Comments on: 24 hours with my new MacBook http://foilhat.org/2008/01/19/24-hours-with-my-new-macbook/ put on your tinfoil hat. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:33:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tobia http://foilhat.org/2008/01/19/24-hours-with-my-new-macbook/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Tobia Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:46:43 +0000 http://www.foilhat.org/2008/01/19/24-hours-with-my-new-macbook/#comment-105 I agree 100% on all the points you make about Terminal.app One thing I found useful is this dirty hack to change the ANSI text colors: http://www.culater.net/software/TerminalColors/TerminalColors.php I use settings similar to the builtin Pro, as you do, and I found the default text colors less than optimal: they are too dark. Fortunately this plugin lets you set as bright colors as your screen can display, giving excellent readability. About Mail.app threads: yes, it's frustrating, but you can enable and disable threading per folder (enabling it on discussion mailing list, disabling it in your inbox and logwatch folders…) I agree 100% on all the points you make about Terminal.app

One thing I found useful is this dirty hack to change the ANSI text colors:
http://www.culater.net/software/TerminalColors/TerminalColors.php
I use settings similar to the builtin Pro, as you do, and I found the default text colors less than optimal: they are too dark. Fortunately this plugin lets you set as bright colors as your screen can display, giving excellent readability.

About Mail.app threads: yes, it’s frustrating, but you can enable and disable threading per folder (enabling it on discussion mailing list, disabling it in your inbox and logwatch folders…)

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