Melinda & Cristiano

Starting from today, Mailplane is localized to Dutch. Me and 5 other translators did our best to bring the tool to Dutch, Icelandic, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. All and all the app now runs in 11 languages. Pretty neat!

[Read announcement on Mailplane blog]

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Yes, it’s time for Appdate #10, meaning that there are at least 10 cool applications out there for the Mac!

My pick for this Appdate is a simple little application that does something very powerful: it prevents your Mac from getting any sleep. The fitting name that was chosen for this application is Caffeine as it works like a shot of caffeine to your OSX. It measures only 48KB and it can be downloaded for free from here.

The idea behind Caffeine is that there are these moments that you want to prevent your Mac (including the screen) to go to sleep or standby. Some examples for why you would want to do these include reading a PDF on screen, or showing a YouTube movie to friends. In both cases you don’t want to go and touch the mouse every few minutes, and you neither want to go and mess with your power saving settings.

When installed, Caffeine gives you a little icon in your menu bar that can be clicked on to turn Caffeine on/off. It is the simplest app I ever used, but it does something so powerful that I can’t live without it anymore. Thanks to Melinda for pointing this little application out to me.

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I got an invite from Tom Morris a few days back for MailPlane (why do you need an invite to download a beta app? just because it IS an invite?) and I must say I like the tool a lot. MailPlane is basically an Application wrapper for GMail, enabling you to have a Mail like app that allows you to drag and drop attachments into a GMail email and much more. It is still in Beta and definitely not complete, but give it a try. I have 4 invites left, so drop me an email to have me send you one.

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