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I use muCommander on my Mac and Windows machines to manage local and remote files. I like that it's cross-platform so my brain doesn't need to switch gears when I switch machines. What I mainly like is that it has side-by-side panes that each display a view of a directory and you can easily copy or move files between these two directories. My most common tasks with muCommander are:

• copying files between a local machine and an SFTP server
• copying files between two of my local machines 
• copying files between directories on a single machine
• editing files with my favorite editor, vim (but you can use any editor you like)
• checking the MD5 (or other) checksum of a file

You can do lots more with muCommander, including run it on any platform that supports Java and access & manage files on servers running SMB, NFS, HTTP, Bonjour, and --  starting with version 0.8.5 -- Amazon S3 & Hadoop HDFS.

muCommander 0.8.5 was released on 2010 February 24. It's free/libre open source software (FLOSS) and it's free/gratis. Check it out at mucommander.com and trac.mucommander.com.

To run muCommander you need to have a Java runtime environment installed on your system. Mac OS X systems have a Java runtime pre-installed, but Windows 7 systems do not. What I did to install Java on my new Windows 7 machine was to go to java.com and follow the directions on What is the offline method for downloading and installing Java for a Windows computer?

Note: You do not need to enable Java in your web browsers and I recommend that you do not (unless you need to run a Java-based applet inside a browser).

See also: wikipedia.org/wiki/MuCommander and osx.iusethis.com/app/mucommander

Labels: app, cloud, crossplatform, floss, gratis, iusethis, java, like, networking, osx, releases, s3, software, sysadmin, windows

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1. MetaFilter.com
2. Slashdot.org
3. Open Directory Project (dmoz.org)
4. Social bookmarking sites such as Delicious.com

• a log of the web, and
• a log of activities, thoughts, notes, tips, essays, stories, quotes, and pretty much anything

"log" means "diary" or "journal" or "listing" or "notebook" or "record"

1. my Twitter timeline
2. my Identi.ca timeline
3. my Delicious bookmarks
4. my Blogger blog
5. my Tumblr tumblelog (which is not ready for public consumption)
6. my Infinite Ink pages (which I periodically update, although it might seem that I've abandoned them)

• History of blogging timeline at Wikipedia.org
  
• weblogs: a history and perspective by Rebecca Blood

Labels: blogging, blogs, bookmarking, history, internet, terminology, twitter

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Labels: blogger, fail, sitedesign, terminology, testing

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I’m using a Microsoft Windows machine for the first time in a long time and I’m trying out Windows Live Writer. So far, it looks good. Here’s what I like:

• No need to have a Windows Live account.
• Clean source code that uses paragraph tags (<p></p>) for every paragraph. The Blogger WYSIWYG post editor creates source code that does not use paragraph tags.
• “Insert Hyperlink” lets you specify Title and Rel attributes (that are used in the <a href tag). 
• “Insert Hyperlink” lets you optionally specify that the hyperlink and its display text are remembered and re-used.
• Can specify Blogger Labels by choosing them from a list of all my Blogger Labels. Writer calls these Categories.
• Highlights typos.
• Can save drafts either remotely at Blogger.com or locally, or both (by clicking on each of the “Save Draft” options).
• It’s gratis.

Here are some bugs and wishes:

• Bug: Sometimes an <li> tag does not have a closing </li> tag.
• Wish: WYSIWYG way to insert <code></code> and all other standard HTML tags. I’m currently doing this by hand in the Source editor. 
• Wish: Option to view both the Source and the WYSIWYG version of a blog post in a split screen and be able to edit either incarnation and have the other incarnation auto update. The main reason I still use Dreamweaver is because of this feature.
• Wish: It were available for other operating systems, for example, Mac OS X or Linux.

Writer seems better than all the other Blog editors I’ve tried and I’m hoping it will inspire me to start blogging again. It might even inspire me to switch operating systems (from Mac OS X to MS Windows)!

Labels: blogger, blogging, labels, microsoft, software, switch, testing, writer

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Inspired by Faruk Ateş's The Killing of the Comments (Well, Almost), I've set up Deflexion.com so that you can now use Twitter to comment on a blog item. You can also still comment via the Blogger comment form or a backlink. The advantages of Twitter are that it's short & sweet, it isn't as intimidating as posting on my site, and it's easier to have an ongoing conversation on Twitter than on my site. If you use Twitter to comment, make sure that you include the following in your tweet:

@nm #item-hashtag #Re

So a tweet about this blog item should include:

@nm #tweeting-com #Re

This will make it possible to search Twitter for tweets about my pages. For example, to find tweets about this blog item, search Twitter for @nm #tweeting-com. To find tweets about any of my web pages, search Twitter for @nm #Re.

