Quarta-feira

I think I'm going to whip up some mashed potatoes to go with my leftover steak from last night. And when I say "whip" I mean, add boiling water/milk to a packet of dried potato flakes. I wonder if some Better Than Bouillon would work in the water/milk mixture. I might be up for an experiment.

I showed Clint the Apple Mail plug-in that I got (WideMail) to view my messages in a panel on the right instead of always on the bottom. He then sent me a page full of links to other plug-ins and apps for use with Mail. I've spent a little too much time on that page and blog. But I love finding out how to work better and more efficiently. I'm trying out two others right now: Flagit! and DockStar.

Flagit allows customized flags but to apply them is not a one-click function (you have to right-click and choose from the contextual menu) and it seems you can't sort by the custom flags or use them in Smart Mailboxes or Rules. Doesn't seem that useful to me.

With DockStar you can add and customize up to five notification badges on your Dock icon with your chosen colors and shapes for whichever mailboxes you want to track. I have mine set to my Gmail inbox, my work mailbox (which is filled using Rules) and my work inbox (which collects mail that doesn't fit any Rules). I set only my work box to alert me with a sound. We'll see if it helps or if it's just annoying.