Reviews
Descary: “Mailplane turns Gmail into a real Mac application”
Thursday, December 04, 2008
French Blogger Benoit Descary just blogged about Mailplane: Transformez GMail en véritable application avec Mailplane, which means "Mailplane turns Gmail into a real Mac application". In his article Benoit describes how Mailplane makes his life Gmail easier and he highly recommends it to other Gmail users.
Cali Lewis loves Mailplane
Friday, October 10, 2008
Cali Lewis is one of the early Mailplane users; she discovered Mailplane in the 1.0 beta days. Back then she even presented Mailplane in one of her famous video podcasts. She is still using Mailplane and just blogged about it:
I tweeted today about an application I use and love, Mailplane. It’s an application that allows you manage multiple Gmail accounts very effectively. You can see when new emails come into a different account without logging in and out, and you switch between accounts with a double click of your mouse. It uses the Gmail interface, so all your labels and filters stay in tact.
And on Twitter:
Yeah! I'm finally convincing Neal to use Mailplane! It's a lifesaver for me.
Check out the full blog post.
Or watch the original geekbrief video podcast.
Cali Lewis is the producer and host of geekbrief.tv the site for Shiny and Happy Tech News. It’s a 3-5 minute video podcast, released 4 days a week. If love news about technology, consumer electronics, and Web 2.0 projects: checkout geekbrief.tv.
Keep up the good work, Cali!
Mailplane on The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Dave Hamilton is a Gmail+Mailplane user. He talks about how he uses Mailplane on the Mac Observer's "Mac Geek Gab" Podcast. Listen to the #166 episode.
Mailplane Review on MacTV Germany
Monday, September 01, 2008
Mac TV is one of the top Mac sites with over half a million subscribers and is often the number one podcast/videocast site on iTunes Germany.
Mailplane got a great and positive review on their live video podcast: Click here to get to the sign up form. (Note: The video is in German and you need to subscribe to see the movie).
Mailplane/Gmail as an MobileMe alternative
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Walla.co.il is one of the big news sites in Israel. Ziv Kitaro wrote about MobileMe alternatives in column and Mailplane/Gmail is one of them. If you can read Hebrew, click this link
Mailplane Bright Hub Review
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Mailplane just got reviewed on Bright Hub! It's a great and very thorough review and describes what Mailplane is and what it isn't. 
Here is what Bill writes about Security and Privacy:
"There are settings in each Gmail account's preference panel to control access to each individual Gmail account, by saving the Gmail account password to the Mac keychain and allowing automatic login as needed. [See Image 3] Of course, this is best used on a Mac that has password-protected user accounts.
Mailplane also provides a setting in each Gmail account that enables https support. While this can affect the application's overall performance, turning on https is a good idea for anyone who's using Mailplane on a local area network."
Check out the full article, it is a great read!
Mailplane in French SVM Mac: Indispensable!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Best of all, Mailplane gets five mice - the max! According to the editors, Mailplane is "Indispensable" for Gmail Mac users. Plus: The magazine comes with a CD which contains Mailplane.
Without Michel Tribet's excellent French application translation, Mailplane wouldn't have appeared in SVN Mac... thanks Michel!
Australian Macworld about cloud computing
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Dan Warne has written a very nice article about "cloud computing"...
I’ve finally decided to rid my e-mail and calendar of this earthly life — I decided after a recent MacBook Pro upgrade that it was time for them to go and live in the cloud.
...he mentions Mailplane as one of the apps that let him do the transition...
MailPlane is a stupendously fantastic program — it recreates an e-mail client around Gmail.
...and he explains the difference between Mailplane and other mail applications:
“Sure”, you might say, “I can already get my Gmail in Apple Mail through POP or IMAP.” The difference is MailPlane is a true web app, in that all the data resides on Google’s servers and MailPlane provides (as the author says) “the last mile” between the web app and your desktop. MailPlane adds back the features you’ve come to rely on your desktop mail client for, like Growl alerts when you get a new e-mail, the ability to drag a file to its icon and have a new e-mail open up with the file attached. Or the ability to select a batch of photos in iPhoto and click “e-mail”.
It's a great read, check out the full article.
Mailplane reviewed on MacReviewCast.com
Week after week, the people at MacReviewCast publish many priceless reviews to the Mac community. It's a great honor to hear that Mailplane 1.61 got a fine review by Lola Wong. Check out the MacReviewCast on iTunes or visit them here. Mailplane is in episode #143 (March, 29.)
Mailplane on 37signals and Citizen Garden
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Just found a nice post about the Mailplane's auto-bcc feature on the 37signals product blog.
If you’re interested in site specific browsers, listen to this podcast. Mailplane has been mentioned as one of the prime examples on how a site specific browser should work.
I very much share their vision and passion. Web applications such as Gmail are getting more important by the day. And site specific browsers are here to implement the "last mile," to free the web application from the browser tab and to combine the best of web and desktop world.
It's a great listen, much recommended.
Review in “Vous et Votre Mac”
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
"Vous et Votre Mac" (VVMac) is one of the big French Mac print magazines. They reviewed Mailplane 1.71.8 (cutting edge) and the article is in the very latest issue (#33). I am very excited about this and the 4 out 5 star rating is great, too!
In case you aren't able to find the magazine at your newsstand:
Bernard Le Du, VVMac editor-in-chief, was so friendly to pass me the review as PDF. 
Click image to open the review.
