Standing in the Field
Notes from SJS Application Server Field Engineering
Standing in the Field
Notes from SJS Application Server Field Engineering
Discovered a new utility today: Mail.appetizer. It's a plug-in to Apple's Mail.app. When you receive a new email, the plug-in displays a transparent window that has a preview of the contents of the email. You can click on it to bring up the email in Mail.app or just ignore the window and it will disappear in a few seconds.
This allows you to quickly triage emails. If an email is important, you can open it up and immediately respond. But if it is just some piece of electronic bureaucracy, the preview pane lets you know that you can safely ignore that "new messages waiting" indicator. All without having to leave your current application. It's probably the coolest use of transparency that I've ever seen.
Simple, useful, cool, pretty. Very Mac like.
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Posted by reha gur on October 21, 2004 at 07:00 AM PDT #