pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/utilities/" rel="tag"Utilities/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/windows/" rel="tag"Windows/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/macintosh/" rel="tag"Macintosh/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/microsoft/" rel="tag"Microsoft/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/freeware/" rel="tag"Freeware/a/pdiv align="center"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" align="top" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/03/foldershare.jpg" alt="FolderShare" /br //div About three years after a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/11/03/foldershare-acquired-by-microsoft/"acquiring FolderShare/a, a utility for synchronizing files across multiple computers, Microsoft is retiring the application and plans to a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/11/20/windows-live-sync-to-replace-windows-live-foldershare.aspx"replace it with a similar utility called Windows Live Sync/a. You could make the case that what's happening is Microsoft is renaming FolderShare rather than replacing it, as the new version will likely look a lot like FolderShare and have many of the same functions. But it will also have a few improvements including:br / ul liAbility to sync up to 20 folders with 20,000 files each/li liYou can login with your Windows Live ID/li liIntegration with the Windos Recycle Bin/li liNew clients for Windows and Mac/li liUnicode support for synchronizing files in other languages (beside English)/li /ul Why Microsoft is continuing to push this software at the same time as it develops a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/tag/live-mesh/"Windows Live Mesh/a which allows you to synchronize files across mutilple computers, the web, and mobile devices, is anyone's guess.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/21/microsoft-to-replace-foldershare-with-windows-live-sync/"Microsoft to replace FolderShare with Windows Live Sync/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com"Download Squad/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://foldershareteam.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!9D186A323DE6761!1646.entryRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/21/microsoft-to-replace-foldershare-with-windows-live-sync/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1379842/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/21/microsoft-to-replace-foldershare-with-windows-live-sync/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bHEfNochURSSE4Gicfb3EbgrSAU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bHEfNochURSSE4Gicfb3EbgrSAU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=higFACmt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=higFACmt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=zOi2jwrq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=zOi2jwrq" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/PWqEErtgUsk" height="1" width="1"/

Here are some tips for getting the PHP a href=http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_httppecl_http/a extension running on a Macintosh OS X 10.5.x Leopard 64-bit Intel machine. For starters, you need to follow the instructions in the PHP Documentation pages to install the PEAR/PECL manager, because it is no longer in the standard OS X setup: ol liTo compile the extension, you have to install the Developers (Xcode) from your system disks because they are not installed by default. This is a simple step./li liIt's not made clear that you need to install an older version of ttpecl_http/tt than the latest stable version (1.6.1 as of this writing), because 1.6.1 needs PHP6. I used version 1.5.6 successfully. So, your Terminal command has to be ttsudo pecl install pecl_http-1.5.6/tt./li liThere is apparently a ttlibcurl/tt dependency in the case of ttpecl_http/tt (although no dependencies are listed at the extension site), but it came with the excellent ...br style=clear: both;/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:5646479a6bacd7039815e0c87ca5031b:vLwsxTR4G%2F%2FqHROOpXqMk42sKoyKgkZ%2BSZqlGv877lUum0XkO%2FHNvxzz6jQW%2FVKRGEBo9gVkBfZo'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:508c3cfc1e9476e777e52f8ecd838e5b:x3IGHsC3okETZYDzkOxCoBPkvxR64Kblu5BdyxvA97rhb5crzCus3p3o19Xbt4kpzvO6jzA4va9q'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:27dca964177e5df4d60a0decc1b77bc8:b1lJpSATFrsWonI9vw%2F4mLFSpa8tSJjl5A3Yugam8ldPqWZhVqsWSCt4BVFkNE8W0b7KaIXZB8ycHw%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Slashdot' alt='Add to Slashdot' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/slashdot.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:e32520b6f8816cd0d7802afd4d1d0f5b:sXI4L%2BYApWL5DcgROeUSyEmOcmgA0OqN1OL%2BU%2FvPkhjJGtctp3SljdVtgrYSZv8TjB0tMbSbt3RU'img border='0' title='Email this Article' alt='Email this Article' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/emailthis.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:182de3dd40859a39e71f24844d09c253:uOmMXP74h8FCp8feg%2BBF8undvywmQlbTjdFZx7bAfTG2NVQe3RCY28wYHiY4j04GAYMaZJevt%2FnGQg%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to StumbleUpon' alt='Add to StumbleUpon' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/stumbleit.gif'//a br style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d261a21ddd1187a83dc1cac3a947086ap=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d261a21ddd1187a83dc1cac3a947086ap=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=d261a21ddd1187a83dc1cac3a947086a style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

