Nethack has it all- death at every corner, varied game play, logic challenges and ASCII graphics

Nethack is a terminal-based adventure game of incredible complexity and engrossing minutiae- metal objects rust in water, objects bounce off walls, pet dogs steal, tripe tastes awful and bad things happen when you offend the gods…

There are a few plugins and hacks that I think are essential for Apple’s Mail.app.

• perfect new mail notification: Mail.appetizer
• pretty UI: mailstamps
• mail organising tools: MailActOn and MailTags
• Speech and tardis sounds when new mail arrives

There is an underwhelming choice of email clients for mac os x. Mail, Mailsmith, GyazMail and Thunderbird are ones that spring to mind and good reviews of their comparative merits exist. My belief is that the desire of developers to make a new email client is low because Mail.app is actually quite a good product and difficult to compete with- good but not great- it can do with a few improvements…