Suddenly there’s a glut of news. Here are today’s other notable happenings and links in compressed form:

• Paul Stamatiou has switched from Thunderbird to Mail.app. Thunderbird is just too slow on an Intel Mac. He provides the benchmarks and finds that he is warming to Mail.app’s “sleek design”.
• Leander Kahney discovers the latest build of Quicksilver. “It’s kind of like Spotlight on steroids, but the steroids have begun to affect the brain,” he says .
• Brent Simmons, the developer of NetNewsWire, has added Hawk Wings to the app’s list of pre-selected Macinstosh feeds (which was nice of him).
• Dizplay ze grand attachments? Absolument, Non! Mail Attachment Iconizer gets a French localisation .
• Joe Kissell will be joining TidBITS as Senior Editor . Hawk Wings follows Joe’s career with interest, not least because he is the author of the only book dedicated solely to Apple Mail.