ts the end of the world as we know it, and Steve Jobs feels fine. With the U.S. Federal Reserve now predicting a recession that will last well into next year--and others predicting much worse--sales of ammunition, spam and gold coins are surging. Oh yeah, so are sales of the Apple chiefs Macintosh computers. pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vD1nfjfCk9Gi3s9cdyGc9A3-Ppw/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/vD1nfjfCk9Gi3s9cdyGc9A3-Ppw/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/technology/popular/~4/6UuvOnaq5g0 height=1 width=1 /br[a href=http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/19/apple-msft-leopard-tech-enter-cx_bc_1120apple.html title=linklink/a] [a href=http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/container/technology/popular/~3/6UuvOnaq5g0/Snow_Leopard_Endangers_Vista title=moremore/a]

POSITION VACANCYbr / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Full-time, Tenure-trackbr / PHOTOGRAPHY/NEW MEDIAbr / br / The University of Delaware Department of Art (UD/ART) seeks an innovative artist and educator whose practice investigates the implications of lens-based culture in the twenty first century. This person will lead the discussion exploring the vast creative possibilities and the cultural concerns surrounding photographic media. We are interested in lens-based media’s relationship to representation, surveillance, mechanical reproduction, and the nature of the image or imaging in the “information age.” br / br / The ideal candidate will technically and conceptually address the way that the image/information is captured (input), edited (processed), and presented (output), and should have specific expertise in one or more of the following areas:br / · developing or exploiting mechanisms for capturing images br / · manipulating visual information through digital software and programming, experimental analog processes, or a hybridization of digital and analog br / · investigating modes of display and distribution from printing, projection, and the “screen,” to digital transmission or 3-D formsbr / br / Qualifications: The artist we seek will teach a full-time load of beginning to advanced undergraduate courses in our photography/new media area and be an active faculty member in an interdisciplinary MFA program. The ideal candidate should have an interest in addressing the aesthetic, historic, and ideological implications of lens-based image production while leading our photography/new media area. This person must be enthusiastic about and open to the broad range of work produced in an interdisciplinary department, which includes Fine Art and Visual Communication. S/he will also oversee, help maintain, and guide the discussion about the development of a comprehensive lens-based media facility. br / br / We require an MFA or equivalent, college level teaching experience, and a serious commitment to personal creative practice. The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.br / br / Starting Date: September 1, 2009br / br / Application Deadline: January 25, 2009br / br / Application Procedure: Our preferred method for application and portfolio submission is online via: http://udart.slideroom.com. br / Include: letter of introduction, curriculum vitae, three references with contact information, artist statement, teaching philosophy, and up to twenty still images and/or up to 5 minutes of video: (.jpg), video (.mov, .wmv, .flv) or PDF documents. For good image quality and fast upload, images should be sized no larger than 1280 x 1280 pixels @ 72 dpi. Video files must be kept under 20MB. br / Indicate availability for CAA Conference interview. Interviews at CAA by appointment only. The curriculum vitae and other application materials may be shared with departmental faculty.br / br / br / To send your application by mail, or for further information contact: Professor Lance Winn, Photography/New Media Search Committee, Department of Art, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. Enclose a SASE if you send materials you wish to be returned.br / br / General Information: The University of Delaware is a research land/sea grant institution with 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The main campus is located in the residential town of Newark, a suburban community of 60,000 about 15 miles from Wilmington, Delaware’s largest city. We are situated midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Newark is also about two hours by train or car north to New York City or south to Washington, D.C. Wilmington provides Amtrak service to all points along the eastern seaboard.br / br / The Department of Art has 400 undergraduate majors pursuing either the BA or BFA degree. Our undergraduate Fine Arts core includes Ceramics, Photography, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, with upper-level, self-directed study. We also offer an undergraduate program in Visual Communications, which includes courses in Graphic Design, Illustration, Advertising Design, Applied Photography, New Media, and interdisciplinary electives. We offer several study abroad opportunities, complementing department and interdisciplinary programs. The department’s two-year, discipline-integrated MFA program fosters a communal teaching model where students dialogue with faculty, professionals and other graduate students outside of their perceived “field.” The department’s facilities and resources can accommodate a maximum of 30 graduate students. br / br / Currently the department has a lighting studio, 15-station color darkroom, 20-station black and white darkroom. and 6 private darkrooms. UD/ART maintains four studio buildings, including a new facility housing Ceramics, Printmaking, and Sculpture. The department also maintains a gallery in its main building. In addition, UD/ART has a state-of-the-art Macintosh-based computing facility with over 30 separate workstations, and a digital output center. The university library also houses a Student Multimedia Design Center which lends video and still cameras and provides studios and advanced workstations for digital editing.br / br / The University has recently completed a new strategic plan, which focuses on innovation, among other goals. UD/ART is proactive about the university’s mission “to be recognized around the world as one of the great public institutions of higher education in America.”br / br / Please visit our website at: http://www.udel.edu/artbr / br / The University of Delaware is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer who encourages applications from minority group members and women.img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/460417077" height="1" width="1"/

