Firefox add-on allows photosharing via gmail account
Private photosharing has been launched for Firefox through the new GPhotospace Add-on for Firefox. The Firefox extension allows Gmail users to store and share photos within their standard Gmail e-mail storage account. Users select their photos, upload them to their Gmail storage, select their recipients and send album viewing invitations via e-mail. For security, users' Gmail credentials are used ...
published on Thursday, the 27. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
ZOS launches Zhiing 1.1 for iPhone
ZOS communications on Tuesday launched Zhiing 1.1, the latest update to its location-based messaging application for the iPhone. Users can now send one message to multiple people. Recipients will also receive names instead of numbers, while the general speed and stability have been enhanced. The program combines browser plug-ins with SMS, allowing users to send directions from the browser to a mob...
published on Wednesday, the 26. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Split Recipients X 2.0
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published on Saturday, the 22. November 2008, scriptbuilders
Apps: Mailings, Office Dock, Screen Movie Recorder
Mailings 1.9.45 ($25) is a batch emailing application that can send any web page or plain text document with attachments to several recipients. Mailings simplifies the task of bulk emailing and has features such as logging, progress monitoring, scheduling, error recovery and throttling. The update has addressed a bug that caused an aborted mailing to occasionally remain scheduled to send again. [D...
published on Tuesday, the 11. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Set the fax log level to possibly resend failed faxes
OS X uses a disappointingly convoluted set of programs and preferences to send a fax. Trying to debug why a particular fax isn't getting through to a particular machine is frustrating, since Apple doesn't provide any help at all. If you happen to stumble upon it, you may see the CUPS log file in /var/log/cups/error_log, which may contain error messages about your failed fax. You can also see this file by opening the log from the fax printer queue (if you made one).I've found that the Apple OS X fax formats aren't particularly compatible with a number of other fax recipients -- I sometimes get repeated errors in /var/log/cups/error_log that look like this:E [date time] [Job 53] There was a fax protocol error.E [date time] PID 352 (/usr/libexec/cups/backend/fax) stopped with status 1!I [date time] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.But that leaves you wondering "how do I set LogLevel to ...
published on Thursday, the 2. October 2008, macosxhints
Flutter mimics MMS support for iPhone
A new iPhone application has been released that attempts to mimic a missing feature from the device, MMS. Flutter is a free app that provides an alternative to e-mail for sending picture messages to other cellphones. The software works by attaching a picture to a webpage, then sending the recipient a text message with the appropriate link. Images can be sourced either from a user's iPhone album, o...
published on Monday, the 15. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
Software Updates & New Release Highlights For Week Ending 2008-08-23
Yet again, an Apple update steals the show with the release of iPhone OS 2.0.2. Strangely enough, you may have been a recipient of the following text message (ostensibly from Apple) even if you upgraded: For a release that just “fixed bugs,” I find it difficut to believe that the motivation behind the SMS (if it [...]
published on Monday, the 25. August 2008, apple-blog
Mailings adds logging, throttling, more
Limit Point Software has introduced Mailings 1.9.40, the newest version of its batch emailing application for Mac. Mailings can deliver any web page or plain text document with attachments to multiple recipients for marketing, announcements, or updates. Additional features including logging, progress monitoring, scheduling, error recovery, throttl...
published on Monday, the 18. August 2008, macintosh-news-network
Send clickable URL as the subject of a Mail message
This is perhaps more of a curiosity than a hint, but it may be useful to someone out there. Did you know that if you send a URL as the subject of a Mail message, it will arrive as a link (if the recipient is also using Mail.app)?The strange thing is that the URL will open the browser when clicked, but the cursor does not show the text as a URL (i.e. the cursor does not change to a pointing finger when over the text).[robg adds: I had to experiment with this before I was able to get it working. To have the link work, you must compose in rich text mode (which makes sense), and there must be some body text. If you send a blank e-mail, then the URL isn't parsed, even when writing in rich text mode.]
published on Monday, the 28. July 2008, macosxhints
Free SMS On IPhone 3G Via AOL IM Client
Glenn Fleishman writes "Jeff Carlson has discovered that you can bypass the 20 cent per message or $5 to $20 per month fees for SMS (text messaging) with the iPhone 3G and AT&T by using AOL's downloadable instant message client for iPhone 2.0, which is free. Just like the full-blown AOL IM system, you can add buddies that are the phone numbers of cell phones you want to send SMS to, and you establish a two-way conduit. The recipient still pays for SMS (if they have a fee) on their end, but if it's another iPhone user, you could coordinate with them via SMS to use instant messaging instead."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published on Sunday, the 13. July 2008, apple-slashdot