Using ScreenSteps with Mailplane
Monday, December 21, 2009
ScreenSteps is a great application for creating step-by-step documentation and knowledge bases. It makes it easy to capture screenshots, annotate them with text and arrows, add text and explanation and finally export the complete article in different formats like PDF or HTML.
The latest version now neatly integrates with Mailplane. With the push of button a complete PDF document is exported and easily attached to an email message:
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New Gmail lab feature: Mark unread from here
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
If you are subscribed to mailing lists with long conversations, then this new lab feature comes in handy:
Clicking this option on a message tells Gmail that you want that message to be the first one you see when you reopen the thread later, with all messages after it open for easy reading. So, when you leave partway through reading a long thread, figuring out where to start reading again is easy.
Mailplane 2.1.2 released
Friday, December 11, 2009
Fixes/Changes:
- NEW: The Russian translation is back! Thanks to Igor Terekhov!
- UPDATED: French translation by Michel Tribet.
- UPDATED: Romanian translation by Ovi Pascui
- NEW: mailplane:// URLs now automatically switch accounts if needed.
- NEW: http://mail.google.com URLs can now be opened in Mailplane (for example with choosy). They work the same as mailplane URLs.
- CHANGED: File > New and File > New Separate do not require keyboard shortcuts anymore.
- CHANGED: Fallback on "Basic attachment feature" when Flash or Google Gears isn't working.
- CHANGED: Mail > Insert > Email Address...: You can now double click the group to insert all members of an address group.
- CHANGED: Error dialog when downloads are in progress
- FIX: Unchecked Preferences > Advanced > Enable Google Gears with installed Google Gears could cause loading delays or hangs.
- FIX: Command-L didn't work anymore (Gmail changes)
- FIX: Possible crash when attaching files from a network drive
- FIX: Rare crash on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger)
- FIX: Picasa > Email didn't work.
- FIX: AppleScript "directlySend" property on OutgoingMessage didn't work with attachments.
- FIX: Mail > Goto menu items wrote a 'g' character into an open chat panel.
- FIX: Download windows wasn't shown when the download cancellation message was shown.
- FIX: Gmail signatures not replaced with HTML signature when "Default text styling" lab feature was enabled.
- FIX: class conflict warnings when ClickToFlash is installed.
- FIX: URL drag and drop (from Safari address bar, for instance) didn't work under Snow Leopard
- FIX: Crash when using Mail > Insert > File...Command-Option-F.
- FIX: Sets focus to the body text to prevent keyboard shortcut problems.
- FIX: BCC field was focused with Auto-BCC field.
- FIX: Auto-BCC didn't work with name in email address: Ruben Bakker <ruben@mailplaneapp.com>
- FIX: Possible crash when Mailplane was minimized
- FIX: Help > Mailplane Help > Know Issues didn't show anything
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Offline Gmail graduates from Labs
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
"Offline Gmail" is no longer a lab feature - it's now part of the official Gmail offering:
Almost a year ago, we launched Offline Gmail in Gmail Labs. By installing Offline Gmail, you're able to use the normal Gmail interface to read and write mail, search, and organize, even when there's no internet connection. And Flaky Connection mode speeds up Gmail when your connection is slow or unreliable.
Tip: To get started with "Offline Gmail" and Mailplane, please check out the how to article.
New Gmail Lab Feature: Default text styling
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
A new lab feature lets us define the default font and format for the "rich text" emails we write:
If you like to use a specific text style for your messages, you've had to change the font every time you're about to start typing out an email. Now, you can turn on default text styling from the Labs tab, then go to Settings and set your preferences just once.
Offline Gmail: Bye bye Google Gears? Hello HTML5?
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
I found different interesting news stories this morning. It looks like Google will slowly switching over to HTML5 for browser extensions like Offline support:
The Google spokesman wrote to clarify in a follow-up e-mail, "We're continuing to support Gears so that nothing breaks for sites that use it. But we expect developers to use HTML5 for these features moving forward as it's a standards-based approach that will be available across all browsers."
If Offline Gmail is ported to HTML5 then this is terrific news for Snow Leopard users. WebKit already has a pretty complete HTML5 implementation. In fact: Offline Gmail on the iPhone is already powered by it.
