How do I get mail.app in OS X, to not display attached images automatically, like what it defaultly does for the junk mail, where you have to click “Load Images”, because I get a lot of images spam, and too big images.

Luckily, a plugin called Mail Attachments Iconizer exists precisely to help people who often get too big images.

When it is installed, images and other attachments like PDFs are always displayed as icons.

If you find an image or PDF you would like to view in place, the plugin adds a “View in place” option to the Contextual Menu:

I don’t use it myself as I live in a text-based world, but I know graphic designers who swear by it.

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Screenshots and more on kip’s features after the jump.

After you import your PDFs, kip’s main interface presents a list of tags in a window on the left, sized by frequency, a main window containing iPhoto-like thumbnails of your documents and a Details window on the right:

Click on image for a larger view

One nice feature is provided by a “zooming” mouse pointer. kip displays a zoom window with a list of current tags wherever you hold your mouse over the PDF’s thumbnail:

The app’s Preferences pane allows you to list a series of tags that kip will search for automatically when importing, to sync your PDFs on your iDisk and to manage how tags are added:

Selecting an individual PDF produces a pane on the right that lists information and tags for that document.

The tags here—which I haven’t edited—demonstrate how kip will match Proper nouns but doesn’t always pick up the title of PDFs in its tagging.

Any MailTags user will be instantly at home here. Keywords can be added, deleted or edited. You can open an information Inspector for the document or open it with Preview. It also keeps an eye on your iDisk usage.

A scanning feature allows documents to be saved straight into the app. It also inserts an “Add to kip” to the PDF services in the Print menu of your apps, making it easy (if you remember) to add a copy of new documents to kip’s database.

It’s clever and innovative and slick, no question. I haven’t decided yet whether it adds enough to my productivity to replace the list of PDFs that a Spotlight search spits out. Time will tell.

The current version of kip (1.0.1) is free, although the developers warn that they will be charging for future versions of the app. You can get it from their web site .

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First, it is now AppleScript-able. Almost all the items in Yojimbo can be scripted, so I would expect some nifty scripts to appear soon which will speed Yojimbo up even more. (UPDATE: Within minutes of me putting this up, Fraser Speirs writes in the comments about some scripts he has already knocked out for web archives and NetNewsWire headlines and that he has posted on his wiki . Sweet!).

Secondly, searching has been significantly improved. It now searches like Mail.app and iTunes, automatically inserting an AND between separate words. The toolbar displays the search stats as it does in other apps. The “All” search option is more comprehensive.

Thirdly, several existing features have been tweaked. You can now sync with .Mac when Yojimbo is not running. Launching the app is noticeably faster and some bits of the interface have been reworked to make them clearer.

Fourthly, PDF handling is much better, especially with password-protected PDFs.

There’s no sign of the nested folders that many users requested after the first release, but I’m sure that they are not far away. Nor is there any sign of closer integration with Mail.app, which is one of my hopes.

Lastly, there is now a “Buy Yojimbo…” command on the application menu when running in demo mode. That’s important because you should buy it or, at least, take the product tour at Bare Bones, try it out and then buy it .

Software as smart and pretty as this deserves its reward.

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