Filed under: Macintosh, E-mail, Productivity
Mail Badger - why stop at just one badge?
by Jay Hathaway May 24th 2008
Although Mail Badger sounds like a small woodland creature trained to deliver packages, it's actually an OS X app that allows you to add extra badges to the Apple Mail dock icon. For some people, it's good enough to have one single red badge, proudly displaying the number of unread messages from all their email accounts. The developers of Mail Badger didn't want to stop there: why not have a different badge for each account?
Once installed, Mail Badger lives in your Apple Mail preferences. There are a few preset shapes - hearts, stars, circles and the default starburst. You can adjust the color, size and font on these easily, and even upload your own. For power users, Mail Badger will assign a badge for messages that meet search criteria you specify, and it will also badge the results of an AppleScript. This app is definitely worth installing for anyone who keeps mail across more than one folder or account.
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Dinesh said 12:01PM on 5-25-2008
Thanks a bunch for this.. I've been trying to look for a free solution to customising my Mail.app dock icon..
This works perfectly with Leopard and Mail using GMail IMAP access!
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