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I sent yolospat an email just today with a link to a website (and a set of tools) that I had discovered while searching for a way to delay send from Mail.app. I told her that I had settled on Mail.app because (a) my new boss preferred me to use the work email address over GMail and (b) Thunderbird had issues that I couldn’t bother to handle and (c) Postbox had started giving me issues that I couldn’t handle.

I have to admit that I didn’t really recall the issues that I had encountered with Postbox and it was after I had sent the mail and sat around resting that I realized this. I dismissed it without giving it the customary second try that I normally do before completely dismissing something.

So I went and found Postbox on the Macbook – already installed, I might add – and fired it up. I have to say that there are already things about that I prefer to Mail.app, not the least of which is how it handles message templates. I am thinking that another test run is in order on the iMac.

Of course, I am wracked out in the recliner wanting to go get on the iMac and set it up but the pain (and the lesson of over-doing it yesterday) keeps me from getting up. I soothed my geek-go with blogging instead.

And as I type that, I feel shame. When did blogging for me become second-choice in activities? Not a few weeks ago, I was blogging up a storm on a daily basis … even days in advance, I would have blog posts lined up ready to go. Now, it’s fallen so far back in my To Do list, that I often don’t get that far in a day. Sad.

In other news, a twitter @ reply alerted me to the fact that Chrome’s extensions were more stable now. I fired up Chrome and found that there are indeed a couple of extensions available for Mac … or so they say. If you attempt to install one, you of course get the error “Extensions not available”. Then, while I am crying over spilt milk, I noticed that the Bookmark Manager is actually an option on the menu now, just greyed out. So I downed the dev channel version yet again and found that not only is the Bookmark Manager active in the dev channel, but so is the bookmark sync! The last obstacle to my using Chrome as my main browser was the tendency for XMarks to hang the browser completely. Wewt! If the built-in sync now works, I am all set. Lastpass works, bookmark sync works … “Set Google Chrome as your default browser” button .. here I come!

And while I am messing around with that stuff, I see that Google Buzz arrived in my Inbox finally – a whole 24+ hours later. I guess I should be happy – lots of people haven’t seen hide nor hair of it yet. And as predicted, I was just as unimpressed as I was with FriendFeed. Too noisy. I’ll hang onto it until a few more of my friends actually get on and use it once or twice, but I suspect I shall be muting most of the activity and possibly just opting-out altogether. The only problem with opting-out is if Google improve the product, I don’t get to sample it. Oh well. Still trying to figure out what they were thinking about anyway – Buzz is nothing new.