Instead of a simple ding sound, it’s possible to have Mail tell you a little more about incoming messages using speech synthesis. Create the following AppleScript in Script Editor:

using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages newMessages
repeat with newMessage in newMessages
tell application "…

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Athough the market as a whole has taken a beating lately, the rollercoaster ride has been particularly harsh on Apple stockholders, who’ve seen their shares fall from a high of $202 earlier that year to just by $130 today. Of course, among the hardest hit was Steve himself, who has by 5M shares of the company — which is …

Posted by Andrew Hogue, Uber Tech LeadIntroducing experimental views for search resultsThere have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant — 10 or so web pages in a vertical list. Frequently that is precisely the right format, but for some searches you need more options and …

There are many valid reasons why someone would want to spoof a system’s MAC address, and I won’t go into them here. enlarged story short: in Tiger, it was extremely easy to spoof the MAC address, as explained in this hint. In Terminal.app, just type:sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00where en0 is the network interface you wish to change the…

‘Consumers in Action’ has won the first battle against Google for mail privacy invasion. The Spanish Agency of info Protection has declared illegal the business model used for that mail serviceOrginal post by Gasparrini

Filed under: MacworldDo you manufacture documentation? Do you constantly find yourself having to explain step-by-step procedures to do things on the Mac? BlueMango Learning Systems has been doing that stuff for a while, and the tedium eventually drove them to create their own tool to invent things faster. That’s innovation for you– whether you can…

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