Since Google released Gmail one of its most popular features is its Conversation View. Google built their mail system around the idea that individuals are carrying on a conversation through their emails and that those conversations are weakened when spread throughout an inbox.
To account for that problem, Google built gmail with technology that would automatically link conversations over email together. When someone replies to your email the response is automatically connected to other emails that you’ve received from the individual on the current topic in the email.
I know that I personally was a bit frustrated at first when I started to use Mail with my Gmail account because I lost the “conversation” features. I didn’t want to have to sort through my email to find the other emails in a conversation. Luckily for me, Mail also included a Conversation View, I just hadn’t enabled it yet.
To view your emails in a conversation similar to the way you do with Gmail:
- Open Mail and View
- Select Organize by Thread
After filtering your email by threads, you’ll notice some additional detail and option in your inbox. Blue arrows will let you expand and collapse emails to see all the others that make up the email conversation or, as Apple has titled it in Mail, the email thread.
Hopefully this quick tip will allow you to optimize your Mail experience. What other features about Mail make it a powerful email client?
You can always tell how good an idea is by how quickly someone else copies it. Google Chrome’s multi-process per tab or window idea must be a good one.
Despite Google being embarrassed about not having an OS X version of Chrome ready at launch they have been working diligently to get one up and running. But, they aren’t fast enough. Stainless, a new web-kit based browser for OS X has released their initial build. And the number one feature that Stainless has is its ability to mimic in many ways Google Chrome’s multi-process capabilities.
But while Stainless will offer Google Chrome some competition in the OS X environment, it isn’t anywhere near ready for the main stream. The initial release basically just features the ability to have a process per tab and to browse the web while doing so.
Features like bookmarks, view source, history, and many others are still not available in Stainless. In fact, the initial release is just showing that multi-process browsing can be accomplished.
Stainless admits on their home page that their approach to multi-process browsing is far less ambitious and easier to do than what Google is trying to do with Chrome but is using the browser to show of their own productHypercube, a tool that lets you really control the widgets on the web and desktop.
Will Stainless continue to develop or have they done what they set out to do… Prove that multi-process browsing on OS X is easy enough?
Discuss Stainless, Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox in the Maciverse Forums.
Since Maciverse was founded, we’ve done our best to provide new and interesting insights on how to get the most out of your Apple Products. We hope that our hints, tips, reviews, and news are beneficial to you, our readers.
The number of visitors to Maciverse.com increases each month and we’d like to offer a bit more to our readers. We know that we don’t have all the answers to getting the most out of your Macs, AppleTv, iPhones, and iPods and hope that you, our readers, will be able to help all Apple users with their devices.
With that in mind, we’d like to announce the Maciverse Forums. The Maciverse Forums are structured to allow anyone to come and ask questions, give answers, and provide help for other Apple users. Additionally, we have seen from your comments that you often need unique solutions to the tasks you’re trying to complete. Maciverse Forums is the place to go ask for help and receive guidence from Dan, Aaron, and the rest of the Maciverse community. The forums can be accessed from the Forums link above.
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September has been an exciting month for Maciverse as we’ve reached new highs in subscriptions and traffic. As always, we appreciate your comments, feedback, and insight and look forward to interacting in new and different way with our readers through the coming months.
In case you missed some of the articles this month, please check out some of Maciverse Best for September 2008:
- Google Chrome – We mentioned its release (and lack of an OS X version), How to build it yourself, and Crossover Chromium (the wine approach).
- How to fix the iPod & iTunes error that many experienced with versions 2.1 & 8.0.
- How to install and boot OS X from USB device
- Turn your iWeb blog into an iPhone ready format.
- 5 must have free music applications for the iPhone
Thanks again, let us know how Maciverse can help with any of your questions.
Apple recently made some updates to the way that you can purchase iPhones. Although they still don’t let you make the transaction online and have the phone sent to you, you can start all the pre-sale prep work before actually heading into get your phone.
From the iPhone section of the Apple Store, clicking “Find Where to Buy” now takes you to the iPhone 3G Buy Page. This page allows you to walk through the information an Apple Store employee would ask you when you go into to make your purchase and allows you to then send that information on to your closest Apple store.
Set a time that you’d like to make the purchase, head into Apple, and they should be all ready for you with your phone.
This is an interesting approach for Apple, and I’m sure many people wished they had this option when the phone was first released. It may have shortened the lines and saved a lot of people time. Additionally, it will time Apple Employees have to spend with new iPhone purchasers and instead lets them continue to do their best to sell customers other Apple products.