Apple iTunes 8.0.2iTunes is the #1 music player available for the Macintosh. You can listen to CDs, MP3, AAC and more.

You can listen to streaming music over a local network, buy individual songs for $1, download over 2,000 music videos, copy songs to your iPod, buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Organize and play everything on your Mac or PC. Then sync it to your iPod and bring it along. Anywhere.
WHAT'S NEWiTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including: Addresses a quality issue creating MP3s on some computers. Fixes a connectivity issue with the iTunes Store when using some Internet proxies with Mac OS X. Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.
REQUIREMENTSMac OS X version 10.4.9 or later, QuickTime 7.5.5 or later.
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ul lia href="http://www.iconarchive.com/"Icon Archive/abr/ The Icon Archive is a categorized collection of high quality desktop amp; web icon sets. We currently host over 21,600 icons in 771 sets from 188 icon authors. Icons can be used for Windows (XP, Vista, etc.), Macintosh (OSX, OS) and Linux (as PNG Files). Copyright of icons belong to original authors. Public usage license can be found on each icon set page./li /ul

WordGuise 4.5.2WordGuise is a REALbasic plugin that defines a text editor and ruler widget for windows and macintosh. It is also an RTF control, supporting most if not all of the gadgets an RTF document provides and it allows embedding of picture objects in the text. The WordGuise widget also provides support for Waste documents, because it sits on top of the well known Waste library. On windows wordguise exploits RichEdit and implements interfaces allowing picture embedding.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 4.5.2:

• [fix]: setting a style for the whole field works again.
• [fix]: resolved text offset values in a field containing WordGuiseObjects, broken in version 4.5.0.

