A smart mail box will allow you to filter out messages from the unwanted elements (e.g.- your Facebook buddies) while dialing in messages from more relevant sources (say, your boss) without losing the Internet connection which has become for many of us professional lifeblood. It’s an easy way to stop the deluge and get exactly the e-mail you want in one location without any of the stress, fuss or un-friending that you would normally have to deal with in order to get that level of piece and quiet.

It’s hard to get by with just one e-mail account these days. With so many free options available, there’s no reason you wouldn’t want to set separate accounts up for business, personal matters, site registration (a good way to avoid SPAM), and so on. Thankfully, Apple’s Mail program makes it very easy to set up and manage multiple accounts. If you’ve never accessed your account settings beyond Mac OS X’s initial set of questions, here’s what to do…

Many years ago, back when lamp-style iMacs were cool and iPods came in only one color, Apple promoted a vision of the Mac as the hub of the then-emerging “digital lifestyle.” With so much of the spotlight on iPhone OS products, there has not been a clear central pillar of this digital hub strategy. The recent release of Snow Leopard for Mac users, coupled with the just-announced iTunes 9, has refocused the digital hub strategy squarely on the Mac, and brought a wide audience some extremely cool features.

Apple currently ships a ton of full-fledged programs with Mac OS X. Safari, Mail, iChat, Address Book, and iCal are all great examples. As the operating system paradigm shifts, though, I think Apple could be the one to pull these apps all together into one really useful application that many people would rarely ever leave.

TUAW has uncovered, by way of a tipster, a pretty cool rumor-starting dialog in Mail’s Notes app. Normally, in any text editor on the Mac, highlighting some text and hitting the key combo Command + B will make your text bold. If you try this is Notes, however, you get to start a rumor a more »

According to Ars Technica, Steve Jobs sent an e-mail to Apple employees last night admitting that MobileMe was launched too early.

“It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store,” said Jobs.

More after the break.

If you’d like to know the current health of Steve Jobs, you might be out of luck. But, if you want to know the health of MobileMe, then you might want to check out the new page called Status in the MobileMe section of Apple’s site. I think the blogger who is responsible for the more »

The Keynote may be the main attraction at WWDC, but there is always much more to come even after Steve leaves the stage. In today’s WWDC happenings, the Apple team detailed the server version of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. The following comes from a MacNN report. “As with [Consumer Version of Mac OS 10.6], more »

Gizmodo has done some looking around iPhone Firmware 2.0, and has found a great feature in the 2.0 Safari. Tapping and holding on an image, as you can currently do with links to see the URL they point to, provides the option of saving the image to your iPhone. Once saved, you can do with more »

For those of you who use Gmail IMAP in Mail as I do, you are probably just as annoyed with one thing- the new messages counter always reads twice the actual number. This is because the message is sent to both your inbox and the folder titled “Gmail” or “All Mail”. Just put the following into Script Editor, and voila!

tell application “Mail”  set unreadBox to mailbox “[Gmail]/All Mail” of account “Gmail IMAP”  set unreadCount to unread count of unreadBox  if unreadCount is not 0 then    repeat unreadCount times      set unreadMail to first message of unreadBox whose read status is false      set read status of unreadMail to true    end repeat  end ifend tell