I hate this. Murphy laughs when you announce a release.

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Boy, the difference between the PowerBook I had on loan and the one that I just purchased is striking. The one I had on loan was of the first generation of TiBooks, and the current one is the latest generation, and the fit and finish is even better.

The first TiBook didn't like to be on unsteady surfaces, like my lap. It had a nasty habit of losing power when I needed it the most. I got used to seeing the system date set to some time in 1969. And the DVD drive made me a little nuts -- if a disk was spun up and I rested my hand over it (which is standard operating procedure if you want to type on the keyboard), the case would flex just enough to make contact with the spinning disc, resulting in a very scary sound. It never seemed to damage the discs, but it was disturbing none the less.

The new TiBook is solid as a rock, and the SuperDrive uses a completely different mechanism for loading and holding the disc. I have yet to feel as if I was in danger of destroying the disc while it was spun up.

The increase in screen resolution between the two is interesting. The original TiBook had a resultion of 1152x768, and felt roomy, but I still liked the extra real estate gained by hiding the dock. The new TiBook is 1280x854, and the extra space gives me just enough room to keep the dock unhidden, without feeling like I'm wasting space.

It's just nice. I've mentioned before how much I like Apple's industrial design, and the new TiBook just confirms it.

All this just so I could see if the #imageAlign "left" directive works correctly.

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It also looks like the images are getting doubly uploaded; once to the /images/mailEdit/... directory, which is where they are supposedto be going, and another time to just the /images/ directory, which would be bad, because we could end up with a potential filename collision (which is why I was putting them in a date-oriented subdirectory to begin with).

Dig dig dig.

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I'm actually hoping they will be above one another.

I'm fairly certain that this testing stuff is kind of boring.

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Which it does quite well.

However, if you try to #get that post for editting, you'll notice that the "imageAlign" directive is not returned correctly. As a work around, you'll just have to supply the imageAlign directive again. At least until I get back home to fix it.

This is going to bug me all day. I guess I need a version of MailEdit for remote code editing.

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Actually, it's not -quite- time to ship. I want more people to give it a try, and use it in ways that I haven't anticipated, to try and shake out more bugs.

I'm fairly proud of the preferences pages I've set up for the tool. They catch some common errors, and I hope they do a pretty good at explaining what each setting does.

The best part is the future potential. I've laid the groundwork for a general mimetype handling system, although right now it's just for images. I want to be able to handle pretty much any attachment type, and I've got a table that maps mimetypes to actions (actually, right now it just maps mimetypes to file extensions so I know what to point the image link at).

So, to sum up, expect a general Beta announcement soon, and perhaps I can go gold this weekend.

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