Gmail is one of the best (if not the best) web email service available, with over 5gb of storage for all your email, along with a powerful spam filter, automatic attachment virus scanning, and much more.
Gmail is easy enough to use in your internet browser, but have you ever wished it was even easier? No? Well once you try out Mailplane, you’ll wonder why you ever put up with your internet browser.
Mailplane is an application similar to a browser, but designed specifically to work with Gmail. For example, instead of back/forward, there are overview/open buttons. There are also toolbar buttons for going to newer/older messages, composing a new message, replying, archiving, starring, etc. Some features that really seal the deal are drag-and-drop attaching, a download manager, a button to open a web-based Google Talk, as well as the ability to manage multiple Gmail accounts in an account drawer.
It’s not all good, however. For example, there are some toolbar buttons which do the same thing as Gmail buttons, like Archive or Delete, making them pretty much useless. The app suffers from some minor visual bugs, and Leopard users will be disappointed to find that the handy “Attach Screenshot” feature doesn’t work the most recent update fixes this problem.
Mailplane is a private beta app, and can be found here, complete with tutorial video. Fortunately I have two six(!) invites to give away, so as usual, the first six people to comment on this post will receive one. This offer will stay on indefinitely until Mailplane is released as a non-beta app, in which case the invitations will be useless. Mailplane is now my primary email app, ending Apple Mail’s one and a half year reign on my desktop.
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