Filed under: Macintosh, E-mail, Productivity
Mailsmith turns freeware, gets a new owner
by Jay Hathaway Aug 19th 2009
Mailsmith, the OS X email client from Bare Bones Software, has been handed off to Stickshift Software, a new and separate enterprise run by Bare Bones' CEO. Under Stickshift, Mailsmith has become freeware and continue on as a labor of love. Mailsmith 2.2, the first free version, is available now. Mailsmith is a powerful text-only mail client that's been gathering a devoted following since 2002. Version 2.2 was initially announced back in '07, but remained in various stages of beta until this announcement. In case you're not familiar with Mailsmith, some of its biggest selling points are its excellent support for message filters and its finely-tuned text editing options. It also integrates nicely with Apple's Address Book.
Meanwhile, another Bare Bones product, Super Get Info, is being discontinued. The built-in Get Info feature in the latest versions of OS X have caught up to the feature set Super Get Info offered, so there was just no need to keep it around any longer.
It's a problem we've all faced before: We venture away from web based email programs to try those cool-looking desktop email clients everyone's raving about. After getting through the hassle of making sure everything syncs properly, one of the problems many seem to face is duplicate messages. Well, open source Thunderbird users don't stand around letting problems be; They face them with Thunderbird customizations like the Remove Duplicate Messages add-on. 
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