REQUIREMENTSREALbasic 5.5 or later.
DEVELOPERVanHoek Software
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pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/internet/" rel="tag"Internet/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/utilities/" rel="tag"Utilities/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/windows/" rel="tag"Windows/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/macintosh/" rel="tag"Macintosh/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/linux/" rel="tag"Linux/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/freeware/" rel="tag"Freeware/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.crossftp.com/"img hspace="4" height="320" width="500" vspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/11/crossftp.png" //a/div Java Web Start apps intrigue me, and I'm still surprised how few I've come across to share - last month's look at a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/24/mucommander-is-a-powerful-cross-platform-file-manager/"MuCommander/a was the first. If you're interested in an FTP client or server, give a href="http://www.crossftp.com/"CrossFTP/a a try.br /br /Both apps download and run in a flash. All of the functions I need for most FTP chores are available in the free, basic version: upload, download, site/connection manager, rename, delete, CHMOD. CrossFTP also remembers your browsing history and supports favorites, which makes queueing bulk uploads a breeze.br /br /The server works nicely, and can be set up with minimal fuss. It's extremely configurable and an easy way to quickly provide FTP access to any system's files.br /br /As with MuCommander, memory usage is an issue: the client consumes about 40mb and the server another 70mb. That's substantially more than FileZilla ( 11mb / 5mb ).br /br /The pro version provides additional functionality, like support for SSL and SFTP and the ability to move remote files instead of deleting and re-uploading.br /br /While I'm not going to forsake a href="http://filezilla-project.org/"FileZilla/a for this one, it's a nice app to bookmark just in case.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/20/free-crossftp-handles-basic-ftp-chores-on-any-os/"Free CrossFTP handles basic FTP chores on any OS/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com"Download Squad/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.crossftp.com/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/20/free-crossftp-handles-basic-ftp-chores-on-any-os/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1377987/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/20/free-crossftp-handles-basic-ftp-chores-on-any-os/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/BYz53QgPuSzfaMbfXZhOvt_PMKA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/BYz53QgPuSzfaMbfXZhOvt_PMKA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=jdmqs1iK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=jdmqs1iK" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=PD7dvYgq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=PD7dvYgq" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/sGu5uWB5pKY" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/design/" rel="tag"Design/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/fun/" rel="tag"Fun/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/games/" rel="tag"Games/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/photo/" rel="tag"Photo/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/video/" rel="tag"Video/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/macintosh/" rel="tag"Macintosh/a/pa href="http://www.dubster.com/obamafy/"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/11/obamafy.jpg" alt="" //aAlthough the presidential election is over, Obama-inspired design seems to have made a lasting imprint on American culture. If you loved those Shepard-Fairey-designed HOPE posters that the whole Internet seemed to be making parodies of, you can have the effect for yourself in Apple's Photo Booth. Here's how to do it, using a href="http://www.dubster.com/obamafy/"the Obamafy plugin. /abr /br /Once you've downloaded the .qtz file, move it to Compositions in your Library folder. Once you've done that, open up Photo Booth and click effects. You might have to cycle through to the last page of your effects to find Obamafy, but it should be there. It took a little bit of experimenting for me to find the right lighting to get a result that looks like the posters, so don't give up without playing around a little bit.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/20/get-the-obama-effect-in-photo-booth-with-the-obamafy-plugin/"Get the "Obama effect" in Photo Booth with the Obamafy plugin/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com"Download Squad/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.dubster.com/obamafy/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/20/get-the-obama-effect-in-photo-booth-with-the-obamafy-plugin/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1377773/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/20/get-the-obama-effect-in-photo-booth-with-the-obamafy-plugin/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FvLiExYchYuwq3rjAoYWeJaFxg4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FvLiExYchYuwq3rjAoYWeJaFxg4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=FqxsfbE9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=FqxsfbE9" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=SIqb6xEk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=SIqb6xEk" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/Kk3_MVZeBbE" height="1" width="1"/

GameRanger 4.9GameRanger provides a completely customized Macintosh-friendly environment for players to meet worthy opponents, organize and play games, discuss strategies, and exchange tricks and ideas.

Persistent player accounts, profiles, chat rooms, game rooms, audio voice chat, paging, server lists and powerful filtering are just a handful of the features GameRanger offers.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 4.9:

• GameRanger, the multiplayer gaming network, now welcomes PC gamers into its community. GameRanger offers support for playing over 500 games and demos.

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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1st Gen 24" Aluminum iMac running OSX Leopard 10.5

I've been getting random freezes for several months now, but only yesterday following a freeze, I was met by a folder icon with a flashing question mark on startup. I tried booting to my Windows partition, but no luck.

This morning I turned it on and it started up just fine! I began copying files to my external hard drive, and within minutes, it froze again. I booted up to the Leopard install disc to use the Disc Utility, but repeated attempts at Verify/Repair failed.

I immediately restarted holding Option to view available discs...and both my OSX and XP partitions showed up. As soon as I tried clicking on Macintosh HD, the icon went "poof", just like an icon being removed from the Dock. Same thing happened with the Windows icon.

Does it sound like my hard drive is going bad? I'm also willing to re-install Leopard if it might help. Any ideas?

I didnt buy the MacBook to play games at all. But I couldn't help but notice that Call of Duty 4 is made for Mac, and so is Spore right?

I was thinking of perhaps buying a game actually, but I need to know some things first.

When you buy a game for Mac, is that game just as the PC-experience is? Do you have to tweak the settings in graphics etc til you get it just right, so the graphics looks good but also gives you a stable framerate?

Or do they tailor the games a bit differently for Mac? Like, if you install it on the new MacBook, the game detects it and sets its own graphic settings, which the developer has specially configured for this MacBook model.

If not, and you have to adjust the games yourself, how well do Macintosh-made games perform? Can you actually play them without getting a lag? Do they look as good as they do on their PC equalents?

Anyone here who plays on their new MacBook aluminium and can share their experience?

