Gmail Tip: How to send “subject only” messages
Sunday, October 26, 2008
If you add "EOM" (end of message) to the end of your subject, Gmail will not complain about an empty message text. This allows you to quickly send short subject only email messages like "Coffee at 9:30? EOM". Official Gmail blog entry
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Mailplane 2.0 Beta 10 Released
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Mailplane 2.0 beta 10 has just been released. Use "Mailplane->Check for update" from the menu or download the latest version from the download page.
New Translations
- New: Icelandic by Páll Svansson
- New: Italian by Monica Cainarca http://www.mctranslation.com
- Updated: German by Patrick Scheips http://www.simple-dev.de/
- Updated: Japanese by mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine) http://mitcho.com
Improvements
- Now works under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Developer Preview
- Download window redesign
Bug Fixes
- Unicode files (Japanese, Korean, Chinese etc.) were downloaded as ???????.doc
- Crash when composing a message and switching back to overview
- main window didn't refresh when opening a conversation in a detached window (via growl or menu bar items)
- main window wans't brought to focus when opening a mailplane URL
- Remembered detached window size wasn't applied when using SHIFT-Click on Compose or Reply links
- Remapped Edit->Undo to Cmd-Opt-Control-Z because of the Cmd-Z crash. Cmd-Z will still work in the message body, as it directly handled by it.
- Send keyboard shortcut and attachments didn't work because of Gmail changes
- French users experienced a Display problem in the download window: The cancel button was too big.
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How Do I Unmute a Gmail Conversation?
Monday, October 20, 2008
Yesterday, I discovered that I had accidentally muted an important conversation. I found no obvious way to undo it. This lifehacker blog post points to the solution:
To un-mute a conversation, select the conversation and click Move to inbox. Doing so will move the entire conversation to your inbox and will remove the mute action, so that future messages are also delivered to your inbox.
Muting conversations is very handy, by the way. From the Gmail help pages:
If you're subscribed to a mailing list, you've no doubt been subjected to the 'thread that just won't die!' If you're part of a long message conversation that isn't relevant, you can 'mute' the conversation to keep all future additions out of your inbox. By using the 'm' shortcut key, new messages added to the conversation bypass your inbox so that the conversation stays archived. If your address appears in the to or cc field, though, the conversation will pop back into your inbox ready for your attention. Muted messages are not marked as read, are still searchable, and can specifically be found by searching for:
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Mailplane 1.61.7 Released
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Some users experienced two new bugs, they were caused by some recent Gmail changes:
- Gmail 007 error
- "Could not connect to Gmail" when loading Gmail inbox
Please use the "Mailplane->Check for updates" menu item to load the new version, or visit the download page to get it.
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Cali Lewis loves Mailplane
Friday, October 10, 2008
Cali Lewis is one of the early Mailplane users; she discovered Mailplane in the 1.0 beta days. Back then she even presented Mailplane in one of her famous video podcasts. She is still using Mailplane and just blogged about it:
I tweeted today about an application I use and love, Mailplane. It’s an application that allows you manage multiple Gmail accounts very effectively. You can see when new emails come into a different account without logging in and out, and you switch between accounts with a double click of your mouse. It uses the Gmail interface, so all your labels and filters stay in tact.
And on Twitter:
Yeah! I'm finally convincing Neal to use Mailplane! It's a lifesaver for me.
Check out the full blog post.
Or watch the original geekbrief video podcast.
Cali Lewis is the producer and host of geekbrief.tv the site for Shiny and Happy Tech News. It’s a 3-5 minute video podcast, released 4 days a week. If love news about technology, consumer electronics, and Web 2.0 projects: checkout geekbrief.tv.
Keep up the good work, Cali!
