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Getting contacts out of Gmail into Mail.app

Tim Gaden — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:55:54 +0000

Ross at Simplehelp has written an excellent tutorial with screenshots on how to get your contact information out of the Gmail and into Address Book for use in Mail.app.

The app used in the process is called Address Book Importer , a clever utility that allows the user complete control over how to map the fields for import. It is also free for a single use (although the developer asks for a small donation if you use it regularly).

He has just released a beta version (2.0.5b3) which is a universal binary and features several fine-tuning tweaks.

The interface is clean and easy to understand:

The tutorial even tells you what to do with the mysterious “name” entry that appears when the import is finished.mail.app, apple mail, address book, gmail, contacts, importing, CSV, universal binarySimilar Posts:

MailUnreadStatusBar notification app goes Universal

Tim Gaden — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:59:35 +0000

MailUnreadStatusBar, a discreet Menubar notification utility for Mail.app, has been released as a universal binary, which will run just as smoothly on Intel Macs as well as PPC ones.

Like Mail Unread Menu, MailUnreadStatusBar takes a low-key approach to notifications. Rather than popping up an alert screen as Mail.appetizer and GrowlMail do, it just keeps score in the Menubar, so that you can see how many unread emails you have without getting unduly distracted.

Its drop-down menu offers options to open, show or quit Mail and to perform an instant check for new mail.

It also lists the amount of unread mail in each of the mailboxes that you nominate in the app’s Preferences. Clicking on one of the listed mailboxes, opens that mailbox in Mail.app. (This helps me – a little – not to read Hawk Wings email at work).

The Preferences menu provides a variety of icons for the Menubar, the frequency with which to check for new mail and allows you to select which mailboxes the app should monitor (hold down the âŒ˜-key to select more than one):

A new option lets you choose just to have the number of unread messages displayed without any icon. This will please hardcore interface minimalists.

MaulUnreadStatusBar is freeware and is available from the developer’s web site .mail.app, apple mail, notification, plugins, unread mail, productivity, universal binary, mail.appetizerSimilar Posts:

New PowerMail beta: Fully Universal, faster

Tim Gaden — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:56:32 +0000

CTM Development has released a new beta of its email client PowerMail.

The new beta (5.5b2) is now a fully native universal application, a development which the company says underscores its “commitment to PowerMail’s future”.

It is now twice as fast thanks to code rewrites for its new universal status and upgrades to the database format.

The developers also say that Intel Mac users will notice much improved stability.

I took a look at PowerMail, which advertises itself as “A better Mac OS X mail client than Appleâ€™s own”, at the end of last year.

I was unimpressed then with its IMAP support, lack of native spam filtering, its lack of extensibility and its cost (USD 82 = 65 euros including a bundled copy of SpamSieve).

Still, people with POP accounts who like more complicated searching than Mail.app can provide, extensive AppleScript support and a mail client with a built-in text snippet manager might like to try it out.

You can download a demo of the new universal beta from the app’s web site . email in general, powermail, email, mail.app, apple mail, POP, IMAP, searching, universal binarySimilar Posts:

httpmail 1.49: Hotmail plugin finally universal

Tim Gaden — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:27:59 +0000

A lot of people have been waiting for this.

A new version (1.49) of httpmail, a plugin that allows you collect and your Hotmail in Mail.app, has been released which is a universal binary.

This means that you no longer have to use work-arounds like running Mail under Rosetta if you are own an Intel Mac and want to access a Hotmail account.

httpmail is freeware and is available from the project’s SourceForge page .hotmail, msn, microsoft, webmail, mail.app, apple mail, plugins, universal binarySimilar Posts:

Thunderbird 1.5.0.4: Universal binary!

Tim Gaden — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:12:40 +0000

A new version of Thunderbird is out and it’s a universal binary!

It is also more stable and contains a number of security fixes. You can see the full list of changes on The Rumbling Edge.

Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 is available from the Mozilla web site .

[Thanks, Bronson].thunderbird, mozilla, universal binary, security fixes, emailSimilar Posts:

TapDex 3.0: Universal, function-keyed

Tim Gaden — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:32:55 +0000

Tapdex is a preference pane that enables you to access your Address Book contacts with a user-defined hot key.

A new version (3.0) is now a universal binary and supports the F13-16 function keys.

