Save Screen Real Estate With MiniMail For Apple’s Mail.app
MiniMail is a Leopard-capable add-on that creates a mini window for Apple’s Mail program, much the way the iTunes mini player works. MiniMail enables you to see new messages at a glance without eating up precious screen real estate.
Once installed, to switch to the MiniMail view just click on the main Mail window’s green zoom button and your windows will be minimized. From there you can drag it out of the way, into the corner of your screen where you can keep an eye on it without having to switch applications.
The MiniMail pane can be resized to whatever dimensions suit your screen environment and the menu bar element features Get Mail, New Mail and Options menus for quick navigation. MiniMail also supports most of Mail’s keyboard shortcuts and even adds a few of its own.
It’s also possible to display both the MiniMail window and the main Mail window at the same time for the best of both worlds.
Cool as it is, MiniMail does have some limitations, for instance, MiniMail doesn’t automatically jump to the front when new messages arrive. In other words, it might look like a Growl window, but it doesn’t function that way. Of course that doesn’t mean you can’t use it in conjunction with Growl.
MiniMail is shareware ($9) with a 30-day free trial available.
[via Hawk Wings]
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