Put them in the comments and we will feature then here on New Mac User

There isn’t an obvious way to add sites to Safari 4 Beta’s new Top Sites page, but this is a Mac after all, so it occurred to me that drag and drop might work, and it does:

Open the top sites window.
Click the Edit button.
Open the web site you’d like to add to Top Sites in another window.
Drag the want-to-add site’s site icon (it appears to the left of the URL) from the URL address bar into the Top Sites window. …

Okay so thats a bit of a lie. With these 2 methods the program will open, print the item, and then close the file.  

The first way is to select Print in the Finder s File menu.  This only works if you have the file selected in the Finder window. For example I have a Numbers document named Bills in my documents folder. If I wanted to print that, with this meted, I would open a Finder window navigate to the file and select …

Over at Macworld.com, Rob Griffiths, has put together a nice tutorial on how to set up some shortcuts to get to your shared screens on other Macs on the network.

From the article
“You can create a shortcut to any screen sharing with any machine on your network by using your Web browser, and a special URL. The URL takes the form of vnc://address.of.machine, and address.of.machine can be either a raw IP address (i.e. 192.168.1.203) or that Mac’s Bonjour name, which is typically …

This past Friday I was given the opportunity to speak with Paul Kent,  Vice President and General Manager for Macworld Conference and Expo. We spoke about the upcoming event (January 5 – 9) and how New Mac Users would enjoy this Expo. At the 2008 Macworld Expo and Conference, 25% of the 45,000 people who attended were first time Macworld attendees. This year Macworld Expo would like to increase that number. On the show floor there will be the Macworld Learning Center with free …

After downloading something, I usually want to go to my downloads folder. I’ve discovered recently that you can put folders into your Safari bookmarks bar. This means that instead of having to click on my downloads folder in the dock, I can simply hit a Keyboard Shortcut and it will open up the Downloads folder in Finder. 

Step 1: In Finder, locate the folder you want to be able to open up from the bookmarks bar.

Step 2: Open up Safari and …

To say there has been a lot of buzz around Apples decision to leave off the FireWire port on its new line of MacBooks is an understatement. But there is hope for the beloved FireWire standard. According to a recent article from Zdnet’s “The Apple Core”, there is a new standard in the works that would allow for FireWire over Ethernet. The IEEE 1394c is an extension to the FireWire standard (IEEE 1394/a/b) that would provide the ability for FireWire to run at 800Mbps over category 5 …

My Apple Space is delighted to introduce live chat before, during and after the Apple keynote October 14th. My Apple Space is aimed at providing Apple users around the globe a place to connect, cultivate relationships, build a strong sense of community and designed to be a user driven switcher machine on the internet. It’s a great resource for finding out about the latest Mac Hardware, news, latest software updates or just meeting new friends.