It's not perfect, but I'm hoping it will make it easier for people to comment on my writing. I get a lot of private email comments about my writing and almost all of these should be public. I'm still working on this and here are some of my plans:

• To Do
  1. avoid unintended hashtag collisions
  2. save my Twitter timeline
  3. display relevant Twitter comments on the page that's being commented on
  4. do this for my Infinite Ink pages
  5. add the relevant Comment at Twitter link in my blog feed (I'm not sure if this is possible with Blogger)
  6. maybe use these hashtags to create my own tiny urls (requires a solution to #1 above)

Please tweet any thoughts you have about this! (Or comment here if you don't have a Twitter account.)

Updated: 28.04.09 11:15

Labels: blogger, blogging, commenting, feeds, hashtags, messaging, search, tech, tinyurl, twitter

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But equally significant this time may become known as the Reverse-Bradley Effect: whites who would never admit to voting for a black man, but do. And, expanding the definition somewhat, Republicans and conservatives who would never admit to voting for a Democrat, especially one so liberal. Whether these dynamics are in balance won't be known for a while -- or perhaps ever. That's because the crux of the reverse syndrome is a code of omerta.

[. . .]

I've received too many e-mails and had too many conversations that began, "Just between you and me," and ended with, "I wouldn't want anyone at work to know," to believe that this is an insignificant trend.

Labels: 2008, art, inspiration, music, obama, politics, seattle, usa, wisdom, yeswecan

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Labels: dfw, rafaelnadal, religion, rogerfederer, sports, tennis, tv

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• 2008 September 23: uc.princeton.edu (UChannel): Crisis on Wall St. -- A panel of Princeton economists chaired by Hyun Shin, Professor of Economics and associate chair of the Department of Economics. Panelists: Markus Brunnermeier, Professor of Economics; Harrison Hong, Professor in Finance; Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs; Alan Blinder, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and co‐director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies.
• 2008 October 1: charlierose.com: An exclusive conversation with Warren Buffett -- 54 minutes, 48 seconds
• 2008 October 10: iadb.org (Inter-American Development Bank): Nouriel Roubini, Chairman, RGE Monitor and Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University

Labels: blogs, charlierose, economics, linklists, nourielroubini, paulkrugman, videos, warrenbuffett, wow

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(paragraph) -- why doesn't blogger let me do this? this is also a test of the new 'Show HTML literally' compose setting

Labels: blogger, testing

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Yahoo! Mail users rejoice - There’s now IMAP access through Zimbra Desktop to all free, plus, and business accounts. You didn’t read that wrong. Normally only Plus accounts have POP access, but as a perk when using Zimbra Desktop the mail is synced via IMAP; which is a much better protocol for keeping your mail organized - and yes it’s available to free accounts as well. . . .

This release makes Zimbra Desktop available to a quarter-billion Yahoo! users with support for 20+ languages.

• Email, contacts, and calendar all in one application
• Available for Windows, Apple, or Linux desktop computers
• Any POP or IMAP email account can be added to Zimbra Desktop
• Zimbra Desktop is free for anyone
  

I bet that Gmail is creating their own desktop IMAP client and that they are going to release Gmail server-side IMAP simultaneously with the Gmail IMAP client.

• usatoday.com: Yahoo's new Zimbra Desktop puts all your e-mail in order
• emaildiscussions.com: Yahoo's new Zimbra Desktop puts all your e-mail in order
• zimbra.com/forums: Zimbra Desktop Beta 3!
• yahoo.com: Yahoo! Mail Blog

Labels: 2005, 2008, desktop, email, future, google, gratis, hostingproviders, imap, microsoft, prism, ria, totry, yahoo, ymail, zimbra

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• Updates and Bug Fixes for June 26th
• New Feature: Embedded Comment Form

Labels: blogger, releases, testing

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Labels: animation, apps, browsers, cool, email, feeds, fun, gratis, osx, releases

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Labels: browsers, cloud, history, internet, web2.0, webapps

