The open source Eudora is (hopefully) about to be unleashed onto the world. Sadly, after being lied to for literally years about a new, Cocoa-based version of Eudora in the works, the Eudora community has been left sniffling with the task of doing it themselves. And Qualcomm can’t even release the damn thing without making us wait. The announcement was made on October 1, 2006, and we are still waiting. And I wouldn’t expect it anytime soon. Fuck you, Qualcomm, fuck you in your lazy asses.
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In my last few blog entries one might find my ramblings about moving away from .Mac, and using Web 2.0-based alternatives, and all that nonsense. But until now, I have made no decisions to not renew my .Mac account. And as the phrase “But until now” would imply, I will not be a .Mac member starting December 26, 2006. I really don’t think its necessary to reiterate all the reasons I have mashed together throughout the last few days in several entries, so I will kindly redirect those who are interested there 
. But one thing that is worth reiterating is my utter dependence on .Mac. Everything related to my life on the internet and my Mac is on my iDisk. Emails, papers, presentations, backups, contacts, calendars…A lot of stuff, my friends. The biggest thing I am worried about is my email. The second my 365 days is up, my wonderful IMAP-based email becomes nonfunctional, and bounces everything back to the sender. There’s no way to get things forwarded or keep the same email unless I pay another $99.
Q: If my .Mac trial, full or sub-account expires, what happens to my data?
If your .Mac trial, full or sub-account expires, any web pages, files you have backed up to or stored in iDisk, messages left on the email server, contact information stored in Address Book, and websites saved in Bookmarks will be removed. Emails sent to your .Mac Mail address will bounce back to the sender. If you are the owner of any .Mac groups, group pages will no longer be accessible or visible to group members, and messages sent to the group email address will bounce back to the sender.
So for email, I will turn to my college to which I am applying in a few weeks. I think they should turn on my email accounts fairly early, hopefully before December. That way I can just move all my stuff there–they seem pretty dumb when it comes to space limits, too. So I should have a pretty good amount (even though I don’t use that much anyway). If it does take longer than I expect I will just move back to my old Gmail account, and wait it out. For calendars and contacts, I will use whatever email I am using at the time. Although HipCal looks pretty awesome. I don’t use .Mac for social networking on anything like that, so that isn’t any issue. And for Web space–you’re looking at it. Clearly the only thing I am going to have problems with is moving email addresses. Just think of all the different accounts, newsletters, contacts, and God knows what else I am going to have to update. But I guess we will cross that bridge when we come to it. All I can do now is tell .Mac not to automatically renew and say goodbye to Steve’s solution.
In other news, Thom Yorke’s new cd rocks.
Apparently, a hero of mine (one of the founders of Panic Software) doesn’t think .Mac is worth the cash with all kinds of much better, cheaper options out there. And I am slowly turning towards his opinion. Especially after yesterday, when I became a full-fledged Flickr Pro. Fuck yeah! 2GB of upload a month, with unlimited bandwidth and storage. Well worth the cash, I do believe. It’s really cool, because now I have an email set up to where I can just send one email with a photo from my RAZR phone and it automatically gets tagged and put on Flickr and automatically posted on this here blog. Neat! I have also been using Shadows.com a lot lately for keeping track of bookmarks. I am liking it a LOT better than del.icio.us. As for email, I am still undecided. I just don’t know how I am going to change every account I have’s email address; that seems like it will take a fucking year. Maybe there are solutions to that though.
In other news, I bought a PUR water filter yesterday at Wal-Mart. It kicks ass. Now I won’t die from disease and lead poisoning from my city’s crappy-ass water. By the way, I wrote and posted this entry with Flock, and I fucking love it.
What has happened to good ole’ Eudora? Back in the day, it could handle all kinds of things, and held the crown of the Macintosh. Now it just sits there and makes my desktop look ugly with it’s bad HTML support and ass-ugly UI. A while ago, Qualcomm told us they were going to be porting Eudora to Apple’s Cocoa frameworks (Captain Planet, he’s our hero!), but it’s been like a year and we still wait. Earlier this week they released a mini-update that fixes some bugs, but we’ll stay with the proven fact–Eudora still blows. It has the power of a great email app, but with a face like that–no one’s going to want to play with it. Nevertheless, in the act of being fair and optimistic I figured I would highlight three of Eudora’s new features. Just for funsies, here we go–
1. New Mail.app Importer – For the love of God, they finally got this half way right. If you use a Mac, of course you are going to play with their email program at some point. And if you decide to switch you need a easy way to do it. Eudora has had this feature for a while, but it was not anywhere near perfect (or decent). Finally they have something that works pretty well, I haven’t found any problems or glitches yet. But I expect some to say the least. Damn you Qualcomm.
2. Demo mode Finally, one can try out “Paid” mode for 30 days. There’s not much to say about this one, but honestly who in the hell is going to pay for something they haven’t seen. What kind of world do they think this is?
3. Plays better with Safari If you own a Mac, you know Safari has its like idiosyncrasies and a certain amount of bitchiness to it. Since Eudora uses some outdated shit, it doesn’t necessarily play well with Safari, per se. Rather it works around it. Like an old man compromising with the new guy in the company. The “Search Web…” in the contextual menu seems to work a little better, and faster. And it plays better with images, too. It’s still not based on Cocoa, though, so HTML support is still half-ass. Sigh.
AppleLinks has a great mini-review that goes much more in-depth about the update:
It’s really a shame, Eudora has great email organization and power to it. It’s not unusable, either. With a few hours of tweaking and getting to know the program you could end up loving it. I was once in love with it, but now things have changed. Apple simply offers a better, easier option to me and I took it. But now you can give the Paid mode a little try, and give it some tweaking. Tell me what you think. It’s still ugly, though. Ugly as fuck.
