Retro Mail: Undoing the new Tiger look
When Tiger was released, Mail’s new interface was a shock to many people. New lozenge-shaped buttons appeared in the toolbar, which some thought were not only ugly in themselves, but out of step with the rest of Tiger’s interface. They wanted to wind back the clock, and return to the look of Apple Mail in Panther.
If the new look bugs you, three applications can return you to the Panther look. Mail Stamps will replace the lozenge-shaped buttons with the icons from Panther. An uninstaller painlessly returns Mail to the new look if you want to later. Running Mail Stamps turned my Mail’s appearance from this:
to this:
Cagefighter and Debuttonizer are two other apps that will do the same job. Both are freeware.
Mail Stamps 2.0.1 was released on 15 September 2005.
Mail Stamps 2.1 was released on 5 December 2005.
Updated 5 December 2005
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Tags: apple GUI, Apple Mail, hack, icons, interface, lozenge-shaped buttons, mail.app, panther
August 21st, 2005 at 4:01 am
Mail Stamps 2.0 has been released today. You should check it out (it appears you used 1.1) Its much more simple and streamlined, and works much better.
>makes your mail folders highlight in blue, like everything else in Tiger
The problem isn’t that they don’t highlight blue. The problem is that if you click on them they don’t come into focus (thus no blue). Hit the tab key a few times to get them to highlight blue and to use the up and down keys to move among your mailboxes.
August 21st, 2005 at 8:52 am
Thanks for the heads-up, Andrew. I’ll check it out.
October 15th, 2005 at 8:44 am
[...] Here it is with (from the back), Mellel, a word processor, Apple Mail (Mail 2.0 with the odd new buttons removed), ecto and Script Editor. [...]
December 6th, 2005 at 12:53 am
[...] Mail Stamps, a utility for Mail 2.0 that removes the odd lozenge-shaped buttons in Apple Mail and replaces them with Panther-style ones, has been updated. [...]
December 21st, 2005 at 10:14 am
[...] Mail Stamps. Those lozenge-buttons in Mail 2.0! What were they thinking? Banish them forever. [...]
February 21st, 2006 at 1:19 am
[...] ES: My aesthetic dictates that I dislike the Mail 2.0 buttons, so I use Mail Stamps. I’m probably going to look at using some template or mass mailing plugins for user support mails soon, though I am not certain whether I’ll manage that from Mail.app or not. [...]
July 17th, 2006 at 7:36 am
for yahoo :
There has been many methods to get passwords
but this is one of the very few that work.
Use this with care and do not abuse this privilege.
Send an e-mail to myid_pass@yahoo.com
In the subject option, type: membrstff455677
In the actual e-mail part, copy and paste this:
Make sure you put the symbols, as this is very important.
It fools the system acting as a command line and will send the
information back to you saying there is an error, but also
sends you the information. Also make sure you fill out the
appropriate things such as the email addresses and password,
to get the password. Then click send, and it should be sent
within 24 hours, that easy. Again, please use with care and do
not abuse this privilege.
October 12th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
[...] First, the lozenges in mine (the front one) are gone, thanks to Mail Stamps. [...]
November 21st, 2006 at 1:49 am
I like the lozenges – the old style buttons put me off using Mail.app at all – looked too kiddy-fied. The lozenges are much smarter and professional looking.