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• search del.icio.us for procmail - 300 PQS bookmarkers
• search diigo.com for procmail - 5 PQS bookmarkers
• search faves.com for procmail - 0 PQS bookmarkers
• search furl.net for procmail - 1 PQS bookmarker
• search ma.gnolia.com for procmail - 17 PQS bookmarkers
• search simpy.com for procmail - 19 PQS bookmarkers
• search stumbleupon.com for procmail - 9 PQS bookmarkers

Labels: bookmarking, comparisons, del.icio.us, delicious, geeks, nerds, popularity, procmail, simpy, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, web2.0, webservices

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ii.com · Procmail Quick Start: An introduction to email filtering with a focus on procmail by Nancy McGough
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
this url has been saved by 300 people.

Labels: 1994, bookmarking, del.icio.us, delicious, history, popularity, procmail

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## Block viewing of .htaccess files
<Files .htaccess>
  order allow,deny
  deny from all
</Files>

## Do not let IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xx access (GET) the site
## Uncomment these 5 lines if someone or something is abusing the site
## Note: 'GET' can be replaced by 'GET POST PUT'
# <Limit GET>
#   order allow,deny
#   allow from all
#   deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
# </Limit>

## If a directory is requested, do not list the files in the directory
Options -Indexes

## Next is sometimes needed, but might already be set in the server configuration
# AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

## Next is needed if you use Rewrite rules
## (examples of RewriteCond and RewriteRule are in the sections below)
RewriteEngine On

## Next Rewrite option is often already set in the server configuration
## Uncomment if Rewrite rules don't work
# Options +FollowSymLinks

“The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.”

## Specify the MIME type of unknown file extensions
## This is needed because I use extensionless URLs at Deflexion.com
## If default is HTML, use:
# DefaultType text/html
## If default is PHP, use:
DefaultType application/x-httpd-php

## If URL points to a directory, serve the first of these files that exist
DirectoryIndex index index.php index.html index.atom

## PHP include files are located in this directory
php_value include_path "/path/i/do/not/want/to/publish/on/my/blog/_shared"

## If 'http://deflexion.com/index' is requested, remove 'index'
## The goal is to get people & machines to link to 1 & only 1 URL for this page
## Details at Wikipedia's URL normalization (aka URL canonicalization)
## Another examples of URL canonicalization is in the Infinite Ink section below
## Note: '^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /' matches GET POST PROPFIND etc, followed by space slash
## This RewriteCond avoids infinite loops
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index$ http://deflexion.com/ [R=301,L]

## Redirect this URL-path to the current URL
Redirect permanent /messaging/blogs/ http://deflexion.com/2004/01/just-what-is-blog-atomizing

## For details about these RedirectMatch lines, see
## Twitter, TinyURL, Dots, Dashes, and My htaccess File
## Note: The order of these 5 RedirectMatch lines matters!
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3-$4-$5
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3-$4
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2
              ^^^
              '301' is equivalent to 'permanent'

## If the requested hostname is anything other than www.ii.com,
## rewrite it to www.ii.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.ii.com$ 
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ii.com/$1 [R=301]

## Remove trailing 'index.html' from requested URLs
## See Note above about the regular expression '^[A-Z](3,9}\ /'
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\.html$ http://www.ii.com/$1 [R=301,L]

## Redirect this local URL-path to the current URL
Redirect permanent /communicate http://deflexion.com/2005/12/make-meta-comment

Labels: apache, htaccess, mime, php, regex, regularexpressions, sitedesign, sysadmin, urls

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If a URL path in a tweet contains only forward slashes (/), dots (.), and alphanumeric characters, Twitter does not convert the URL to a TinyURL.

http://deflexion.com/2008/03/twitter.tinyurl.dots.dashes.and.my

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(2008/../[^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ http://deflexion.com/$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6

http://deflexion.com/2008/03/twitter-tinyurl-dots-dashes-and-my

Labels: htaccess, privacyandsecurity, regularexpressions, tinyurl, twitter, urls

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1. Install the latest Alpine. For details, see my blog item titled Building and Installing Alpine (Apache-Licensed Pine).


2. In a Terminal.app window, run

   xterm -e alpine &

3. In Alpine, go to Main > Setup > Config (MSC) and set this feature:

   [X]  Enable Mouse in Xterm

   Read Alpine's built-in Help about Enable Mouse in Xterm (by typing Ctrl-G or ?), but note that in Leopard you should not explicitly set the DISPLAY environment variable. Instead, it will be set automatically when xterm runs. This is one of the changes in Leopard.


