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MailBadger 0.3: Dock Icon Badge Bonanza

MailbadgerMailBadger is a nice little plug-in that offers the ability to create multiple counters on Mail.app’s Dock icon. Hawk Wings has covered it before.

It adds a pane to Mail’s Preferences with options to choose the colour, shape (standard “starburst”, heart, star or circle) and font of additional counters displaying the emails in particular accounts or folders:

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Earlier this month, the developer updated it. The new version (0.3) is Leopard only (earlier versions still work in Tiger) and offers a number of enhancements. First, it provides a proper uninstaller, which will please people who are nervous about adding plugins and whatnot to Mail and not being able to get rid of them again.

Secondly, it now respects customised Mail.app icons. Earlier version reverted to the default icon when extra counters were added. Now it draws them on top on whatever icon you have in Mail’s application bundle — good news for tweakers like me.

Thirdly, it now offers options to count the unread, read or all messages in a particular account.

Unlike Dockstar and Docktopus, MailBadger is freeware. The developer’s site is down for renovation, but this link from MacUpdate worked for me.mail.app, apple mail, plugins, dock icon, badges, productivity

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4 Responses to “MailBadger 0.3: Dock Icon Badge Bonanza”

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  4. RealUnimportant says:
    June 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Just a quick comment about icon customisation and MailBadger. I’ve seen a few people say that their custom icons are ignored by MailBadger; I got around this by changing Mail.app’s icon the old-fashioned way, i.e. within the package rather than pasted over the icon in the Get Info pane.

    Hope that this info helps someone.

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