Philip Wittamore http://www.wittamore.com/index.php Copyright 2010, Philip Wittamore Philip Wittamore en-US SPHPBLOG 0.5.1 The Bat! vs. Thunderbird http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100829-105944
Now why would anyone buy The Bat! when free mail clients like Thunderbird exist ?

I work in two languages, English and French. The Bat! allows me to check the language used by the sender, and use the corresponding language template for the reply. A template can contain macros from the hundreds of macros available: set the date in French, clean up the subject line when it has multiple fwd: tags in different languages, quote the senders message and add the senders initials to the quoted line ( for example: PW> blah blah...) adapt the signature, and lots more.

So really the difference for me between The Bat! and Thunderbird is that The Bat! is geared towards professional mail users who don't mind tweaking it to death, whereas Thunderbird is more of a one-size-fits-all solution.

]]> Software http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100829-105944 Philip Wittamore Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:59:44 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=08&entry=entry100829-105944 Facebook Age http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100808-191807 ]]> http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100808-191807 Philip Wittamore Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:18:07 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=08&entry=entry100808-191807 Back to Powerbasic http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100801-083827

I've just finished a demo application in Powerbasic. The original application, a COM client, was written in VB6. The problem I had with duplicating it in Powerbasic is that PB doesn't support safearray's natively. Thankfully a genius by the name of José Roca has worked it out already. His safearray WIN32API is a pure marvel: http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum ... oard=344.0
]]> Computers http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100801-083827 Philip Wittamore Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:38:27 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=08&entry=entry100801-083827 Defragging your VM http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100728-174624 ultradefrag

]]> Computers http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100728-174624 Philip Wittamore Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:46:24 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=07&entry=entry100728-174624 Le Corniaud http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100728-105308 An epic trip from Naples to Bordeaux in a cadillac with gold, heroin and diamonds on board. Music / 2CV scene



]]> French Films http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100728-105308 Philip Wittamore Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:53:08 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=07&entry=entry100728-105308 Powerbasic http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100727-181140

When I was a lad I wrote programs in basic on my Sinclair ZX81, As I remember the lack of RAM on this revered ancestor limited any programs to about 10 lines. A subsequent upgrade to the Amstrad CPC offered more memory, and Locomotive Basic, with which I proceeded to write a Morse decoder. It actually worked - I was able to read a few shortwave radio morse messages from the French Navy in Toulon at one point.

Then a PC arrived and Borland's TurboBasic was the killer basic. When Borland stopped distributing it, the original creator, Bob Zale bought it back and renamed it Powerbasic.

Anyway, a couple of years back I bought a version to whip up a quick project demo, and saw that it was full of goodness as it did the job quickly without a steep learning curve.

Winding back to today, Powerbasic has released Version 9, and has added OOP among other things, so I've upgraded for fun and am presently poking around with it.

I just wish I'd had it on my ZX81...

]]> Computers http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100727-181140 Philip Wittamore Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:11:40 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=07&entry=entry100727-181140 Greenhouse Jersey Web Site http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100726-184243

My friend Conrad has unfortunately closed his shop, but he continues to spread the green word via his web site, www.greenhousejersey.com

I've revamped the site to make it easier for customers to navigate and select the ecological and free-trade articles he has for sale.


]]> My Web Sites http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100726-184243 Philip Wittamore Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:42:43 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=07&entry=entry100726-184243 Vistasource Web Site http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100726-150229

Vistasource, Inc's web site. Clean and business-like.
I also made a new logo for the company, as the previous one was made in the dot com boom and didn't reflect Vistasource's present status.

]]> My Web Sites http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100726-150229 Philip Wittamore Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:02:29 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=07&entry=entry100726-150229 New Blog http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100725-175809 so as Facebook is out of the question, here is my very own blog.

NewsWire
Let's face it, Facebook is turning into an idiot box that eats up much of your productive time as the television. .... Don't forget all the data harvesting that Facebook has been accused of,
]]> General http://www.wittamore.com/index.php?entry=entry100725-175809 Philip Wittamore Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:58:09 GMT http://www.wittamore.com/comments.php?y=10&m=07&entry=entry100725-175809