utilities/system updates

11/12/2007, 5:30pm, EST

Monday, November 12th

Widemail offers 3-pane look in Leopard Mail

Advanced Mail.app users using Leopard waiting for the more efficient (and popular) custom-three pane look in Mail.app can now use WideMail 0.1.0. While many users have been waiting for Aaron Harly's Letterbox plugin that provided similar functionality under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, the new plugin provides similar functionality and allows users to more efficiently use the screen to display mail. The interface also allows an interesting dual-line view for each email that displays the subject along with the sender and date in a two-line column. The latest version has been ported to native objective-c, making it both smaller and faster. The plugin is free (donations accepted) and requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (Tiger users should download the original Letterbox, which the author told MacNN -- before this past weekend -- should be updated "real soon now" for Leopard, although the blog has no updated information on the status of the plugin since November 1st).


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11/12, 5:46pm, EST
I tried this plugin and it fudged mail up pretty bad.
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works for me
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11/12, 5:59pm, EST
don't know what happened with you, amartins02, but it worked just fine for me. Ran the installer, then right-clicked the column to choose WideMail.

Only bad thing to say about the plugin is that the dates/times on the second line aren't lined up neatly -- each message displays its own date/time at a specific distance from the subject (looks sloppy), rather than in a way that let's us read vertically down (efficient and ordered).
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