This week Address Book and iCal get the lion’s share of the additions to the Hawk Wings Plugin and Addon List.

The following items were added to the Address Book section:

• AddressBookQuickEntry (an alternate entry interface for contact information)
• AusAB (maps, travel directions and Sydney public transport times for Australian addresses)
• iAddressX (Address Book menubar utility)

The following were added to the iCal section:

• DoBeDo (a Dashboard widget for iCal ToDos)
• iCalViewer (“Streaming” desktop iCal events and ToDos)
• MenuCalendarClock (menubar utility for you iCal calendar, clock and ToDo and event information)

Mail.app itself scored two extra entries:

• anentry (AppleScript to email a NetNewsWire headline) in the Integration with other Apps section
• NetShred X (history and cache shredder for Mail.app and browsers) in the Added Functionality section

These additions bring the number of entries on the list to a round 120, all making Mail.app, Address Book and iCal easier, more efficient, more productive and (possibly) more fun to use.

Tags: addon, Address Book, applescript, Australian addresses, calendar, contact, Dashboard, events, iCal, mail.app, maps, menubar, NetNewsWire, plugin, ToDo, utility, widget

Emailchemy is a conversion utility that “reads mailboxes from the proprietary formats of the most popular (and many of yesterday’s forgotten) email applications and converts it to a standard, portable format that any application can use.”

It already converts from an astonishing range of source formats into an equally astonishing range of target formats. (See earlier Hawk Wings post for a full list).

A new version has been released which adds support for CompuServe2000 for Windows, CompuServe for Macintosh (aka “CompuServe Classic” or “MacCIM“) and Musashi. It also contains GUI improvements and minor bugfixes.

It was once free for a one-off use, but now seems to be shareware (USD 25). It is available from the developer’s web site.

Tags: CompuServe, conversion, MacCIM, mailbox, Musashi, utility