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Would the real Quang show his thang?
E3 may be over, but the Joystiq team is still blowing through posts and tying up loose ends from a wild, sleepless week of non-stop blogging. When I posted about Blake Snow getting trampled in Friday's early morning Wii stampiid, I thought the man whose badge Blake "traded" for in the ensuing chaos might step forward. Instead the post provoked a flurry of "I am Spartacus" commenters claiming to be one Quang Nguyen. Fortunately, Joystiq reader Sepll Cehck has tracked down a guy on the web who looks like he really could be the Quangster (pictured at right). The Quang man is welcome to have his exhibitor badge back assuming he's the right Nguyen, although it won't do him much good now. I'm waiting for an email. In the mean time, if a small Asian man approaches you claiming to be Blake Snow of Joystiq, don't believe him.
DockStar updated to v1.1
We posted about DockStar last December, but for those who might not remember: it's a simple little app that offers extra badges on the Mail.app dock icon to display unread counts of other mailboxes and folders. This seemingly minimal point update actually packs quite the new feature wallop, including the ability to count mail in subfolders/nested mailboxes, badge opacity control, and the ability to simply display an unread count for all unread messages in every folder/mailbox you have.DockStar costs a mere $8 USD, and its demo lasts for seven days.[via Hawk Wings]
DockStar
We all love the little red badge on Mail.app that tells you how popular you are (ok, it actually tells you how many unread emails you have, but that's the same thing, right?). However, if you have more than one account in Mail the icon is almost useless to you.Enter DockStar, this clever little program allows you to have up to 5 badges, displaying email from 5 different email accounts, in the Mail icon. The best part is that you can pick different colors and shapes for the badges.Thanks to everyone who sent this one in.
