Eudora is going to be based on the Thunderbird platform beginning in 2007. I say: too little, too late. As someone forced to use Eudora because it supports one feature I need, I’m happy to leave it behind. It’s a throwback to choppy OS9 development, with a counterintuitive UI, kitchen-sink style preferences, and strange redraw bugs that never get fixed. I’ll be moving to Mail.app in a week or two, and I can’t wait.

I get a bunch of e-newsletters each week, and one of them recommended the Take Control of your Fonts in OS X eBook. We’ve had headaches with fonts over the last year, and I haven’t found one good repository for repair advice; this one seems to be pretty thorough. I’ll have a better review after I finish it.

I’ve been using a nice little app called On The Job for the past couple of weeks, and it makes keeping track of work much easier. Daring Fireball mentioned Billable this morning, and after I watched the demo, I’m considering a switch—plaintext exporting, editable HTML for the generated invoice and Address Book integration are three things which have me very interested.

Apparently, on the PC, to set a correct apostrophe, use the NumLock key, and type alt+0146. It doesn’t look like it works in Flash MX though. Use this link and the popup instead. I wish I had MX on my Mac, which is smart enough to do this automatically.

Chicken Little! Chicken Little! It’s funny how Dell got slammed last week with this story, and now Apple’s getting front page news about it. Seems to me like Sony is the company who should be getting a kick in the ass. Luckily, my battery is not in the affected serial range.

Gizmodo reviews a SanDisk thumb drive and it sounds pretty nice. Except for that Mac-incompatible part.

Hey, this is cool. Skype Beta for OSX, finally. Talk to your family and friends for free over the internets. Almost makes the Cisco IP phone here on my desk obsolete.

This little gizmo is a Firewire-based bootable flash drive which runs TechTool Pro. Genius.

Handling “overlapped extent allocation” errors reported by Disk Utility. One file overwrites another and the whole thing goes boom. Basically, if you’re not on 10.4.2 or better, you’re hosed, buddy.

Publish calendars without .Mac in iCal. I haven’t tried this particular solution, but I’d wager it works. I’d rather have webDAV working on a local server here at the office, but I’ve never had luck getting it to work. Not for lack of trying, though. This could be cool, if it works.