Mailplane

Mailplane 2.0 Release Candidate 3

Friday, November 28, 2008

New: Navigate Quick Links

The "Quick Links" Google Lab features, allows you to link to conversations, searches or any other Gmail page. Now the "Navigation" keyboard pop up will show all your "Quick Links" for easy navigation. Press ⌘⌥G or use the "Mail->Goto->Navigate..." menu item to open the navigation dialog. Check out this screencast to learn more about the navigation panel.

Improved: Keychain Access

As Mailplane is now "code signed", future releases won't ask for Keychain permissions anymore. This version, however, will still ask for the Keychain permission changes.

Bug fixes:

• Some users experienced problems attaching files
• Some Google Apps users experienced 403 (permission denied) when clicking the "Contacts" link
• Removed Popup Blocker warnings
• When started in "Hidden" mode: opening conversations would not work
• New windows created by the Google Calendar Gadget didn't work correctly (parameter errors)

Mailplane 2.0 Release Candidate 2

Saturday, November 22, 2008

New: Gmail Video Chat

This release supports the brand new Gmail Video Chat feature. To get it working: download and install the Gmail Video Chat plugin. Gmail Video Chat is only available for Intel Macs.

To support "Gmail Video Chat", Mailplane now works with your system's WebKit only. Make sure you have Safari 3.2 installed. Mac OS X Tiger users: Please upgrade to 10.4.11.

Improved: "Attach File" button

When you directly attach a file using the "Attach File" Gmail button, the attachment is optimized as when you drag and drop the file.

Improved: Growl notifications

Growl title shows "Sender: Subject" and if available a picture fetched from the local address book.

Changed: Sign out

Because many users complained about the new sign out feature: Mailplane now either terminates (only one account) or opens the account drawer (more than account). This is how it worked before "release candidate 1".

Tip: ⌘-click does the Gmail sign out.

Info: Gmail Themes

Gmail now supports different themes, check out your Google settings. More info

Bug fixes:

• Login didn't work for some Google Apps users with single sign on
• Spam counter didn't hide for Google Apps users with disabled chat
• When starting in "hidden" mode, Mailplane didn't check for new messages as it didn't authenticate the active account
• Separate compose window now shows correct title (to/subject).
• Long Unicode download file names were truncated

Official Gmail Blog: Spice up your inbox with colors and themes

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Great news straight from the official Gmail blog! Gmail now supports many different themes. Of course these theme work in Mailplane, too!

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. We've also done a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

To customize your inbox, go to the Themes tab under Settings. We'll be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so if you don't see them yet, check back soon.

Use Gmail Video Chat in Mailplane

Friday, November 14, 2008

Are you excited about the new Gmail Video Chat feature?

Mailplane now supports it, but it hasn't been released yet. If you like to try and test it, then follow these steps to get started:

1. Download and install the Gmail Video Chat plugin.
2. Grab the latest "Preview" build from the Google Group
3. Start Mailplane and enjoy!

If you encounter any unusual problems, please let me know by using the Help->Feedback and Support... menu item inside Mailplane.

Google Calendar and Docs Gadgets

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Many Mailplane users asked for Google Calendar integration. Now Google released new Google Lab features to embed calender and documents in the Gmail sidebar. The latest Mailplane 2.0 release supports these two features.

From the Gmail Blog:

To get you started, we've worked with the engineers from the Calendar and Docs teams on two highly requested features: a simple way to see your Google Calendar agenda and get an alert when you have a meeting, and a gadget that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs and lets you search across all of your documents right from within Gmail.

Tip: To customize your sidebar, try the Navbar drag and drop lab feature.

Check the Gmail Labs group for support and feedback.

Mailplane 2.0 Release Candidate 1

Improved: Support Google lab features

See separate blog posts for "Remember the milk", Google Docs * Google Calendar features.

New: Permanent cookie storage

To better support the new Google Labs feature, web cookies are now stored on disk. They are located in the "~/Library/Application Support/Mailplane" folder.

This shortens startup and "account switch" time considerably.

Changed: Sign out

Sign out now terminates the Google session instead of opening the account drawer.

Experimental: Open external links in Mailplane

⌘-click links or buttons to open the web pages inside Mailplane instead of your preferred browser.

Important: This feature is experimental and may be changed or removed in future versions.

Tips + Tricks:

• ⌥-Click opens a link in "background"
• ⇧-click opens a link in Firefox instead of your preferred browser (Safari, OmniWeb etc.)

Bug fix:

Unread message counter didn't work correctly when the Gmail settings page was active

Support for “Remember the Milk”

Do you want to access your "Remember the Milk" tasks from Mailplane?

The latest Mailplane 2.0 version supports the new "Remember the Milk" Gmail Gadget. It lets you work your task from the Gmail sidebar.

Check out the installation instructions and screenshots on the "Remember the Milk" web site.

Mailplane 2.0 Beta 11 Released

Sunday, November 02, 2008

New: Brazilian Portuguese Translation

Thanks to Leonardo Otsuka, Mailplane 2.0 beta now contains the Brazilian Portuguese translation.

New: Google Labs Feature support

• Support for Calendar
• Support for Google Doc

Note: Only works with "normal" Gmail accounts (@gmail.com, @googlemail.com). Support for Google Apps will be released with next update.

Bug Fixes

• Downloads didn't start on Mac OS Tiger (10.4.x)
• Unicode downloads (Japanese, Hebrew, etc.) didn't get the right file names
• URLs dropped to the message field didn't work