Mailplane 2.0.11 released
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Release notes:
Turkish Translation
Kudos to Mehmet Fatih Yigit: He contributed Turkish!
Gmail Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more
Gmail's labels have much improved, here's what I found on the official Gmail blog:
A few months ago Gmail got some new buttons and keyboard shortcuts to make labeling easier, especially for those of you accustomed to that familiar folder feel. Now we're making some more changes to Gmail's labeling toolkit.
1) New location for labels
You'll notice your labels in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of Gmail). Instead of having their own section, your labels are now above your chat list, grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels.
2) Label hiding and showing
You now have control over which of your labels show. We've done our best to get you started by automatically showing the labels you use most and hiding the rest. Label hiding is my favorite new feature, since it saves me from having to look through labels I rarely use. If I ever need to reach any of my old labels, I just click the "more" link.
You can show, hide, or delete a label by clicking the down-arrow to the left of that label.
If you want to make a lot of changes at once, go to the Labels tab under Settings where you can edit labels in bulk.
For those of you who created label names like _stuff or ++todo++ to force your most-used labels to the top of the list (come on, you know who you are, I did it too...), you don't have to come up with clever tricks like that anymore 
3) Drag and drop
You can now drag messages into labels, just like you can with folders. This does the exact same thing as "Move to" -- it labels and archives in one step.
You can drag labels onto messages too. It's the same thing as using the "Label" button. To label or move many messages at once, first select the messages and then drag and drop the label.
It's also possible to drag labels into the "more" menu to hide them and vice versa. If you only want to move a couple labels around, I've found it quicker than going to Settings.
All of these changes also mean the end of Right-side Labels, an experimental Gmail Labs feature. This is the first Labs feature we're retiring. (The idea behind Labs was always that things could break or disappear at any time or they might work so well that they become regular features. More on that soon...) Now that labels aren't in their own little box and take up much less space, moving them around the screen didn't seem as important. We realize quite a few of you used and liked Right-side Labels, so if you feel strapped for left nav screen real estate without it, try turning on Right-side Chat in Labs instead.
We hope these new changes make labeling even easier and help you stay organized. We'll be rolling out these labeling features for everyone throughout the day, so if you don't see them right away please check later today.
Become a Gmail Ninja
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Improve your Gmail skills and become real productive. Google has published a very useful tips and tricks page. It's also available as a nice printable guide.
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MyMac Magazine: Mailplane gets 4.5 out of 5
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Scott Willsey (MyMac.com) wrote a great review about Mailplane:
Mailplane has changed my entire mindset about email. I no longer deal with sync issues between computers. I no longer worry about managing local copies of everything. If you can wrap your brain around having your email in the cloud, or even if you just have a few Gmail accounts you want to manage in addition to some other email accounts that you do deal with through a regular email client, Mailplane makes things smooth and easy for you, just like using a regular email client. I recommend it to any heavy Gmail user on the Mac.
New Gmail Lab Feature: Automatic message translation
Friday, June 05, 2009
If you are communicating with people around the world, this new Gmail lab feature is for you:
Simply enable "Message Translation" from the Labs tab under Settings, and when you receive an email in a language other than your own, Gmail will help you translate it into a language you can understand. In one click.
Macworld reviews Mailplane and gives it four mice
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Dan Frakes has published an excellent Mailplane review:
One of my favorite features is that you can set up multiple Gmail accounts in Mailplane; select one in the Accounts drawer and click on Switch To, and Mailplane logs you out of the current account and into the new one. (You can’t log in to two accounts at the same time, however.) I also like Mailplane’s keyboard navigation: press Shift+G and a Navigate box pops up; type enough of the name of a Gmail view or label to uniquely identify it, and then press return to jump to that view. You can assign labels to messages and conversations using a similar procedure.
Mailplane receives a great "four mice" rating!
Mailplane 2.0.10 released
Release notes:
- UPDATED: Spanish and Chinese (Tranditional & Simplified).
- CHANGE: Renamed executable file back to "Mailplane" as the Video Chat plugin now recognizes Mailplane.
- FIX: Possible crash when unhiding the main window.
- FIX: Command-Shift-D didn't archive if you had the "Send and Archive" lab feature enabled.
- FIX: Disabled Gmail keyboard shortcuts warning didn't work
- FIX: Google Apps accounts were signed out when using Gmail lab features Doc/Calendar Gadgets.
- FIX: Send/Save/Discard commands didn't work correctly with enabled "Send & Archive Gmail lab feature
New Gmail Lab Feature: Google Search right in Gmail
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
I used to have a problem. People would ask me questions, over chat or email, and I'd have to leave Gmail to search Google for an answer. Then I'd have to select the answer, copy it, go back to Gmail and paste the answer into the chat window or my reply. Sometimes I'd get distracted and forget to go back to Gmail, and I'd have to go through it all again when I remembered what I'd been doing.
Once you're sure it's a result you need, moving your mouse over the result back in Gmail reveals a pull-down menu that lets you do stuff with the search result. What's in the menu depends on what you're doing in Gmail:
- If you're reading a message, you can start a reply to the message with the search result as the first thing in your reply.
- If you're writing a message, you can paste the result, or just the URL into your message.
- If you're chatting with someone, you can send the result via chat.
- You can also always compose a new message to send the search result.
Create your Google Profile
Just found this on the official Gmail blog:
If you want people to be able to contact you, but don't want to reveal your email address to the world, you can hide your username and use a 24 digit number instead. Turn on the 'Send a message' feature, and anyone with a Google Account can send you a message through your profile, without having your email address revealed to them.
New Gmail Lab Feature: PowerPoint and TIFF file viewing
Friday, April 24, 2009
Google has improved Gmail's attachement "viewer" again. Now you get better support for TIFF (Fax) and PowerPoint:
This viewer provides a richer set of features than the old "View as slideshow" version: you can zoom in and out, select text to copy and paste, and "print" the presentation to a PDF document. And, unlike the old version, we no longer require you to have a Flash plugin installed on your browser.
New Gmail Lab Feature: Suggest more recipients
Here's another Gmail lab feature you may find useful:
Gmail will suggest people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. So if you always email your mom, dad, and sister together, and you start composing a message to your mom and dad, Gmail will suggest adding your sister. Enter at least two recipients and any suggestions will show up like this:
Click on a suggested name, and they'll get added to your email.Link to official Gmail blog post.
“Macstories” reviews Mailplane
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Ticci at Macstories has just written a nice Mailplane review:
The idea behind Mailplane is to fill the gap between Gmail and desktop, a lack that Google still (strangely) did not remedied. Mailplane gives you the power to access to all Gmail accounts that you have, quickly switch between them, attach files from your Mac via a simple drag & drop and more, with all the future that Google provides to his service. Mailplane is a sort of mini-browser, exclusively designed to access Gmail with all the obvious convenience of a desktop application.
New Gmail Lab Feature: Inserting images
Friday, April 10, 2009
Again, a new Gmail lab feature! Allows you to insert images into a message body. You can upload and insert image files in your computer, or insert images by URLs. Great stuff!
To get it working:
- Enable the Inserting Images lab feature
- Update Mailplane to at least 2.0.9 or the latest 2.1 beta version
- Make sure you use "Rich text" in your message
- Click the "Insert Image" button...
Mailplane 2.0.9 released
Here's a quick release before the Easter Break:
Release notes:
- NEW: Support for the new "Inserting images" Gmail lab feature.
- FIX: Pictures didn't get optimized (since 2.0.8)
