Mailplane

Macworld reviews Mailplane and gives it four mice

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Dan Frakes has published an excellent Mailplane review:

One of my favorite features is that you can set up multiple Gmail accounts in Mailplane; select one in the Accounts drawer and click on Switch To, and Mailplane logs you out of the current account and into the new one. (You can’t log in to two accounts at the same time, however.) I also like Mailplane’s keyboard navigation: press Shift+G and a Navigate box pops up; type enough of the name of a Gmail view or label to uniquely identify it, and then press return to jump to that view. You can assign labels to messages and conversations using a similar procedure.

Mailplane receives a great "four mice" rating!

Read the full review at the Macworld site.

Mailplane 2.0.10 released

Release notes:

• UPDATED: Spanish and Chinese (Tranditional & Simplified).
• CHANGE: Renamed executable file back to "Mailplane" as the Video Chat plugin now recognizes Mailplane.
• FIX: Possible crash when unhiding the main window.
• FIX: Command-Shift-D didn't archive if you had the "Send and Archive" lab feature enabled.
• FIX: Disabled Gmail keyboard shortcuts warning didn't work
• FIX: Google Apps accounts were signed out when using Gmail lab features Doc/Calendar Gadgets.
• FIX: Send/Save/Discard commands didn't work correctly with enabled "Send & Archive Gmail lab feature

New Gmail Lab Feature: Google Search right in Gmail

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

There's a new Gmail lab feature. It enables you to "google" inside Mailplane and solves this problem:

I used to have a problem. People would ask me questions, over chat or email, and I'd have to leave Gmail to search Google for an answer. Then I'd have to select the answer, copy it, go back to Gmail and paste the answer into the chat window or my reply. Sometimes I'd get distracted and forget to go back to Gmail, and I'd have to go through it all again when I remembered what I'd been doing.

Once you're sure it's a result you need, moving your mouse over the result back in Gmail reveals a pull-down menu that lets you do stuff with the search result. What's in the menu depends on what you're doing in Gmail:

• If you're reading a message, you can start a reply to the message with the search result as the first thing in your reply.
• If you're writing a message, you can paste the result, or just the URL into your message.
• If you're chatting with someone, you can send the result via chat.
• You can also always compose a new message to send the search result.

Read full blog post on Gmail Blog.

Create your Google Profile

Just found this on the official Gmail blog:

If you want people to be able to contact you, but don't want to reveal your email address to the world, you can hide your username and use a 24 digit number instead. Turn on the 'Send a message' feature, and anyone with a Google Account can send you a message through your profile, without having your email address revealed to them.