If you’ve ever received an e-mail from a user of Microsoft Outlook connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server and you’re on a Mac, you may have been frustrated by the annoyance that is ‘winmail.dat’. It’s a proprietary attachment format that Microsoft developed years ago and for some reason continue to stick with today, even though their e-mail clients are the only ones that traditionally support it.

Marc Liyanage has written a number of useful little apps and extensions for OSX, others of which will undoubtedly be reviewed here in due course. But for now we’re concentrating on the Open Terminal Here application, which adds a small icon to your Finder toolbar that looks thus;