Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 276

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 276. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Armour, postal matter or electronic message delivered in 2001.

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Mail

Armour (as in chain mail), postal matter (general meaning) or electronic message (mail) delivered in 2001 (it first appeared in the first version of Mac OS X, inherited from NeXTMail).

2: Originally Minotaur, from first release in 2004 it reads the news as well as the Andersons’ puppets.

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Thunderbird

Originally Minotaur (its original name), from first release in 2004 (version 1.0) it reads the news as well (it’s a news reader too) as the Andersons’ puppets (Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s TV series ‘Thunderbirds’).

3: Those attending the important came with a PIM in 2000, but was replaced by outlook 10 years later.

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(Microsoft) Entourage

Those attending the important (an entourage) came with a PIM (it included personal information manager features) in 2000 (when it was released, in Office 2001), but was replaced by outlook 10 years later (it was tragically replaced by the inferior Outlook in 2010).

The common factor

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They have all been major mail client apps for Mac OS.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.