JABMenu 1.2: International maps, group emails, more
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Jonathan Nathan has updated his menubar access utility for Address Book, JABMenu.
The newest version (1.2) adds more options for international map services, the ability to compose an email to a group of contacts found through its look-up hotkey, the ability to add contact info into the foremost application (i.e. quickly insert contact details into a mail.app message—very handy!) and more.
Since I don’t have many friends in Desmoines, Iowa or Martha’s Vinyard, the increased number of international mapping options is very welcome.
People can now benefit from a much wider range of country-specific Google Maps services and mapping providers.
It works well too.
Clicking on the postal address of everyone’s favourite company (or at least its Australian outpost) pops up the right result (plus a slightly scary suggestion):
The new group email option is also useful, allowing you to select multiple contacts from a look-up search:
You can read the full changelog on Jonathan’s web site 
, where you can also download the updated version. It’s shareware (USD 10).
Google Reader Notifier’s developer Troels Bay has been busy. Since I last posted about his menubar utility for Google’s newfeed reader 
The third-party Menubar utility for Google’s news reader, 
Troels Bay has just released a menubar notification utility for Google’s RSS Reader which matches the other Google app menubar notification apps for Gmail and Google Calendar.
The drop-down menu offers the ability to jump into the Reader, to preview the subject lines of articles in your Google Reader feed, or to check for updates manually.
Some people like the new Quicksilver Menubar icon, others don’t like it at all. They find it too similar to the Spotlight icon or just not as groovy as the old one, which is 
Then Command-Click (or right-click) on Quicksilver in your Applications folder and select “Show Package Contents” from the Contextual menu.
Google has expanded and renamed its 