4. Read the built-in Help about the following two features and decide if you would like to set them. Here are the settings that I use:

   [X]  Enable Newmail in Xterm Icon
   [ ]  Enable Newmail Short Text in Icon



5. In Alpine, go to Main > Setup > Kolor (MSK) and set
   

   Color Style
     Set    Rule Values
     ---  ----------------------
     ( )  no-color
     ( )  use-termdef
     ( )  force-ansi-8color
     ( )  force-ansi-16color
     (*)  force-xterm-256color

   After you set the color style, use the Space and - keys to navigate the SETUP COLOR screen and choose colors that you like.


6. Save your settings and quit Alpine.


7. Quit X11.


8. In a Terminal.app window, run

   xterm -e alpine &

   and check that the mouse and colors are working.


9. If you plan to run Alpine in an X11 Terminal regularly, set up an alias in your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile) that you can use to launch xalpine with the xterm settings (fonts, geometry, etc.) that you like. For example, here is the alias that I'm currently using:

   alias xal='xterm -fa DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono -fs 18 -geometry 116x32+0+0 -e alpine &'

Labels: alpine, bash, email, fonts, imap, mouse, nntp, osx, unicode, x11, xterm

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1. Click the Blogger "Edit Html" tab.
2. From the Safari Edit menu, choose Edit in MacVim.
3. Use MacVim to edit the HTML and then use the Vim command :wq to write and quit.
4. The focus returns to the Blogger blog item text box, which now contains the text that MacVim wrote out.

:set ft=html

autocmd BufRead *.safari setfiletype html

Labels: blogger, html, macvim, osx, safari, vim

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Labels: blogger, twitter

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Group email twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com

From: username@example.com
To: twitter-development-talk-subscribe@googlegroups.com
Subject: subscribe

Labels: discussiongroups, email, google, twitter

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I'm still searching for a desktop blog editor. Today I'm trying ecto 3 βeta 24, which is $18 and runs on Mac OS X and MS Windows. Today is day 1 of my 21-day trial and so far it seems pretty good.

BTW, Happy New Year, Gung hay fat choy, Sun nien fai lok, Xin nian yu kuai, Godt Nytår, Gelukkig nieuwjaar, Aide shoma mobarak, Bonne année, Aith-bhliain Fe Nhaise Dhuit, Gutes Neues Jahr, Hauoli Makahiki Hou, Shanah tovah, Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab, elamat Tahun Baru, Buon Capo d'Anno, Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu, Godt Nyttår, Maligayang Bagong Taon, Szczesliwego Nowego roku, Feliz ano novo, La Multi Ani, S Novym Godom, Feliz Año Nuevo, Wilujeng Tahun Baru, Gott Nytt År, Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun, Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

Labels: blogger, blogging, ecto, languages, software

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• DOOOOOM! Oh wait, Nevermind. We're fine. You're still doomed though.
• The NYT asks six people whether the US is in a recession

• Collateralized Debt Obligations: Structures and Analysis by Douglas J. Lucas, Laurie S. Goodman, Frank J. Fabozzi

I think what's going on with my psychology is that when things are going up, I'm just waiting for the turnaround, and dreading it. When things are going down, I feel better because I'm no longer holding my breath waiting for the crash. ... I wonder what it says about me that I feel better once the pop happens. What about you, are you feeling better or worse now that this pop is happening? How did you feel when the dotcom pop/crash happened?

when things fall apart there is a bit of, what's it called, schadenfreude, I think it is. Usually, though when things come apart it pretty quickly becomes scary and painful, even if one really disliked all the dumb-a** stuff on the way up. These big waves, like the dot com thing and now the real estate thing made me feel as though everyone is living in some weird other reality.... it is like the whole run up to the Iraq War too... it's like, "what's happened to reality?" "is everyone mad?" and so on. It's very uncomfortable... and I suppose if it were not, then market waves wouldn't have such power... It's group-think and since we are all social animals it is very hard to resist unless you've been dropped on your head at an early age. I certainly didn't feel happy about the Iraq War outcome, even though I feel I pretty clearly anticipated just how it would go and alas continues to go... and in this crash, I guess I'm glad to see the crazy excess begin to get driven out of the markets and maybe too out of the neighborhood too! but, lots of perfectly nice people get ground up in these things as well, so one can't go around feeling that being a little bit right sometimes is doing anyone much good. But, too, it is easy to just be too pessimistic all the time and so to miss the upside and to really profoundly also to miss what is going on -- so, balance, insight, intuition and so on....

