Mac 101: Create Custom Email Stationery
Have you used Mail’s stationery and thought that it was too limiting or did not appeal to your tastes? With a simple save button, you can create your own stationery to be exactly the way you want it. Just create a new Mail message, filling in the body as you see fit — use special formatting, colors, even filler text.
When you have completed your stationery template, click File > Save As Stationery. A dialog box will prompt you to name your new creation. Enter a descriptive title and click “Save.” Your new stationery will appear under “Custom” whenever you click the “Show Stationery” button in a new mail message. Clicking your template name will automatically recreate your template in the body of the new message.
This is handy for businesses or individuals who need to have custom formatted emails, and need them to be uniform each time they send them.
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Pangea updates Enigmo for iPhone to 1.1.1, adds downloadable content
Over the past day, Pangea Software has issued two updates for their Enigmo physics game for the iPhone/iPod touch. The updates in question (1.1 and 1.1.1) allow you to download custom levels from Pangea’s website via the application.
Be sure to sync your iPhone and complete the backup process before updating Engimo, as the saved game deletion issues continue to be a concern. Pangea has officially acknowledged the issue, and offers backups as a solution. You can download/buy Enigmo from the App Store (iTunes link). [pangeasoft]
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Tip: Make iPhone ringtones with GarageBand
An earlier post about PocketMac Ringtone Studio for iPhone reminded me of how I put together ringtones for my iPhone. I just fire up GarageBand and iTunes, do a little quick magic, and out come the ringtones I want.
This doesn’t work with protected files such as those you’ve purchased from the iTunes Store — hell, Apple wants you to spend $0.99 for the tune and another $0.99 to turn it into a ringtone. The method described here works very well turning those CD snippets that you’ve ripped into iTunes into ringtones. Follow along after the break for the step-by-step. Read the rest of this entry
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Minefield offers custom builds of Firefox 3
If you think Firefox could run a little faster on your Mac, then you might want to download one of BeatnikPad’s custom builds of Firefox 3. “Minefield” (previously known as BonEcho for pre-3.0 releases) is Neil Lee’s custom build of Firefox. He is currently offering custom builds for:
- Minefield (Firefox) 3.0 for Intel
- Minefield (Firefox) 3.0 for PowerPC G5
- Minefield (Firefox) 3.0 for PowerPC G4
Neil Lee has been offering custom builds of Firefox for many years now. They can make Firefox run a bit faster and smoother on older Macs. You can download them for free (though donations are accepted) from the BeatnikPad website.
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PocketMac Ringtone Studio for iPhone
Information Appliance Associates, the company that brought us the PocketMac series of sync software, has announced PocketMac Ringtone Studio for iPhone.
While the $14.95 application doesn’t do anything that you can’t already do with GarageBand and a little bit of knowledge, it does make creation of custom iPhone ringtones a lot easier. You can drag any unprotected music or QuickTime movie file to PocketMac Ringtone Studio, select a 30-second bit for the ringtone, and then export the ringtone into the iTunes “Ringtones” folder. The video above shows the entire process, along with a strange “jazz and random banging on the piano” soundtrack.
There are some other alternatives available for creating your own ringtones:
- Rogue Amoeba’s MakeiPhoneRingtone (free)
- Ambrosia Software’s iToner (free to try, $15 to buy)
As usual, the PocketMac folks offer a 90-day “no questions” money back guarantee on their software.
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