New & Noteworthy: Nisus Email; REALbasic; public wireless; MacScripter's Magazine; more

Nisus Email 1.5 is an email client that can edit, write, send, manage email via any text editor. This release adds fast email and text search options, a resizable Instant Window, and a customizable attribution option. Also added: Attachments can now be viewed, added, and deleted, a new global recipient greeting, a filtering option to allow filters to be applied to either incoming or outgoing emails, and faster email parsing.

REALbasic 3.1b2 is available.

Bay Area wireless proliferating Airwave continues to connect coffee shops and other public places with Airport-compatible wireless service. Ever since we discovered a coffee shop near us that has an Airport base station, we have been keeping an eye out for places to check our email via a broadband connection while traveling in another city. Here is a list of Airwave's present and future locations, which covers several cities from San Francisco and San Jose.

MacScripter's Magazine The 4th issue of this free multimedia e-zine covers persistent< variables, droplets, and text processing (with Leonard Rosenthol's Regex osax).

LogotypeMaker 2.0 adds boolean sorting of fonts, typesetting of user-selected fonts, new preferences for print margins, appending font lists, a new undo/redo command, drag and drop support, a slide show, and more.

Warbirds III Demo An open beta is available for this 3-D flight sim with fairly high hardware requirements.