Labels: investing, money, psychology, reality, war, wisdom

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• I can make the MarsEdit post editor window font whatever size I want; this is not the case in Flock.
• I can launch an alternate editor, such as vim, from the MarsEdit post editor.
• Assigning labels to a post is simple -- just check them off in the Options/Categories sidebar.

Labels: blogger, blogging, marsedit, osx, software

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Labels: 1password, browsers, iusethis, osx

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• Social network service at Wikipedia.org
  
• Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship by danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison

• Social Network Transitions by Fred Stutzman
  

Labels: apps, iusethis, osx, socialsoftware, software, terminology, web2.0, webservices

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your bookmarks | your network | subscriptions | links for you | post

your favorites | your network | subscriptions | links for you | post

[X] Include "Shared with Flock" text when sharing

Blogged with Flock

Labels: bookmarking, browsers, del.icio.us, delicious, flock, sharing

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Labels: blogger, browsers, floss, web2.0

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		2007 March 12 On this page, added Wish #1: Feed Wishes.
		2007 March 2 The University of Washington (UW) released Alpine 0.83, Pico 4.93, Pilot 2.99, UW IMAP Toolkit imap-2006f, and mailutil 2006f.6 for αlpha testing. To learn about the Alpine Message System, which is basically Pine 5.0, and to help test it, see the UW Alpine Information Center.
		2007 March 2 SeaMonkey Suite 1.1.1 released. The SeaMonkey Suite IMAP client is a nice complement to Pine and I discuss it below in SeaMonkey Suite and Thunderbird versus Pine. I've written about why I use SeaMonkey Suite in SeaMonkey Suite 1.0.1 and Send This Page in my blog, and in Re: Seamonkey mail vs Thunderbird in the mozilla.support.seamonkey newsgroup. Note: SeaMonkey Suite 1.1+ supports many (maybe infinitely many?) IMAP keywords. IMAP Keywords are discussed in Setting Up Keywords (Labels) on the Power Pine page.
		2007 January 30 In my blog, I posted an item titled Building and Installing Alpine (Apache-Licensed Pine).
		2006 December 6 The University of Washington won a $100,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC) “for the development and support of IMAP/PINE email tools.” To learn more about this, see MATC 2006 Winners Announced, MATC Winners 2006, and UW a Recipient of the First Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. Congratulations to the Pine Team!
		2006 November 24 On the Power Pine page, added a section titled Privacy Configuration Settings.
		2006 November 19 At Slashdot, there is a discussion about Eduardo Chappa's Patches For Pine Going Away. As usual, some Slashdotters are commenting without reading the referenced page (which is mirrored here).
		2006 September 20 and 25 Cyrus Daboo released Mulberry 4.0.6 and I posted a blog item titled One-Click Tagging in Mulberry. If you would like to really understand IMAP or IMAP keywords (which are discussed on the Power Pine page), I highly recommend that you use Mulberry as one of your IMAP clients. Mulberry is an excellent complement to Pine and I discuss it in IMAP Arena 1: Mulberry versus Pine below.
		2006 August 20 Mulberry, which is a very good cross-platform email and calendar client, is now free/gratis and version 4.0.5 has been released. This is great news for IMAP users, especially if you use IMAP keywords (discussed on the Power Pine page), LDAP address books, or the Sieve filtering language. Mulberry is an excellent complement to Pine and I discuss it below in the section IMAP Arena 1: Mulberry versus Pine. I discuss the trend towards making software free (both gratis and libre) in my Deflexion.com blog in the item Freeing the IMAP Clients.
		2006 August 18 On the Power Pine page, updated the sections Using the Incoming-Folders Collection (aka Pine Shortcuts) and Using Pine's incoming-archive-folders Variable. I also started a discussion thread in gmane.org.infiniteink about Understanding Pine incoming-folders and incoming-archive-folders. Please join the discussion if you have any questions or comments about Pine incoming folders.
		2006 August ~2 The University of Washington (UW) launched the Alpine Information Center. Alpine is the name of the upcoming Apache-Licensed Pine and includes Unix, Mac OS X, & MS-Windows desktop versions of Pine, and a web-based version of Pine (formerly known as WebPine). I discuss the history of, and problems related to, the current Pine license in the section Free/Libre Open Source Software and Pine below. I discuss the trend towards making software free (both libre and gratis) in Freeing the IMAP Clients at Deflexion.com.
