March 2008 Archives

When you configure a virtual machine in VMWare Fusion by default it runs the machine with one virtual processor.

I was curious to see if running with two processors would make a difference so I ran a quick test using my software build time as a benchmark. Runing with a single processor the build time was 140 seconds, running with two it dropped to 118 seconds, a decrease of about 15%.

The beta release of Mail Print 2 is now available for download from www.mail-print.com/content/beta

Mail Print 2.0 is a ground up rewrite, no existing code has been used in the new version. This has allowed us to make some significant changes however it does mean existing settings will not be migrated.

Mail Print now uses the concept of actions to control the printing of emails, actions exist for printing messages, printing message attachments, playing a sound and deleting messages from the server.

Rules are more flexible and similar to what you would see in a traditional email client like Outlook or Thunderbird.

The main printing within Mail Print is now handled by a service which runs in the background. This means Mail Print can continue to work without having a user logged in or be run on a server in a back office.