“Real Uses” blog: Interview about Mailplane

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Michael A. Crane interviewed me about Mailplane: How the project got started, what the product is all about, and developer life in general. Check out the interview on his blog.

New Mailplane how-to articles

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Mailplane offers more than one might realize. The new "how-to" documentation can help you get more out of Mailplane. Each how-to article comes with screenshots and step by step instructions.

You find the articles in support section of the mailplaneapp.com website or by opening the online help: (Use the Help > Mailplane Help menu item to access it).

As a start over a dozen articles have been published. Over the next few days, more will follow. I plan to cover all new 2.1 features and focus on some getting started topics. If you miss a particular article, please suggest it.

Enhanced License: Use Mailplane on all your Macs

Until recently, a Mailplane single user license was limited to two Macs. Because many users needed Mailplane on more Macs, I've decided to lift this limitation:

• Single-user license: Install on all Macs you personally use. Use it at home, school, work: just anywhere. Limitation: Make sure you're the only user. Please do not share your license with anyone else.
• Family license: Allow up to five (5) family members living in the same household to use Mailplane on their Macs. As with the single user license, there is no machine limitation for any of the five users.
• Site license: For a number of users working at the same organization. Again, each user may use it anywhere.

This improved license applies to all registered users! You don't need to re-install or re-download anything.

Tip: If you need to upgrade your license (say from "single user" to "family"), check out the new upgrade page.

I’ll give a talk at the International “QL & Mac are 25” event

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Early 1984 two milestones were unfolded on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Europe was first with the launch of the 32bit multitasking/multi-windowing Sinclair QL. 12 days later America saw the launch of the 32bit GUI Apple Macintosh. Because of this anniversary, the Sinclair QL community has organized the International "QL & Mac are 25" event.

I'll giving a talk about the Mac OS X, it's recent history, and about Cocoa development on the Mac and the iPhone. The title of the talk: "The Mac died nine years ago.". Don't worry, it was a good thing after all. Back in 2000 Mac OS 9 was outdated (remember the Mac bomb and crashes?) and Macs were slower than comparable PCs or Unix workstations. But everything changed when NeXTstep morphed to Mac OS X and later Macs got Intel processors. Would an iPhone have been possible without NeXTstep? Would we have a 64bit Mac OS?

If you happen to be near Lucerne, you're very welcome to attend this free event:

When? Sat/Sun Oct 31st/Nov 1st 2009. The talk will start Saturday at 13:00
Where? Verkehrshaus (Swiss Transport Museum) Lucerne, Switzerland
Check out the web page for the event for more information.

New mailplaneapp.com Website

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Search the whole website for new features, screencasts, faq, known issues

Watch screencasts, they are now grouped by category and can be found in one place. I plan to add more short screencasts before the release of 2.0.

Enjoy the brand new blog. Much improved categories, commenting, and archives.

Check for known issues. The same information is displayed in the "Mailplane->Help->Support Feedback" window.

Subscribe the FAQ, blog, known issues, and screencasts.

I hope you enjoy the new design and improvements as much as I do. If anything isn't working as it should, either leave a comment or use the new contact form to get in touch.

Wondering about the new setup?

• The website is driven by Expression Engine, a very powerful and nice blogging and content management system.
• The old blog posts and faq were stored in Rapidweaver, comments were hosted by haloscan. All blog posts, FAQ entries, features, and comments were moved by parsing the RSS/ATOM feed and generating an import file. I wrote two short ruby scripts for the task.
• To add pictures to the site, I now use the great ImageWell application
• To edit any content, Textmate with the blogging bundle is used.