		2006 June 19 On the Power Pine page, added a section called Using a Shell Script to Launch Pine.
		2006 June 9 MacOSXHints.com has a poll about What's your favorite email application? Check out the discussion and the poll results (currently ~1% of the votes are for Pine). And vote!
		2006 June 7 If you use Pine on Mac OS X, check out today's Deflexion.com blog item, which is titled Clicks, Colors, and Speed in Terminal and iTerm. This discusses why I run Pine in Terminal rather than iTerm, and includes some useful Mac Pine tips. Related Mac Pine tips are in Mac url-viewer tips on the Power Pine page.
		2006 May 17 In my blog, I posted an item titled Server-Side Message Labels, which describes how I use labels to help me manage my email. I discuss how to use labels in Pine in Setting Up Keywords (Labels) on the Power Pine page.
		2006 May 11 Mark Crispin posted a message to gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client message in which he said: “imap-2006 will be a major update... There's a major update to Pine in progress as well. The two will be released together, as has been our practice for the past several years.”
		2006 May 6 On the Power Pine page, updated the Collection Tips section so there is now an explanation of how Pine represents directory names and dual-use names (aka hybrid folders). A dual-use name is a single name that is used for both a mailbox and a directory.
		2006 February 26 In Reading From Multiple News Servers on the Power Pine page, added information about how you can use Pine and the Genecast NNTP server to read feeds, including my del.icio.us bookmarks feed.
		Starting 2006 February 23 In comp.mail.pine, there is a discussion titled Do people still use Pine? This thread includes more than 35 messages -- don't be shy about posting your thoughts!
		2006 February 4 On the Power Pine page, updated Fun with Color and Kolor so it now includes a subsection called Index Color Rule and Virtual Mailbox Example. The new subsection includes: an example index color rule, which I use to color solicited-bulk-email messages blue on my Pine MESSAGE INDEX screen, and instructions for creating a “virtual mailbox” of messages that match this rule.
		2006 January 23 In my Deflexion.com blog, I posted a blog item titled IMAP Tip: Use a backup-all mailbox. A backup-all mailbox has many uses, including providing an easy way to have an instance of Pine notify you about all your new (RECENT) incoming messages and a good place to experiment with and learn about Pine saved searches (virtual mailboxes). Details are in the blog item.
		2005 December 16 In comp.mail.pine, Chris Game posted a message in which he said: “Every time I've tried to read through [the Power Pine page] in search of some useful tips, I've lost the will to live well before the end!” I know that that page and this page (which are both more than ten years old BTW) are overwhelming and out of control, and I plan to move them — and all the Infinite Ink pages — into a searchable modularized groovy wiki in 2006. I hope we can all maintain the will to live until then! (:-))
		2005 November 28 In comp.mail.pine, I posted instructions for installing the UW pre-built pine-bin.osx-10.4.Z on Mac OS X Tiger. If you want to build Pine yourself, for example if you want to use a PASSFILE or if you are using a system for which there is no pre-built binary, see the Build Tips in Using a PASSFILE with Unix and Mac Pine on the Power Pine page.
		2005 November 25 As I announced in a blog post titled Turning on Comments or My Own Private Usenet, I have enabled comments in my Deflexion.com blog. Your comments are welcome!
		2005 September & August On this page, added Wish #1: List the Relevant INBOX in every IMAP FOLDER LIST and 4 wishes to the Miscellaneous Pine Wishes below.
		2005 September 28 As announced here, the University of Washington (UW) released Pine 4.64, Pico 4.10, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004g. To see what's new and to download the Pine Message System, go to washington.edu/pine/changes/4.63-to-4.64.html. Important: Because of a buffer overflow problem in earlier versions of UW IMAP and Pine, it is recommended that everyone upgrade to UW IMAP 2004g+ and Pine 4.64+.
		2005 August 25 In the Gmail Tips section of the Power Pine page, I added a tip about how to “bounce forward” (redirect) archived messages to Gmail. Now that Gmail lets users customize the 'From:' address in outgoing mail, many people, e.g. Jeremy Zawodny (but not me), are switching to Gmail.
