Nick Starr has noticed that Gmail now offers you the choice to select all your conversations and delete them all in one hit.

Previously, you had to hack through the screens selecting fifty at a time and deleting each group. Now it is much faster:

Select All in the Gmail interface and the option to select all the conversations with the same label or in the same category appears to the right.

I don’t know how long this option has been around. It was news to me.

Slash and burn.email, Gmail, Google, select all, delete all, new features, not apple mail

A post on the The Rumbling Edge, Mozilla’s site for cutting-edge developments, lists the features and improvements that will appear in Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1.0, which has not yet been released.

Top of the list are custom Folder Pane Views for things like favorites, unread and recently used email. You will also be able to tag messages, and open multiple messages in individual tabs.

The new version will offer built-in notification of new email, which may look something like this:

You will be able to get pop-up summaries of the contents in folders.

Security will be enhanced with an improved Bayesian algorithm and better protection from Phishing.

Lastly, it will offer support for “find as you type” filtering.

The post lists all the many more fixes and improvements in detail, including twelve Mac-specific issues.

I see nothing to tempt me away from Mail.app, but it is interesting to see how Thunderbird is developing.email, thunderbird 2.0, mozilla, new features, notification, folders,

Boris Anthony has posted some mocked-up screenshots of features he would like to see in Mail.app and iCal that bring the two apps closer together.

He suggests some “smart lists” based on Mail’s Previous Recipients list, a Contextual Menu feature in iCal that would provide lists of all the files and emails created on a particular day and a calendar widget to sit in the bottom of Mail.app’s Mailbox Drawer.

The next version of MailTags will already bring greater integration between Mail.app and iCal. Boris’ ideas would bring them even closer together.

Check them out. What do you think?ical, mail.app, apple mail, mashup, new features, Previous Recipients, integrating