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Hawk Wings Best of the Year
Here's another great end of year post. Hawk Wings is one of my favorite blogs covering all things related to Mail.app (as well as other email and GTD related stuff). Anyway, Tim is taking a Christmas break until January, but he has his own best of Hawk Wings 2006 end of year post chock full of cool Mail related tips.Also, if you haven't seen it be sure to check out his enormous list of Mail.app plugins
Hawk Wings updates an already massive Mail plugin list
We mention Hawk Wings from time to time here on TUAW, as it's a great blog for all things Mail.app. One handy resource of Tim Gaden's Mail-obsessed blog that not everyone knows about, however, is its ever-growing directory of plugins, in which Tim relentlessly tracks and categorizes all the 3rd party add-ons, scripts, haxies, tweaks and other Mail goodies. The list was recently updated with 10 new entries, ranging from Note to Self (inspired by Leopard's Mail.app Notes feature) and a Return Receipts AppleScript (you know, that feature where you can bug email recipients with a 'yes I read this' dialog) to a Mail to Yojimbo script for those times when the 'print to Yojimbo' service is less than convenient.Check out the recent update and the full plugin directory for virtually any and every tool you could need to make Mail.app bend to your every whim.
Quicksilver alpha builds, B50 Bulldog
HawkWings brings us two quick notes about everyones favorite OS X do-everything app, Quicksilver. According to a thread in the QS forums, contrary to many a users' expectations, setting QS to check for pre-release versions does not get you the very latest bleeding edge super Xtreme sub-alpha builds of the application. Instead, if you feel you are Xtreme enough to handle pre-pre-release builds of Quicksilver, head on over to the GetQS.com developer page. Speaking of ultra-alpha versions, Quicksilver B50 Bulldog was recently released, and although it doesn't sport much in the way of new features, it does have a sexy new menu bar icon.
Hawk Wings lists 10 Mac OS X tools for Getting Things Done
Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings has compiled a list of ten Mac OS X tools that can help you implement the Getting Things Done philosophy in the way you work. The tools are broken down into three categories: email clients, dedicated GTD apps and web-based solutions for that ultimate cross-platform effect. Mail.app, of course, starts off the list. Once combined with a few Smart Folders and the powerful Mail Act-on and MailTags plugins, Mail.app can become a most powerful GTD tool indeed. Other featured tools include kGTD (an OmniOutliner Pro template), a Todo.txt script for the ultimate in plain-text GTD, EasyTask Manaager (a stand-alone app without the GTD learning curve), iCommit (a web-based PHP tool), Backpack, Gmail and even wikis. Check out Hawk Wings' list for more ideas and tools to help you, well, get things done.
Quicksilver cheatsheet and user manual
Whenever we post about Quicksilver the comments soon start filling with people asking, 'What's so great about Quicksilver,' or 'How do I use this crazy program?' A Quicksilver user has taken it upon himself to write up some documentation for this rather inscrutable program and he is making it freely available.Howard Melman has started writing both a user manual (PDF) and a cheatsheet (PDF) to help people get started with Quicksilver. Great work, Howard![via Hawk Wings]
Hawk Wings wraps up "Talking Mail.app" series
Hawk Wings, Tim Gaden's blog about all things Mail.app, has been running a series for the last couple months in which he chats with various developers and "iCelebrities" about the ups and downs of Apple's default email client. The list boasts around 20 interviewees ranging from Brent Simmons (of NetNewsWire fame), Rob Griffiths (of MacOSXHints and Macworld), John Gruber (of Daring Fireball), as well as devs of all sorts of handy utilities like Textpander, FlickrExport and much more. In the series, Tim asked these individuals a well-rounded set of questions that make for good brain food, such as: what plugins they use, their favorite/most hated thing about Mail.app and the one thing they'd tell the dev team if they could.Conveniently, Tim put together a roundup post linking every interview, so head on over to Hawk Wings and get your learn on with various "iCelebrities" and Mail.app.
Apple thanks Hawk Wings, mentions open positions
Tim Gaden over at Hawk Wings received a message from Apple's Mail team containing both a mention of two open positions available, as well as a compliment for "all of the work you put into frequently updating Hawk Wings with informative posts." Open spots on the Mail team include a software developer (req. id 2536021) and a QA engineer (req. id 2326207). Use those Job Requisition Numbers at jobs.apple.com to track down the respective listings for more information.Congrats to Tim on the compliment from an Apple software team. Here's hoping they saw the response to our "What would you change about Mail?" post a while back.
