Year: 2002

AOL Instant Messenger 4.5.651 is a new version of America Online’s messaging client for Mac OS X. The new version features direct IM support, a new a dock menu, smileys, and more. Additionally, AIM can now be configured to check and monitor a user’s mac.com email address, and users can now sign onto AIM with their mac.com email address and password.

The June issue of Esquire magazine, which has long supported Apple, plugs the company’s wares in its “Man at His Best” column. Among the 23 ways the magazine suggests to “Have fun for under $1 million” is “Make a 30-second ad for yourself using Final Cut Pro 3 ($999) on your brand-new, top-of-the-line Power Mac G4 ($3,849) with a 23-inch flat-panel Cinema HD Display ($3,499), then buy time for it during Malcom in the Middle ($350,000).” More conservative spenders may wish to forgo the Malcom spot.

Tenon today announced that Post.Office, its mail server for Mac OS X, now features list serving capabilities. Post.Office 3.5.3 can handle hundreds of mailing lists with thousands of subscribers. Pricing for Post.Office follows a sliding scale, with a starter package available for US$295 that supports 100 mailboxes and 10 mailing lists. A free version is available that supports 10 mailboxes and two mailing lists.

Entourage Email Archive X is the first Mac OS X release of the application for exporting and archiving email and attachments from Entourage. The software can export mail either in text format or in tab-text format for use with FileMaker Pro. Entourage Email Archive X is US$20 shareware.