Hidden in the list of 300+ new Mac OS X Leopard features, titled there as “Forward as Attachment”. What’s the big deal about? I like the quote: You can also drag and drop Mail messages into applications like iChat and they’ll be sent as attachments.

Do not mistake the *.eml with the *.emlx files, the last is used internal by Apple Mail.

I have got a lot of requests of Entourage users, who want OMiC for Entourage. In fact, at the first request I kind of thought this user must be crazy. I would have bet on Microsoft Entourages support of winmail.dat files, which are sent from Microsoft Outlook or Exchange Server. But it didn’t, and there is no way to develop Plug-ins for Entourage 2004.

Yesterday the Blögger (an austrian blogger) Georg Holzer wrote that a PR agency offers him access to the Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Beta, with the site note that it’s already available in the torrent networks. This call my attention!

A first look at the dirty download and I discovered a Plug-ins folder in the Entourage application bundle. I current can’t tell you more because the dirty downloaded beta is expired. I wonder that there is no way as µISV to get access to the beta program of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008.

This should be the last beta before the final release! The first beta version has seemed to work well, based on the feedback that I have received. By this way, thank you all for your feedback!

If you already using the beta please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> Plug-Ins -> OMiC -> Check for updates…), else write me a line.

Look like Leopard make it also harder to develop OMiC. To support Mac OS X 10.3 I need to start Mac OS X 10.4 and build the 10.3 version of OMiC there, copy the result back on my main development system which is running 10.5 of course. Very error prone, sadly. Thanks to the guys from #macsb which try to help me. I would use a ADC Technical Support but I not even know how describe this strange problem.

Getting OMiC ready for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard makes more problems and take more time than I thought, so today there is just a beta version I can offer you. If you are interested in it write me a line.

Many of you early adopters already ask me about the state of OMiC for Mac OS X Leopard which released last Friday. So good news first: There will be definitely a version of OMiC for Leopard!

I think it will be ready in one or two weeks, so stay tuned.

Before I release a new version of OMiC, I always run a lot of tests on Mac OS X 10.3 and Mac OS X 10.4 on my PowerBook. Today I learn the hard way that I forget something: Mac OS X 10.4 on Intel Macs.

OMiC 1.7.0 was broken on Intel Macs, because of that one day after the release of it I release today OMiC 1.7.1, which brings Intel Macs support back.

Sorry for this mistake!

Final, OMiC 1.7.0 is done. It’s bring support for something called nested messages. This is one of the features which is hard to describe… because as all things in OMiC, it’s seamless integrated. So I try it with a screenshot.

For nested messages it was needed to rewrote the hole winmail.dat file parser, so if you find any regressions contact me.

Today, I would like to officially launch restoroot.org, and it brings an update for OMiC and a piece of new software.

It also brings this blog. I would like to share here with you more about mac relevant things than I can write on my other blog on java.net.

Now to the new application, currently it addresses two issues:
1. When you come from Microsoft Windows, you know and love this “Map Network Drive” Feature. On Mac OS X you must always mount manually the share, and when the server gets down, you must manually mount it again.
It is even uglier when you use a laptop, then with every location change you must redo the work.
2. Power of Airport and Bluetooth. Again, you use a Laptop to work, and at home you connect over Airport and use your bluetooth mouse, but at the company you use ethernet and so turn airport power off. And in the train or the coffee with the too small table for a mouse, you turn again airport and bluetooth off to save battery.
Currently, it is in beta phase, so please check it out and give me feedback.