Pedro Figueiredo has dumped Mail.app and switched to Entourage at work.

He finds the look of his new email client hard on the eyes (“ffs microsoft, did you employ a colour-blind guy to do that?”) and misses Mail’s search abilities. It’s “giving in to the Dark Side”, he says, only half in jest.

Bryce Zabel just switched to Macs after 20 years of PC use.

He started off using Entourage, because it was part of Office for Mac. But then he realised “that I was holding onto the old ways and if I was going Apple then, dammit, I was going in all the way. Now I use Mail, iCal and Address Book and, for me, I honestly do like them better.” He’s in heaven.switching, entourage, mail.app, apple mail, ical, Address Book, imac

BuddyPop, a hotkey-activated pop-up search utility for Address Book has been updated.

The new version resolves potential conflicts with Address Book plugins by disabling them when BuddyPop is launched.

It also features some interface improvements and will work with the new iMac’s Intel-based USB modem.

BuddyPop is shareware (10 ?¢‚Äö¬¨, USD 12) and is available from the the developer’s web site .hotkey, search, pop-up, iMac, modem, BuddyPop