dotMac Menu provides a convenient Menubar interface for .Mac account holders.

It lists handy shortcuts to .Mac’s webmail interface, Address Book, Groups and web pages, keeps track of iDisk usage and offers quick launch links for iSync and Backup. Holding down the Option key switches to a second set of links.

A new version (2.7) released today is a universal binary, adds a “Share with Groups” menu option and the ability quickly to open the web interface to your iDisk.

Another submenu allows you to configure which options to display in the menu.

dotMac Menu is donation-ware (suggested amount USD 5) and is available from the developer’s web site .dotmac, .mac, menubar, idisk, groups, plugins, web pages, universal, productivity

toread is a web service that allows you to “bookmark” or email yourself web pages with the single click of browser bookmarklet.

Of course, Safari users can do this manually by pressing Command-I, which sends the contents of a web page to a new Mail.app message, filling in their own email address and then sending the email.

This is much quicker and cleaner.

After registration, you are offered a bookmarklet to drag and drop into the Bookmarks Bar of your browser (I use Safari):

One click on this bookmarklet and the page you are looking at is emailed to your inbox:

There’s nothing else to do.

This may appeal especially to people who use Mail.app as an Information mananger, allowing for the quick and painless archiving of web pages.

The privacy policy of the service, which is run by the Japanese RSS management company Sidefeed looks OK to me:

About disclosing your personal information

We will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to any other third party.
We will disclose your personal information to outside third parties only when one or any of the following conditions are met.

When we have your consent to share the information.
To process and fulfill your order or notify you of order status.
When it’s necessary for us to observe the law.
When it’s necessary to protect and defend your rights or property.
When it’s based on the statistical purposes without any information that could be used to link that information to you.
We reserve the right to disclose any and all pertinent customer information to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate.

It is a clearly a Web 2.0 service, as it is in beta.email, bookmarks, bookmarklets, browser, archiving, web pages

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