This morning on TUAW I read about Griffin’s Proxi, which has been released as a public beta.

Griffin is using it as a utility for working with its various hardware products like the PowerMate and Radio Shark.

But the reach of the app is much wider. Proxi is in fact a kind of FastScripts / HotKeys / Growl / Quicksilver mash-up. It performs some of the functions of all those utilities, without totally replacing any of them.

Proxi comes with pre-built scripts and “blueprints” to interact with a number of apps—iChat, Mail.app, iTunes and Skype—as well as general AppleScript and application launcher abilities.

Because this is Hawk Wings, we are interested mainly in Mail.app. After the jump you will find some screenshots and two quick suggestions on how it works with Mail in useful ways.

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MailPulse is a widget for Konfabulator that checks Mail.app for unread email every specified number of seconds.

When you have unread mail, your Griffin PowerMate will pulse depending on how many unread emails are in your inbox(s) until all new mail has been read. Then the LED will return to its default glow.

The developer’s notes helpfully add, “NOTE: If you don’t have a Griffin PowerMate, you won’t notice anything happening.” If you don’t have Konfabulator installed, you probably won’t notice anything either.

You can download it from the Konfabulator Widget Gallery.

Tags: Apple Mail, Griffin, Konfabulator, mail.app, mailpulse, notification, plugin, PowerMate, widget

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