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Emojinator Christmas Update

Daniel Gattermann — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:29:31 +0000

As a small gift for christmas, I’ve updated Emojinator with some nice changes:

Added fullscreen mode. To use it, add Emojinator to your home screen: tap “+” in MobileSafari and select “add to Home Screen”.
Replaced “Send to” buttons with text explaining copy and paste.
Removed confirm dialog on Emoji selection to speed things up.
Removed text input field. Displaying Emojis directly in the page for convenient copy and paste.
My favorite: the title bar uses a WebKit gradient on iPhone/iPod touch instead of an image. Speeds up loading time.
General GUI improvements.

Check out the new version at http://emojinator.cinnamonthoughts.org from your iPhone or iPod touch!

Delay Marking a Mail as Read in Mail.app

Daniel Gattermann — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:40:34 +0000

It always bugged me that whenever I’m deleting an e-mail in Apple’s mail client Mail.app another mail is selected and subsequently marked as read. Cmd + Shift + U became a good friend of mine. (It marks a mail as unread.)

TurePreview is a lightweight Mail.app plugin which gives you all the time you need to change the selected mail and thus prevent a mail from being marked as read. This is very handy if you keep unread mails as a have-to-reply reminder in your inbox. (This is the opposite of GTD—I know and I do it just for mails I have to reply to.)

TurePreview can set a general delay or delays on a per account basis. Whatever floats your boat.