Tag: MAIL.APP

When it comes to organizing your email inbox, Apple's Mail.app isn't the most sophisticated offering out there. FlagIt! is a mail add-on that lets you quickly mark your messages as urgent, pending or to-do. It adds its own set of flag icons to the seldom-used "flag" column in Mail, and sets the titles of your messages to the corresponding colors. Once you've installed FlagIt!, you can start ...

I've been a user of Gmail since late 2005 and have loved just about every minute of it. The revolutionary webmail interface, the vast popularity among power users and plethora of scripts, add-ons and doodads - but the one thing that always bothered me was the loss of integration with the rest of my computing. Sure, there are some great tricks and bookmarklets we found for our Top 10 Gmail tips and ...

One of the things that is most apparent when you switch to a Mac is the quality of the built-in applications that come with the Mac operating system. It's pure joy to not have to go searching for a calendaring program, since iCal is so full-featured. One that is perplexing, however, is Apple Mail, or Mail.app as the Mac-heads tend to call it. Apple Mail is beautiful in its simplicity and has some ...

This one is for the Mac users in the audience. The Apple Mail Plugins and Tools page offers quick links to almost every known plugin for Mail.app. When I stumbled on it the other day, I was amazed at the range of functionality people have added to Mail, especially given the undocumented plugin API. Some of my personal faves, like the all-important GPGMail are featured, as well as some nifty ...

Does your Mac have a nice wide screen? Can't figure out why Mail.app puts the preview pane underneath the message list? Now it's easy to make it display everything in three nice, tall columns with this Mail.app plugin. The installation couldn't be simpler, so go ahead and get started. [Via TUAW] ...

Over at O'Reilly's Mac Dev Center Blog Robert Daeley has a fun how-to on how to make iTunes play a particular song (or portion of a song) whenever an e-mail is received from a particular person, a la obnoxious cell phone ringtones. So if you want every e-mail from your grandma to play her favorite Eazy-E song, you can make it do just that. Of course it's done through the magic of AppleScript, so ...