A while ago I blogged a screenshot of Mail.app’s Dock icon being cheeky when it has too many unread emails to count.

Today a friend sent me another picture of Mail getting funny, this time with attachments:

This was caused by a cut ‘n’ pasted iChat transcript packed full of emoticons.

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DockStar is a plugin that allows you to add up to four additional notification badges to Mail.app‘s Dock icon for specific accounts and mailboxes.

An updated version has been released. It has been recompiled as a universal binary and adds several welcome new features.

The notification badges now count emails in subfolders (nested mailboxes). You now have the option to set the opacity of the badges and a new Aqua lozenge-shaped badge has been added.

In addition, DockStar now has a “count all” option, allowing DockStar to display the total number of unread emails in all mailboxes.

Most welcome of all, perhaps, this new version (1.1) resets the demo period, allowing a new trial for users whose previous trial period has expired.

DockStar is shareware (USD 8) and a demo of the updated version is available from the developer’s web site.

A German Mac user has posted what he says is a screenshot of Mail.app‘s notification badge after your unread mail count reaches a certain number.

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