Many thanks to Daniel Parnell for the continued support of his HTTPMail plugin. An update has been released for Leopard 10.5.3 fixing the Hotmail support for use in the Mail.app. You can download the update HERE. Thanks Daniel.

Today is the release date of Firefox 3. Join the community and help break the download day record by downloading Firefox 3 TODAY. And, while your there check out a launch party.

Myself and many others had a bit of an issue when updating QuickTime to the latest 7.5 release. The updated version played back many of my avi files with video but no audio. The simple solution is to install this QuickTime component, Perian, which is a free open source solution which adds support for various file formats.

Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:

• AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
• Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

  Are you tired of having to open the Dashboard to check your system stats (because you previously installed the iStat Pro widget)? Don't you wish your menu clock had a drop down calendar with iCal event listings?  Check out iStat Menus.  It's a great little app for getting all your system stats right where you can see them, and best of all its FREE.   Works in both Tiger and Leopard. Link.

Here is a useful tip to get the annoying help window out of float mode and into the rear. In the terminal enter the following:   defaults write com.apple.helpviewer NormalWindow -bool true   To revert back to always floating change the "true" to "false" Link to Macworld Article.

Since the latest Leopard update many long time Hotmail users including myself have been having problems retrieving our mail.  There seems to be much confusion as to what the actual reason for these problems.  The Leopard update (10.5.3) which coincidentally overlaps with Microsoft's end of June termination of WebDav creates a second issue. I have been using the HTTPMail Plugin by Daniel Parrnell till now, which has worked wonderfully. However, as of the Leopard update this plugin no longer works and because of the situation with Microsoft even if it is patched it won't work for much longer anyways. Now to the good news!   I came across this solution in the Apple forums which seems to be working smoothly for me so far. Its called IzyMail.

IzyMail enables you to access webmail from major providers such as AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Windows Live, Fastmail or Gmail with any eMail application.

Whether you want to use Gmail, Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, iPhone, Palm PDA, Pocket PC, Smartphone or other applications, whether you want to automate eMail processing with rules or use advanced anti-virus or spam protection, IzyMail provides the technology you need.

This service allowed you to forward your Hotmail mail to another email and it can also remove the mail from the server if you prefer.  There is a free option which checks your mail once every hour but you can also subscribe for a premium service which provides more options. Hope this helps. [digg=http://digg.com/software/Solution_for_Hotmail_and_Leopard_10_5_3_problem]   *UPDATE* - http://soundstechnical.com/2008/06/hotmail-now-working-in-leopard-1053-httpmail-152-released/