Mailplane

Price Announcement

Saturday, September 29, 2007

The beta started in March. This was such an intense and exciting half year. Thank you for all ideas, bug reports, and support!

I feel that the time has come to prepare Mailplane for public availability and to announce the price for it:

• A Mailplane single user license is $24.95 and includes free 1.x updates.
• There is a family option available ($8), which allows you to use Mailplane in your private household on up to five Macs.
• The evaluation period will last 30 days.
  

For a short time, Mailplane will remain in beta stage. There is still no time limit: the evaluation period will begin when the beta ends.

Special offer for beta users: Buy a single user license today and get the family option for free. (Offer expires when Mailplane goes public).

To go to the store, open "Mailplane->Registration..." and press the "buy now..." button.

If you're not a beta user and like to try Mailplane you are welcome to register for the beta here.

Mailplane is ready for Leopard

Mailplane 1.52 is ready for the upcoming Mac OS X release. The same Mailplane version now runs on both 10.4 and 10.5 releases of the operating system. I am still working on the iPhoto plugin, the screenshot function, and some minor (e.g. toolbar repaint) stuff. But, other than that all features work just fine.

Hide Mailplane at startup

Do you like to launch Mailplane whenever you start your Mac or log into your account? Add Mailplane to your system preference account login items. New in 1.52: If you check the Hide option, Mailplane won't open any window when it starts.

Drag and drop and photo optimization

When you drag and drop photos, Mailplane optimizes them to make them smaller and you can control the optimization in the Photos preference page.

But, sometimes you need to send a picture without any optimization: you want to leave size, file type, and picture quality untouched. The latest release now allows you to just press the command key while dropping the file. The mouse cursor will change to "Link" instead of "Copy" to indicate that no optimization will be performed.

Here is how it looks like:
I dragged a photo from Finder to Mailplane.

No key pressed: Optimize the picture according to your preferences


Command-Key pressed: disable all optimizations, leave the picture untouched.

Catalan and Finnish translations

Mailplane features two new languages:

Finnish by Mikko Aarnio


Catalan by Albert Simó.

Kudos to Mikko and Albert for their important work!
Use the "Help->Support and Feedback" window to send translation related feedback.

Dutch, Icelandic, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

There are six new languages to choose from:

• Dutch by Cristiano Betta
• Icelandic by Páll Svansson
• Japanese by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)
• Portuguese by Tiago Amorim
• Spanish by Fernando Orozco
• Swedish by Kristoffer Forsgren (ballisticpixels.com)

These translators did a great job - send them your feedback by using the Help->Feedback and Support menu item. There is a special "Compose Mail..." button to notify the translator of the current language. Mailplane is now usable in eleven languages. German, French, Polish, Romanian, and of course English are all up-to-date, too.

This is the Tweak UI preference page in Japanese. Cute isn't it?


Like to switch to one of the above languages? See Mailplane Help for instructions.

iMedia Browser

No need to open iPhoto, iTunes, or iMovie to send attachments: There is a brand-new iMedia browser right inside Mailplane. Open it and then drag and drop photos, movies, or music to your message. Use Window->iMedia Browser to get started.

Use your Mac address book

Insert email addresses directly from your Mac address book into your TO, CC, BCC, or message field. It works much like the text snippets panel: Press Cmd-Option-A to open the panel, search for one or more addresses. Press Enter to close the panel and insert the addresses at the focused field. Works with address groups, too. You'll find the panel in the Mail->Insert sub menu.

Rich Text format menu

There is a new Format menu to make text bold (Cmd-B), italic (Cmd-I), or underlined (Cmd-U). Quickly access colors (Cmd-Option-C), too. And finally center (Cmd-|), left align (Cmd-{), or right align (Cmd-}) paragraphs.