Just for reference, to use the "Google Search History" widget, you need a gmail acct, and you have to activate the "save search" feature.
Their attitude is a delightful change from what I just saw at a crochet software site:
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Q. When will SymblCro run on the MAC?
A. I have no plans to port SymblCro to the MAC.
Can't tell you what I think, cuz it's not nice.
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The biggest problem is what to do with the mail I have stored on my [whatever] mail account
That's what most email providers hope you'll do. It is a great way to keep you using their address. But it also places your emails at the whim of that company. If the stuff is not important enough to download, why keep it? If it's important enough to keep, why leave it somewhere you may not be able to get? When it gets to the point of being nearly impossible to review, you may end up dumping stuff you really wanted to keep.
ABD (Pot calling the kettle black) 
As for Google "supporting Macs" what's the big deal? They are supposed to be a web-based service. We-based means using standards and making things available to anyone with a computer. Period. Isn't it about time Google did this? As well as for Linix, Sun, etc. I'm not sure they deserve any kind of praise for finally doing what they should have done from the beginning. That's like praising MS for creating a secure OS.
If the stuff is not important enough to download, why keep it? If it's important enough to keep, why leave it somewhere you may not be able to get? When it gets to the point of being nearly impossible to review, you may end up dumping stuff you really wanted to keep.
In the Apple Mail program I can search instantly with Spotlight, even the stuff that's stored online. Having it online also meant automatic backups.
Dan
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In the Apple Mail program I can search instantly with Spotlight, even the stuff that's stored online. Having it online also meant automatic backups.
First, I don't care for Mail. Eudora searches everywhere in my collection of messages. Second, I've never seen Spotlight do anything useful "instantly"
( useful searches usually take time ). Third, you can't use a backup if it's not accessible ( if my on-computer backups aren't accessible, I won't be able to get on-line, anyway ).