For those who use Skype, they will be disappointed when it stops working. I have some good free Skype for Mac alternatives that can be even better than Skype in some situations.
The main Mac client application that I suggest is Gizmo Project with you can download here. Gizmo is a free phone for your computer but is open source – so isn’t controlled by one company.
I often have use for this free skype for Mac alternative. Try Gizmo today!
I did a test yesterday for that 24 hour period. I knew that I get HEAPS of email spam (junk mail) that I didn’t request. Over the 1 day I got 160 junk emails. Thanks to Google’s email system (Gmail), nearly all of these were trapped and weren’t downloaded to my machine.
Thanks big G!
At times we have been looking for things to buy from ebay. We tried a few times to win the online auction but always failed. That was until we downloaded and used JBidWatcher.
“This is a Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you’re not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (yen, pound, dollar (US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese), Swiss Francs, and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction URLs, a unique and powerful ‘multisniping’ feature, a relatively nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Windows, Solaris, and MacOSX from the same binary.”
I am very happy with my 15″ Powerbook made by Apple. We purchased it over 3 years ago and mostly it hasn’t missed a beat.
Recently though it stopped accepting any CD’s or DVD’s so we will have to get that replaced shortly – about $600 to get it working again – AAHH!
The only other thing that is a bit negative is that the battery now only lasts up-to 15 minutes. We might buy a new one at some stage too.
Over the past few months I have been using the paid version of Direct Mail, a simple list management program.
Direct Mail is the best mailing list management and mail delivery software for Mac OS X. Its user-friendly interface and powerful mail delivery engine let you stay in touch with your contacts quickly and easily  without worrying about the details of mail server configurations.
I am very impressed with what it does and how it works. The developers are continually developing it so there are updates every few weeks.
A nice effective stable application to aid in sending out newsletter to my friends. Try it yourself.
