A few days ago, the Hawk Wings list of 254 different stamp icons for Mail.app was dugg.

Before the digg, Mint tells me that 58% of visitors to Hawk Wings use Safari and 27% Firefox.

After the digg—and a fair bit of traffic—those figures are 47% and 37%.

I don’t know what it means, but it’s interesting. Perhaps Firefox users are more social.hawkwings, safari, firefox, digg, what does it all mean?

Hawk Wings is moving moved to a new home at TextDrive today, from one server to another.

The site did disappear for a bit, and is still a bit wobbly. It will bed down though.hawkwings, hosting, textdrive, momentary pause

The USA must be having some kind of holiday. All bloggable news has dried up.

I toyed briefly with the idea of making some news up, but decided that Hawk Wings might as well have a little rest as well.

I hope that you enjoy the break. I know I will.

It is also a time for reflection, so here’s a small contribution from Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (or possibly, Benjamin Franklin):

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

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I almost don’t believe it myself, but I have scored a proper job, posting about Macs for real money.

APC Magazine, one of Australia’s premier IT titles, has launched a swish, revamped web site featuring a number of individually themed blogs. And one of them is mine!

On X Factor , the site’s Apple blog, I’ll be able to get all the non-Mail.app stuff out of my system. There is an X Factor-specific RSS feed .

I have a much wider brief, allowing me to cover “hot new software and hardware, quality freeware and Mac OS X tips and tricks”. I am even allowed to have some opinions. Everything gets done over by a ferocious subeditor, so the quality will be better too.

The site soft-launched today, and you can already find posts there on Gmail tricks with Firefox , a great Take Control book that demystifies running Windows on your Mac with Bootcamp, Q or Parallel Workstation, finding Australian maps to use with Address Book and more.

Of course, it’s exciting for me. But it is also an innovative move in the Australian market.

X Factor is the first substantial and regular commitment to Apple by a mainstream IT publication, which like all the rest is otherwise dominated by Windows and Linux.

I like to think that it is a recognition of Apple’s growing market share and continuing importance as a trend-setter (Check out Mac OS X for a foretaste of Windows Vista, etc, etc). I hope too that it will make a few new friends for Apple as storm troopers from the Dark Side wander into X Factor by mistake.

Best of all, unlike some other offers I’ve had, Hawk Wings is able to continue as usual. This development brings you no relief from the usual torrent of posts about Mail.app, iCal and Address Book and email in general :)personal, hawkwings, apc magazine, apple, windows, X Factor, mail.app, apple mail

Plugins

The Hawk Wings Plug-in and Add-on List has been updated.

CalTalk (sharing calendars over Bonjour) was added to the iCal section.

Address Book to CSV Exporter was added to the Address Book section.

Jumpcut (clipboard extender) and Gmail Counter (tracks disk usage in Gmail accounts) were added to the helpful apps / Miscellaneous Section.

Backend

More props to Brady Frey who performed some graceful surgery on the indexes of Hawk Wings’ MySQL tables last week. Thanks.

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