TUAW wants to know: What, if anything, do you miss about Mac OS 9?

By Laurie A. Duncan

I had to spend some quality time in OS 9 yesterday and found it maddening. I left a desktop full of untitled folders in my wake, while all I
wanted was to open a new finder window. Still there are a few things I miss about the classic OS.

Like Jeff Adkins over at Low End Mac, I miss tabbed folders. I
have found a lovely piece of shareware called Sticky Windows that enables them in OS X, but it's not quite as good as the real thing. I also miss having a real Location Manager. Again, there are
shareware apps and
AppleScripts that provide most of that functionality, but it's not the same.

What I really miss the most, however, is not a feature of the OS, but an application that I relied on for a great many years and continued using in Mac OS X's Classic environment for a full year after switching to OS X in every other way:
Claris Emailer. As much as I love
Entourage, it will never fully replace Emalier for me. To this day, no other email client even comes close.

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