Greasemonkey up your Gmail
I ran across two things for Gmail users today. Adam Pash at Lifehacker has posted a tutorial of tips and tricks for getting the most out of Gmail. It even has video clips! Among other things, he talks...
View ArticleGmail shortcuts in Thunderbird and Fastmail
Gmail is made faster and more efficient by a range of keystroke shortcuts . Now Mozilla users can enjoy the speed boost in Thunderbird and Fastmail customers can also get some of the bonus with a...
View ArticleAppleScript for Return Receipts
Odissefs Pantazis-von zur Gathen (very cool!) has written an applescript that will request return receipts from recipients with email clients that can handle them. Many people look for this if they are...
View ArticleOld Style GTD: MailTags for mutt
Somehow mutt never dies or outlives its usefulness (see earlier Hawk Wings post, “mutt: A thing of beauty is a joy forever“). At least, that’s the experience of the writer at dot unplanned . Last week,...
View ArticleScripts to automate the Mail.app Envelope speed trick
Thursday’s tip about trimming the fat out of Mail’s Envelope Index for a leaner, faster Mail.app got a fair bit of coverage. Two readers liked it so much that they have produced applescripts to do the...
View ArticleEasy Growl alerts in iCal
Some time ago, while I wasn’t watching, Thomas Aylott updated his clever scripts which make iCal able to pipe its alarms through to Growl. Previously, when Hawk Wings last blogged it, the process of...
View ArticleMail Scripts gets even more leopardy
Andreas Amann has pushed out two quick updates to his Mail Scripts applescript collection. Now at version 2.8.2, changes include a fix to make the Schedule Delivery script work in 10.4 and 10.5, a...
View ArticleKiller list of Google Calendar tips
Christina Laun at VirtualHosting.com has posted a killer list of 50 tips, scripts, extensions and hacks to make the most of Google’s Calendar service. She starts off with some basic tips, keyboard...
View ArticleSpeed up pasting in Word with scripts
[Although I use it a lot at work, I don't usually post Word tips on Hawk Wings. This one, though, is too good to pass up.] If you do a lot of cutting and pasting from one document to another in Word...
View ArticleScripts to integrate Toodledo with mail.app and MailTags
Hawk Wings reader Himanshu Shukla emails to share two applescripts he has written which integrate the online to-do manangement service Toodledo with Apple Mail and the prince of productivity plugins,...
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