		2005 August 19 In comp.mail.pine, I posted a quick start to setting up Pine to access an INBOX on a POP server. On the Power Pine page, I updated the section Using Pine's Built-In Fetch (#move) Ability, which describes an alternate way to access a POP INBOX with Pine.
		2005 July 30 - April 4 Eduardo Chappa posted a Pine Tip of the Day. These tips are available via the web (HTTP) or via a web feed (RSS/XML).
		2005 July 2 On the Power Pine page, added Step 6A, which is about the default-fcc variable, and combined Steps 6B & 6C into Step 6C.
		2005 June 26 On the Power Pine page, added a tip to the Speeding Up Pine section. This new tip is currently #28 and is especially useful if you have a slow connection to the Net and run Pine remotely in an ssh window. This tip includes a sample slowpine alias that you can use to launch Pine when you have a slow connection.
		2005 June 1 On the Power Pine page, added a section called Using the Rename Command to Move a Mailbox.
		2005 May 8 On the Power Pine page, updated the section Using Pine's Built-In Fetch (#move) Ability so it now includes a subsection called The Metaphysics of a #move Folder: Noun or Verb?
		2005 May 2 On this page, added Wish #2: Filter Wishes. On the Power Pine page, updated the section Using a Pine Filter to Automatically Move Messages.
		2005 April 28 As announced here, the University of Washington (UW) released Pine 4.63, Pico 4.10, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004e. To see what's new, go to washington.edu/pine/changes/4.62-to-4.63.html.
		2005 March 9-12 On the Power Pine page: Updated the Gmail Tips section so it now describes how to work around some Gmail bugs. Updated the Using a Pine Filter to Automatically Move Messages in a Mailbox section.
		2005 February 13-22 On the Power Pine page: Added Step 6F, which is about the index-format variable. Updated Setting Up Keywords (Labels). Added two new speed tips, which at the moment are speed tip #22 and speed tip #23. Added Using Environment Variables to Specify Folders and Collections. Added Posting to a Different News Server in Pine 4.56 and Later. Updated Using Pine's pruned-folders Variable, especially the Pruning Tips. On the Compartmentalizing and Sharing Your Pine Configuration page, updated the... sample feature-list, sample index-format, and 22 sample keywords (aka user-defined labels or tags)
		2005 January 18 The University of Washington (UW) released Pine 4.62, Pico 4.9, Pilot 2.0, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004c. This version of Pine satisfies a lot of my Pine wishes, including my (now former) #1 Pine wish and part of my #2 Pine wish, and includes a new way to check the current and stay-open mailboxes for recent messages.
		2005 January 17 On the Power Pine page, added a section called Bugs and Debugging.
		2005 January 4 On the Power Pine page, I updated the section called Using the incoming-folders Collection. While updating this section, I realized that: You can think of your Pine Incoming Folders as your Pine Bookmarks or Favorites or Daily Reads. And I added that bit of insight to the Incoming-Folders Tips.
		2004 November 20 On the Power Pine page, I added a section called POPping Gmail is Different. This describes how I use Pine to move a copy of my Gmail messages to an IMAP server and lists five ways in which Gmail is different from other POP service providers.
		2004 November 10 In the article Google Brings E-Mail Client Access to Gmail, Matt Hicks said that today (Nov. 10) Google “began providing free POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) access on Gmail accounts.” I discuss using Pine with Gmail in the section POPping Gmail is Different on the Power Pine page.
		2004 October 28 Steve Hubert, a member of the Pine Team, posted a message in comp.mail.pine, in which he said that in the next version of Pine (4.62), the aggregate select command (;) will be able to select based on a pre-existing rule. This will make it possible to create saved searches or virtual mailboxes. Thank you to Gopi Sundaram for suggesting this great feature.
		2004 October 26 On this page: Added a section called Wish #2: Keyword (Label) Wishes. Updated the section Your X-Message-Flag Header. I now recommend not using this header because it is considered a spam indicator by some spam-detection tools.
		2004 October 16 On the Power Pine page: Added a section called Setting Up Keywords (Labels). This includes a tip about using keywords to implement David Allen's Getting Things Done strategy. Updated the sections Using the -passfile and -nowrite_passfile Command-Line Arguments and Checking the Current Mailbox and Stay-Open Mailboxes for Recent Messages.
		2004 September 28 Updated the section below called IMAP Arena 2: SeaMonkey Suite and Thunderbird versus Pine.
