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WidescreenMailPlugin for Leopard

widescreen 20071105 203517 WidescreenMailPlugin for LeopardRecognizing that most Mac screens have more real estate to spare in width than in height, Aaron Harnly’s Letterbox for Mail was born. Sadly, it is not quite ready for Leopard.

In its stead, may I present to you Dane Harnett’s WidescreenMailPlugin. Dane offers the plugin free of charge but if you use it, keep it and love it, please make a donation to him via PayPal.

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For those whining about Leopard’s transparent menu bar, there are solutions

transmenu 20071027 210510 For those whining about Leopards transparent menu bar, there are solutionsI’ve seen more than a few twitters maligning the decision of Apple to make the menu bar transparent in Leopard. Personally, I don’t mind it. If it bothers you, I offer three solutions:

  1. Use an image editing program to ad a 22 pixel high white bar to the top of your chosen desktop picture.

  2. Use Eternal Storm Software’s OpaqueMenuBar and send the developer a generous donation via PayPal.
  3. Get used to it and quit your belly aching.

If your particular whine is in regards to Leopard’s 3-D dock, Riotgames’ TigerDock might kiss it better for you. Or maybe Skybox Studios’ Dock Switcher will take the smart out of your boo boo.

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I promise, after this shareware purchase, I’ll pay off my credit cards

debtinator 20070806 140706 I promise, after this shareware purchase, Ill pay off my credit cardsI don’t know about you, but this recent renaissance in Mac shareware has been murder on my Visa and PayPal accounts. Sure I get a lot of great software and it all enhances my life to some degree, but life enhancement doesn’t pay the bills, baby!! Debtinator from Basset Software is one possible exception. While it won’t chip in on the month’s Visa bill, it will tell you how to re-structure your money and pay off that debt as fast as possible.

You tell it your income, expenses, your debts, and everything about them. And Debtinator handles all of the details for you. The software’s product page explains it like this:

Let’s say you earn $52,000/year, and have a few expenses (rent, gas, food). And you have a credit card with a $5,000 balance, a 15% interest rate, and a required monthly payment of $200.

Pay only the minimum, and you’ll be paying it off for the next 2 1/2 years and send $862.07 in interest!

Or, you can punch it all into Debtinator, pay the thing off in 3 months, and only spend $92.32. You just saved $769.75! That USD$15.00 registration fee is looking better all the time, isn’t it?

Debtinator just got bumped up to version 2.2.3, so if you’re a long time registered user, go update. Update details after the fold.
New in Debtinator 2.2.3

  • Added “Default Bank Account” for all new documents

  • Added Total Available Funds and Net Worth report columns
  • Minor internal optimizations
  • Now enforces that non-repeating debts must be paid off in full
  • Fixed an inconsistency error that could occur when deleting a Line Item
  • Fixed a bug that could cause accumulation of junk, inaccessible data in the data file

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