I haven’t seen a piece of screen art this good since Easter .

A fine piece of satirical screenshotting on current events.

And a little sliver of Mail.app there to add distinction.

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Aaron emailed me a screenshot of Mail.app taken from an episode of the TV show Weeds (Series 2, Episode 5), which you can see below. Another screenshot has been posted on Flickr. It seems to show a message preview pane in a drawer on the right.

I am suspicious. It looks like a photoshop job to me.

Tiger icons and Panther Mail drawers seem odd. The Apple menu seems to be missing, the app is identified in the menubar as “Email” rather than “Mail”, the Applescript menu is where it was positioned in Panther, whereas it is on the right in Tiger Mail. The Junk mailbox appears below Trash in Tiger Mail but these are reversed in the screenshot (and these cannot be reordered):

On the other hand, it appears to be a functioning app. I’ve not seen the episode, but Aaron tells me that “the cap comes from a longer sequence that shows the character browsing through an inbox full of mail, with multiple messages popping up in that pane.”

A puzzle. What do you think?

[Thanks to an Apple Mail demi-god for technical advice. You know who you are!]mail.app, apple mail, tiger mail, panther mail, weeds, screenshot, photoshop, plugin

If you spend a lot of time taking screenshots (as I do), you will like Screenshot Plus, an image capture widget with a very neat trick up its sleeve.

Like other screenshot widgets (Capture for example) it can take fullscreen grabs, selections or particular windows. Unlike Capture, it can also do timed screenshots and grab individual widgets. These options are presented nicely on the front of the widget:

On the rear, the widget offers something truly time-saving. By default it displays the screenshot as a preview after capture, but you can set it (as above) to import the screenshot directly into your image editor of choice.

In my case that’s Photoshop. The time (and finger-wear) I will save by not clicking and dragging from Desktop to app is immense. It will even launch the editor for you if it’s not already open.

Of course, I can still make a cup of coffee while Photoshop loads, but that’s not the widget’s fault.

A drop-down menu allows you to specify your destination of choice—another image editor or iPhoto or whatever.

Images can be captured as png, tiff, jpg, jp2, pdf, gif, bmp, or pict files.

A new version released a few days ago adds 10.4.7 compatibility and better French language support.

Screenshot Plus is freeware and available from the developer’s web site . screenshot, capture, images, productivity, widget, time-saving, helpful apps, not apple mail

When Windows Vista is released, the default email program Outlook Express will be rebranded as “Windows Mail”. (You can read in an earlier post how the similarities with Apple Mail, its main competitor in the default OS email client stakes, are more significant than the name alone).

The latest beta of Vista (version 5342) was released on 24 March. Screenshots of the OS in general can be found on x64bit.net.

As well as “the glass look” and innovative features like windows that “flip” in 3D, the new beta offers a “sidebar”, into which you can drop things that look like widgets.

A screenshot of Windows Mail from this latest beta has been posted on the German site winfuture.de. Here it is:

Click the picture for a full-sized image

Unfortunately the “About Windows Mail” dialog obscures some of the interface, but I think you can get the general idea of the way in which the new look Outlook Express is developing. Spooky.

It looks a lot better than recent screenshots of the next Outlook at any rate.windows vista, windows mail, apple mail, mail.app, email, screenshot, sidebar

Paparazzi is one of the few non-Apple Mail apps that I like to post about on Hawk Wings. It’s just so terrifically useful.

Paparazzi takes a screenshot of a complete web page.

Open the app, plug in the URL of the site you want to capture, and click on the Capture button:

The app presents you with a preview of the web page, in this case the current front page of Hawk Wings which is rather long.

You can them save the image off as a PGN, PDF, JPEG or TIFF file. The Save as screen also offers options to save the image as a thumbnail and adjust the quality of the saved file.

Since I last posted about it, Paparazzi has got even smarter. It now offers limited AppleScript support, offers presets for the minimum size and cropping of images and a thumbnail option.

A new version released yesterday (0.4.1) adds a “Capture with Paparazzi” System Service.

Paparazzi is freeware and is available from the developer’s web site.paparazzi, web pages, not apple mail, screenshot, bloody useful little app

Boris Anthony has posted a very nice screenshot of the new MailTags 1.2 (now in the final stages of beta-testing).

It shows off the new integration with iCal very well. Check it out.

Every day beta-testers come up with new and interesting ways to extend MailTags 1.2 even more, which sends Scott back to the coding dungeon and delays release a little.

But, boy, it will be worth the wait!mailtags, mail.app, apple mail, screenshot, beta, ical, integration, to dos