PowerMail 6.0b1PowerMail... Built on top of the PowerMail Engine, a robust cross-platform foundation encapsulating 11 years of messaging and directory experience, PowerMail is continuously enhanced with the following objectives:

• Establish a lean, mean and efficient alternative e-mail client for people who care about e-mail
• Acknowledge the importance of our user's data accesibility by offering reliable storage, high-speed indexing and the ability to export to a variety of standard formats
• Design and implement a clean, robust Macintosh user-interface with best-of-class Mac OS X support
• Contribute to the on-going diversity of mail clients on the Mac
• Evolve our code base on a regular basis to meet customer needs
• Excel in supporting multi-lingual, world-wide mail using Unicode standards
• Support advanced Mac OS 9 technologies as well native multi-tasking and memory protection on Mac OS X
• Provide a smooth migration experience to users of Microsoft Entourage, Outlook Express, Claris Emailer and Netscape Communicator 4.x

WHAT'S NEWVersion 6.0b1:

• Casual-use styled-text to create HTML-formatted messages
• Modern Finder-like lists
• Ability to find and view message threads
• Quick Look display of text, graphic and multimedia attachments within the application
• Display of messages in Finder and FoxTrot Professional without PowerMail launched
• Address book synchronization with MobileMe and e-mail coexistence with iPhone Mail
• Batch import of mail databases and address book from Apple Mail and Thunderbird
• Match and merge imported folders into existing folders
• Two-click export of all mail folders and address book to Apple Mail and Thunderbird
• Mail archiving to circumvent the 2GB single-database limitation
• Service messages and notifications via Growl
• A filter debugger can log in clear text how a message is processed
• Made the self-updating upon launch; download once and auto-update to revisions and final builds.
• Automated purchasing and registration process using Kagi within the application for immediate satisfaction.

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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i decided to start fresh on the xp partition so i deleted it (it was FAT32) then tried to make a new one. bootcamp helper refused to make a partition so i ran disk utility verify disk and got something like this....

Invalid volume file count
(It should be 631719 instead of 631720)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 156988 instead of 156987)
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.

i couldn't run the "repair disk" option because it won't let me for some reason... i also ran the permission verify/repair but i doubt that that had anything to do w/ partitioning.
my mac portion runs fine, but i still want to make an xp partition. solutions(preferably without having to reinstall osx)?
thanks

LaCie Silverkeeper 2.0.1LaCie SilverKeeper is a freeware application from LaCie that automates Backups to external storage devices like hard disks optical disks, and other removable storage devices that have IDE, ATAPI, SCSI, USB, or Firewire interfaces. Essentially any read/write device that can mount on the Macintosh Desktop can be used with SilverKeeper.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.0.1:

• Re-implemented in X-Code for OS X. No longer uses CarbonLib. No longer compatible with OS 9.
• Compatible with Intel and PowerPC Macintosh computers.
• Compatible with OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.x, 10.5.x. For OS 9 users, v1.1.4 will still be available.
• SilverKeeper now can run in the dock or in the background.
• SilverKeeper can be minimized. We still recommend that you do not run other applications or use your computer while backups are being performed. There is a preference setting to sound an alert when the backup is complete.
• Setup wizard added to assist users with common setup tasks. User is prompted to create Backup Sets for entire System, all users, logged-in user.
• Better support for network shares, drives, and network-attached storage (NAS and Ethernet Disk). Sparse Disk Image can now be used as a Backup destination, in addition to normal volumes mounted on the desktop. SilverKeeper will automatically mount disk images used as Backup destinations.
• Bootable disk backups for OS X are limited to direct connect USB, FireWire, IDE/ATA or SATA disk drive volumes and must be formatted as Mac OS Extended.
• The size of the log file has been increased; the max size can now be set by a preference setting. The logs may be saved as text files; there are preferences to determine what information is saved in the log files.
• A user preference optional setting is available to show backup throughput performance.
• Exclusion and Delete options can be set. Certain files/folders can be set to "never delete" or to be excluded from a backup.
• Better file copying and permission management to reduce errors indicated by OS X. OS X errors are from the operating system - these numerical values are detected by SilverKeeper, and reported to the user. SilverKeeper errors are text based - a description is provided for errors within SilverKeeper. An error threshold can be set to terminate backup if error limit is reached before completion.
• Help menu expanded to include links to the built-in SilverKeeper Help; LaCie homepage; SilverKeeper homepage; and email support link for SilverKeeper. SilverKeeper Help now available as separate PDF document. The email link will automatically capture key information about your setup to help troubleshoot your problem report.

REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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