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Tuesday, November 5, 2002

Chimera 0.6 is out -- Comment()
Yesterday I wrote about using Chimera 0.5 for browsing the web. Today a new stable version was released, see the Chimera project page. The new version works ok, but I have had one crash of the program. (Everything else continued to work, and Chimera started up all right after the crash, so nothing was corrupted.) Tabbed browsing is still the number one feature of the program, although the speed is also nice.

Huevos developments -- Comment()
inessential.com writes: "Huevos ideas. I get a fair amount of email about how Huevos should allow one to choose a search engine from the keyboard. I agree completely. [...] What I’m thinking right now is that it would be best to allow the user to assign command keys to the various search engines. Google, for instance, might be cmd-G. You’d assign command keys through the Prefs window, the same place you edit your search engines."

This seems to be a nice idea. I like Huevos, because it is small and does one thing well. Would it be possible to make Huevos interface with Amazon.com also?

Effectivity of the Mail spam filter -- Comment()
Yesterday I received 23 spam e-mail, and 19 of those were blocked by the spam filter in Apple's Mail program. And three of the non-recognized messages were identical, so basically only two messages out of 23 managed to slip through. This is nice.

These days spam is practically no nuisance at all for me. I have written before about the success of the Mail spam filter . The Mail spam filter is a convincing reason to start using the Mail program.