![]() Right click and select "Capture selection from screen" and you can get the screencap you want. Once in the message, you can screengrab on the fly. The icons are largely self-explanatory, and you can also drag an attachment to the dock icon to create a new message. Threaded messages work as you'd expect, and you'll get a notification if there's a new message added to the thread. When you delete messages, however, make sure to do Option+Backspace to fully delete the message and not just hit the Backspace key, which will archive the message. Right click and you can archive messages, label them, and get rid of spam. A small star on the left will let you star messages. With the preview pane minimized, you can double-click on a message to show the entire thing. If you have a large inbox and don't want to synchronize all of it, there is an option to download messages on demand, which limits the synchronization. I can read my mail on the iPad and it'll mark as being read through Sparrow without having to re-download the message - my biggest pet peeve with Mail via OSX. It makes it very nice for when you're using other programs like Mail on the iPad. Like Mailplane, Sparrow syncs with Gmail, so while you have messages on the Mac, it doesn't wipe them from the Gmail server. For those happily wed to Gmail's shortcuts, you can set those to override Sparrow's so you're more comfortable.īest of all, Sparrow gives you the option to turn off the ad that normally resides at the top of the message panel. You also have the ability to set up custom shortcuts to show/hide Sparrow and create a new message. Sparrow supports aliases, which you also have to manually add to the account you use the alias with. It's not a deal-breaker, but a small hassle that I hope will be fixed in the future. This meant going back to Gmail and copying over my signatures. That's all well and good, but I have specific ones that I use for various accounts. What Sparrow won't import, however, are your signatures. Like iChat, you can either set your own icon or if you already had one associated with your Gmail account for chat purposes, Sparrow will import them. You toggle back and forth between accounts by clicking on the small icons. You can start off with just one account, but it's easy to add more through preferences. Messages are presented in a narrow column with a button on the bottom right of the panel to expand a preview pane. Probably will switch again witin a couple of months but for the time being Mailplane is my Gmail client of choise.Sparrow dispenses with both the Gmail and the Mac Mail interfaces and goes for a very streamlined look that users of Tweetie for Mac are familiar with. But it doesn’t crach or hang which wins out in my book. Neither is the downloads of attachements UI. The preview functionality of images, pdf’s and such things is not as good as Kiwi’s. Tried it out and now it’s my Gmail wapon of choise :). ![]() So reading Omar Shahine’s blog I stumbled upon a reference to Mailplane. I hade some interaction with the support and got a ”we know we have stability issues with your version” answer. Then it stared crashing, having porblems with preview windows and stuff. ![]() Worked like a charm, hosted multiple accounts in isolation. After beta-testing for a while I got it and I was happy. ![]() I have multiple gmail accounts and had a hard time finding a nice solution for that.Īlong came a kickstarter project for Kiwi for Gmail, I imediatly liked it an backed it. That was a step up but I had challanges ther two. When I switched to Mac after a lifetime in PC land I found out about Fluid app (on the Ruby Rogues podcast I think) which let’s you wrap any webapp as it’s own Mac app, with a dock icon and all. So I pinned it to the first tab, which was ok but not awesome. Then I started realising the the it drowned visually among the other tabs in chrome. I’ve been using gmail for a long time and have been using the web UI. ![]()
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