Posts Tagged ‘toolbar’

MailFollowUp plugin updated: Now with toolbar

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

MailfollowupGreg Welch has updated his MailFollowup plugin. (See an earlier Hawk Wings post for more information on how this plugin can make your conversations smarter.)

He has added a toolbar icon, smarter handling of multiple email accounts, new and nice install options and reworked the logic for formulating replies.

The toolbar icon can be added through the Customizise panel:

Mailfollowupicon

(It looks a little out of place here because I have stripped out the icon “lozenges”. Normally it looks just fine.)

People with multiple accounts will be glad to hear that the plugin now automatically identifies which account the original was sent to and uses the same account to compose the reply.

Greg WelchGreg, who looks rather too well-dressed to be a developer, has also worked hard on the installer.

It now lists the names of all your other installed plugins, offers to do a complete backup your Mail folder and preferences to your Desktop and warns you if the bundle compatibility is incorrectly set.

Last of all, he has changed the logic on how the replies create cc and/or bcc for the original and/or followup sender. Some additional unusual cases are handled better, and the overall process is faster.

MailFollowup is freeware and available from Greg’s web site .

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Making Finder’s Toolbar work for you

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

FinderRubin emails to ask:

I was reading your new post on Address Book syncing and backup, and I noticed on the screen capture that you had a little Yojimbo icon on your Finder windows. I’m a Yojimbo user and a big fan too. How did you get this little icon and what does it do?

Fair question.

While the Finder Toolbar can be expanded with many useful pre-defined extras (Control-Click on Finder’s Toolbar and select “Customize Toolbar…”), you can also add your own favourite items:

Findertoolbar

I dragged some of the apps that I use a lot (TextMate, Terminal, Yojimbo) from the Applications folder onto the Toolbar. That creates a shortcut on the Toolbar. Now I can quickly launch the apps by clicking on these icons and, more importantly, I can drag files onto the icons to open them.

I’ve also added on the right some of the folders into which I often need to file things. When tidying up, I drag the files onto those folders and they’re filed.

Of course, there are other ways to do these things, not least Quicksilver, but another option is always welcome.

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