in system prefs/speech/text to speech/customize I downloaded Serena and Emily -- from Uk voices. they are quite nice to listen to. just highlight any text in any app and press option-esc. it's good to use for proofreading your stuff back to you. Jill and Samantha are pretty pleasant for american-english. there's a script now too to "add to iTunes as spoken track" under the Services menu.

just some tips -- not sure what this app does. could be a 5-star app, i don't know.

this makes the little widget,Translation, apple throws in for free seem all the more valuable. apple’s Translation does a pretty good job at translating ~10 of the most common languages. google translate translates ~70 languages -- http://translate.google.com/. there is also a toolbar button for safari called Translate (it's excellent) from side tree software which uses google translate to translate web pages on the fly which can be found at the safari extensions page. similar extensions/add-ons can be found for any browser that does extentions/add-ons. also, there's quite a few translation apps for under $10.00 US at the app store -- many under $2.00 US.

i haven't tried Easy Translator but it must be the best of its kind for the asking price -- maybe for professional use. just wanted to list some free/inexpensive alternatives if your life doesn’t depend on getting it exactly right. you know — if your “chatting” with your Thai “girlfriend.”

last night sometime late and after midnight on May 5, i saw Email Archiver was listed as free in the Store News app — said it was previously $9.99US. so i clicked on Email Archiver in the Store News app which then opened up the App Store app and it was, and still is as of May 5, listed as free. i couldn’t find any good reviews in the App Store app so i came here to macupdate and at that time there were no reviews and the app was listed as $9.99US — but it is listed as free now. the developer’s website says it’s $9.99US and only available at the App Store. so this is all confusing. if you think you might have a need for an app like this one, i would dl it now while it is free and you can always trash it later if it doesn’t do what you need it to do.

i’ve been keeping an eye out for a good email archiving app as of late and was hoping i could find some good, thorough reviews for Email Archiver but have found none. there is a pretty straight-forward 5-page pdf here: http://www.spotdocuments.com/downloads/EmailArchiverManual.pdf
but i was really wanting some first-hand accounts from people who have used this app.

i like the way Email Archiver claims to save emails as pdfs. the manual also tells how to keep Email Archiver from making duplicate pdfs for imap email accounts like google.

i have about 7,000 emails in 7 different email accounts and would like to archive each email account in its own folder. i downloaded Email Archiver and would be interested in any feedback from someone who has used it — i haven’t yet. i would also be interested in hearing about any alternative archiving email clients from users, free or paid, as i am ready to make a move to start archiving my emails. Email Archiver looks promising but i don’t think it can archive individual email accounts yet.

as a side note, here’s an interesting article on how to make gmail play well with Apple Mail: http://www.macworld.com/article/157846/2011/03/mailgmail.html#lsrc.nl_macweek_t_crawl

i know macupdate has the best reviewers and people who know really good applications. it is my hope one of you will wonder across my comment and have some time to leave some information on email archiving applications.

hi Albabe,

yeah i would like to help you out very much. i need to know a little information to start out. first please tell me your specific computer model. you said 2.0 G5 PCC — do you mean 2GHz G5 PCC Tower? if you’ll look in the Apple System Profiler and tell me what it says under Model Name and Model Identifier, i can then look it up in Mactracker and find all the information i need about the machine you are currently using.

then just tell me what questions you have on your mind. i’m not sure exactly what you meant by the question you asked.

i have some time this weekend and i will help you more than you asks. if you don’t get this message by this weekend, just give me a little time to reply please.

i will post a throw-away email for you to reach me and from there give you one of my real emails so we don’t take up space here at macupdate.

i can say if you do have a 2GHz PCC Tower, that that’s a nice machine and you can do a lot with it.

there are many people at macupdate much smarter than i, but i’m all about helping people in the mac community and would be glad to help in any way i can.

and the update to 2.2.4 did fix. what an incredible update. for quick access to the prefs you can use option-comma (,).

option-, makes the prefs appear and go away.