		2004 August 7 On the Power Pine page, added 2 important SMTP notes. One of the notes is about Sender Policy Framework (SPF), which is an extension to SMTP that helps fight email address forgery.
		2004 July 15 As announced here and here, the University of Washington released Pine 4.61, Pico 4.8, and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004a. These include many bug fixes and new features, including: quote-suppression-threshold variable, which tells Pine to hide some, all, or no quoted text in the default MESSAGE TEXT window prune-uses-yyyy-mm feature, which makes Pine use a purely numeric date for a pruned mailbox name extension the ability to bounce forward a message and use a role to specify the SMTP server, the Fcc mailbox, and the Resent-From header. This is useful for 1) updating remote greenlists, bluelists, and other filter-related files that are used by Procmail or Sieve running on a remote system; and 2) ensuring your bounce forwarded messages are not considered forgeries by SPF (Sender Policy Framework). easier procedures for attaching or exporting multiple attachments
		2004 May 10 As announced here and here, the University of Washington released Pine 4.60, Pico 4.7, and and UW IMAP Toolkit version 2004. These include many bug fixes and new features, including: support for Format=Flowed (aka f=f). For discussion about f=f, see the Editor Tips in Step 6D on the Power Pine page. rendering of UTF-8 messages into the user's local character set. support for piping, sending-filters, and display-filters in PC-Pine, which means that PC-Pine users are now able to use external filters such as LOAF. (Unix Pine users have been able to do this for ~10 years.) support for "external categorizer commands" in rules, which means that a rule can pipe a message through an external program and have the rule's action depend on the result of the piped command. support for IMAP keywords (labels). For information about IMAP keywords, see Setting Up Keywords (Labels) on the Power Pine page and this item & the the item below it in the section What to Look For in an IMAP Service Provider on the IMAP Service Providers page. three new commands in mailutil: delete, rename, and prune. mailutil is a command-line tool that helps manage mailboxes. It ships with both Pine and the UW IMAP Toolkit.
		2004 March 19 Maciej Ceglowski announced that he and Joshua Schachter are working on LOAF, a GPL'd distributed-social-network filter that seems to be a robust and private way to greenlist a correspondent and limelist a correspondent (of a correspondent)n, where n=1,2,3, etc. It currently works with Procmail and Pine. (If you are a PC-Pine user, you need to wait for Pine 4.60, which will be the first version of PC-Pine that supports sending-filters; Unix Pine and Mac Pine have supported sending-filters for years.) If you use Pine and Procmail, and would like to help find a general solution to the spam problem, I recommend that you try LOAF and participate in its development. I am collecting LOAF-related links at Del.icio.us / Deflexion.com / Messaging / LOAF.
		2004 February 23 Added a section called Avoiding False Positives With Greenlists and Bluelists to my Procmail Quick Start. If you use Pine for email, you can use your Pine address books, which are discussed in this section of the Power Pine page, to create and maintain procmail-accessible greenlists and bluelists. If you want to do greenlisting entirely within Pine, you can use a Pine filter and the From or ReplyTo is in address book? condition.
		2004 February 19 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen created a graph and table of user agents posting to Gmane and Pine is #7.
		2003 December 24 In this blog item, Russell Beattie blogged about using ssh on a mobile phone and included a picture of Pine running on a mobile phone!
		2003 September 25 Heinz Tschabitscher, of email.about.com, reviewed Pine 4.58 - pinus secura and gave it a rating.
		2003 September 19 and September 3 Added sections named Snagging Viruses and Using SpamAssassin to the Procmail Quick Start: An Introduction to email filtering With a Focus on Procmail.
		2003 September 15 Added four speed tips to the Speeding Up Pine section of Power Pine so there are now a total of 34 speed tips! The new tips are #4, #16, #24, and #25.
		2003 September 10 Pine 4.58 released. This version fixes two exploitable overflows that are in version 4.56 and earlier. To see what else is new, see washington.edu/pine/changes/4.56-to-4.58.html.

The old Pine-related news items that used to be on this page are archived on my Deflexion.com blog on the page called Pre-October-2003 Deflexion & Reflexion from the All About Pine Page.

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