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Gmail on a Mac

I travel extensively for work. Usually I have my MacBook along for the trip, but sometimes I am left to use someone else’s devices. That is way I original signed up for Gmail. After three years of using Gmail, I am now a believer. Gmail is what I have always wanted in an email service. Almost 3GBs of space (not on my hard drive), Archiving, Contacts, Labeling, Amazing Spam Filter, Chat, and much more! I use Gmail for the iUseApple.com domain and it allows me to administer users and email accounts. Sign up for Gmail here.

Anyone else who uses Gmail on a Mac is probably annoyed by one aspect of it. Whenever I click on an email on a website, Mail tries to open and makes a blank email composition for me to write. There are some fixes for this problem out there if I use Firefox. Mail is an elegant application, isn’t it? I can hook up my Gmail address to Mail, but I lose half the functionality that makes Gmail so brilliant!

Mailplane to the Rescue!

Gmail and Mac weren’t friends until now. Mailplane is an Application currently in development that marries Gmail to OS X. Mailplane has the elegance of Mail with the functionality of Gmail. I can now directly print emails from Gmail easily. Whenever I click an email address on a wesbite, Mailplane pops up to handle it. Mailplane fits seamlessly with the rest of OS X.

Mailplane is still a Beta application. Ruben is the man behind the Mailplane project. I found one bug when I first signed up a month ago. The problem was addressed promptly in the next update after I messaged Ruben on the Mailplane forums. There are so many people interested in Mailplane that there is waiting list. I signed up and within two weeks received an invitation email to participate in the Beta.

Go sign up for the Mailplane Beta to start using Gmail on a Mac!