It’s very easy and quick to use. Hit your hot key and Tapdexâ€™s search window pops up. Type in the name and the search results narrow in real time until you are presented with the contact you are looking for:

Does this screen remind you of anything? That was my first thought too â€” BuddyPop.

Tapdex is a kind of â€œLiteâ€ implementation of BuddyPop. It does not have the rich feature list of BuddyPop (support for Skype, X-Lite and Vonage, Bluetooth SMS, etc) but it is free.

With Tapdex you can launch an email in Mail.app by clicking on the contactâ€™s email address, get a phone number in large type or map an address, which might be all you want to do.

Tapdex is freeware (although there is a USD 7 â€œProâ€ version that removes a small advertisement) and is available from the developerâ€™s web site .address book, hotkey, quick access, contacts, buddypop, universal binary, productivitySimilar Posts:

Postfix Enabler 1.2: Be your own mail server

Tim Gaden — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:10:00 +0000

Postfix Enabler is a graphic front-end to built-in services in Mac OS X that helps you to set up your computer to be its own mail server, that is to run its own SMTP, POP3 and IMAP services, with or without SSL support.

It also provides SSL test certs so that you can test the SSL connection. Going the other way, it offers an option to turn on SMTP-AUTH on the server, so that you can authorise remote users who need to send mail through it.

Plus, mobile users can use it to set up a roving SMTP server so that they can send mail wherever they are, whenever they want, so long as they have an Internet connection.

Version 1.2 has just been released which packages the app as a universal binary.

PostFix Enabler costs USD 9.99 and is available from the developerâ€™s website .mail server, postfix, SMTP, IMAP, ssl, pop, universal binarySimilar Posts:

iCalMaker 1.9

Tim Gaden — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:21:58 +0000

iCalMaker is an app that allows you to import, export, modify, convert, print out, translate or email your iCal appointments.

An updated version released today contains updated and re-written code and is a universal binary. It will now only run on Mac OS 10.3 or greater.

It also reports problem appointments better and fixes a number of smaller bugfixes.

iCalMaker is shareware (USD 34.95) and is available from the developer’s web site . You can also download a demo version which will only process 5 appointments at a time and starts to nag after a while.appointments, export, ical events, import, print, apple mail, ical, palmdesktop, vcal, universal binarySimilar Posts:

High Priority 1.1.1

Tim Gaden — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:15:14 +0000

The developer of High Priority continues to pound away at improving this Menubar iCal To Do manager.

The latest release (1.1.1) is a universal binary and allows you to hide subscribed calendars.

It is also much smarter at parsing iCal’s To Do information. The new version correctly displays non-standard completed dates that include time zone, due dates that include time, URLs that don’t contain a specified type and more.

You can use High Priority in a limited-functionality version for free, or pay a USD 6 registration fee for the full version. It’s available from the developer’s web site .universal binary, subscribed calendars, high priority, menubar, ical, to doSimilar Posts:

Spell Catcher X 10.2.2b3

Tim Gaden — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:33:55 +0000

An new beta of Spell Catcher X — part spell-checker, part on-the-fly text-formatter, part text-snippet manager — has been released.

It is a terrific app, good enough to feature in the Hawk Wings’ Top Ten list of things every Mail.app user should have.

It has been recompiled as a universal binary, but also contains a number of bugfixes, improvements and new features.

A new option in the Interface preference pane offers the ability to turn off its autocomplete functions in particular apps. In Mail.app, for example, it can interfere with the typing of email addresses, seeking to change them to something else.

It also now quits in a more permanent way and the update procedure has been substantially streamlined so that it no longer requires a restart.

Improvements have been made to its launch speed and to its interactions with widgets. In addition, Keyboard shortcuts that clash with system-wide ones are detected.

Check ?¢‚Ç¨?ìword?¢‚Ç¨¬ù, Find ?¢‚Ç¨?ìword?¢‚Ç¨¬ù in References, and Look Up ?¢‚Ç¨?ìword?¢‚Ç¨¬ù now works more reliably in Carbon apps like Office 2004.

On the downside, the app no longer supports OS 10.2 (Jaguar) due to requirements for changed coding.

Many further improvements and bugfixes are listed in the “What’s New” document on the disk image.

The beta is available from the Rainmaker web site.

The developer Evan Gross recommends reading the “What’s New in 10.2.2″, “Read Me” and “Release Notes” documents that are on the disk image before installing.

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