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Browse E-mail and Internet Reviews

Review: MacScan 2.7 spyware protection software
Although most iPhone users seem satisfied with the smorgasbord of applications delivered by Apple's iPhone App Store, power users yearn for more. Copy and paste...
Delibar makes Delicious bookmarking easy and attractive
Delibar improves greatly on the experience of sharing, accessing, and creating bookmarks for the popular Delicious bookmarking service.
Notify makes it easier to keep an eye on Gmail
Notify sits in your menu bar and monitors your Gmail accounts for new messages.
Readability makes Web pages more readable
Readability is a browser tool that lets you quickly reformat cluttered Web pages for easier reading.
Review: Opera 10 Web browser
Opera 10 introduces several innovative interface ideas, some more useful than others.
Chill Pill brings RSS Fever to your desktop
Fever is a self-hosted RSS reader that offers some unique, powerful features. If Mac users need some incentive to switch away from the competition, Chill Pill may do the trick.
Tweetie for Mac brings excellent iPhone app to the desktop
Tweetie was one of the first popular iPhone clients for Twitter to make the jump back to the Mac. The Mac version has many strengths, including support for multiple accounts and multimedia, but it also has its fair share of quirks.
Review: Firefox 3.5
Firefox has evolved into a beautiful, polished program that’s a pleasure to use. Check out version 3.5.
Review: SpamSweep 1.6.1
If you’re looking for an easy-to-use antispam program, and don’t mind using two applications to handle your e-mail, SpamSweep 1.6.1 is a reasonable alternative. If you prefer a more integrated approach or you’d like more control over the filters used to sort your e-mail, you’ll want to look elsewhere.
ScreenSharingMenulet makes quick work of Screen Sharing
ScreenSharingMenulet gives you an easy-access menu for initiating Screen Sharing connections.
Review: SpamX 4.0
While SpamX remains unparalleled at reporting spammers to their ISPs, and offers a very effective spam filtering solution, all of the problems we noted with version 3 remain with version 4.
Review: Purify 2.1
Purify is a so-called pass-through spam filter that scans and categorizes your e-mail as it arrives—it doesn’t actually trap or block spam, but codes it so that you can then handle it as you wish with your e-mail client of choice.
Review: Personal Antispam X5
Intego's Personal Antispam X5 10.5.2 is a solid anti-spam program, as long as you're using Mail or Entourage (the program supports both POP and IMAP protocols, but only in those two applications).
Review: SpamSieve 2.7
If you're looking for the best Mac-based anti-spam solution, look no further than C-Command's SpamSieve 2.7. The program's filtering is highly accurate, it's relatively simple to install, and it's amazingly easy to use, particularly with Apple Mail.
Cooliris helps showcase photos and videos
Cooliris is a super-handy browser plug-in that lets you scope out images and video content in a unique way, displaying everything in a full-screen, horizontally expanded, interactive 3-D “wall” view.
Web2 Delight lets you easily download videos from YouTube
As great as video sharing Web sites like YouTube are, they often don’t allow you to directly download the videos on their site. Web2 Delight doesn’t just make this possible; it makes the whole process positively painless.
Review: Safari 4 Web browser
If you want the fastest browser on the Mac, Safari 4.0 is the hands-down winner. It lacks the endless flexibility of Firefox’s plug-ins, and it’s far less svelte than its rival browsers, but Safari combines raw power and a thoughtful, well-crafted interface to give Mac users the best user experience.
Tweetube helps you share video on Twitter
Tweetube is a complementary app to the third-party service of the same name that allows you share a variety of media on Twitter.
Precipitate: Search Google Docs using Spotlight
Precipitate is a System Preference pane that lets Spotlight search your Google Docs, Google Bookmarks, and Picasa online photo albums.
Monitor puts regularly visited Web sites within reach
Monitor is a small and lightweight freeware application that seeks to put these regularly visited Web sites within easier reach.
Letter Opener reveals the secrets of winmail.dat files
If you regularly receive winmail.dat files from business associates, Letter Opener is well worth the investment.
GlimmerBlocker blocks Web ads
GlimmerBlocker is an ad blocker that is safe to install because it doesn’t hack Safari.
Review: Mailplane 2.0.9
Google's Gmail e-mail service is hugely popular, but many people don't like the fact that Web-browser-based e-mail just doesn't work the same as a standard e-mail program. Mailplane is a dedicated Gmail client that uses the magic of WebKit--the browser code on which Safari is based--to combine Gmail's native interface with a standalone program that supports many OS X services and features.
Review: SiteGrinder 2 Pro
Graphic artists and designers who are comfortable with mocking up Web sites in Photoshop will love SiteGrinder 2 Pro. This Photoshop plug-in works extremely well at converting layered Photoshop designs into highly functional and respectably coded Web sites.
Review: TimeBridge meeting scheduler
TimeBridge bills itself as a “personal scheduling assistant,” and makes it easy to schedule meetings, regardless of which scheduling tool people are using. Ingenious and well designed, TimeBridge has the potential to be a smart and useful product, but it lacks a few important features.
Safari and iTunes Tweakers
There are a number of hidden settings in the latest versions of Safari and iTunes. These two utilities let you access those settings without having to dive into Terminal.
PDF Browser Plugin 2.3
PDF Browser Plugin gives your Web browser a slew of improved PDF-viewing features.
Review: iSignature for iPhone
iSignature gives you the ability to have six canned signatures for the Mail app in the iPhone and iPod touch. The process for adding them to e-mails is a little awkward, but it’s still a valuable tool for customizing your e-mail.
Promising Prospect: ClickToFlash
If Flash content is dragging Safari down, ClickToFlash is a promising Webkit plug-in that can help you manage Flash in your browser.
Textcast 1.0.2
Textcast is a clever utility that converts text into podcasts for on-the-go listening.