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Widescreen Mail.app plug-in


Widescreen Mail.app plug-in
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Widescreen Mail.app plugin

As the monitors in my life have gotten wider, I’ve longed for a Mail.app feature that’s baked-in to most other Mac email apps and RSS readers (as well as all the Microsoft email clients I’m aware of): the three-paned, widescreen format.

Prayers apparently have been answered in the affirmative with harnly.net’s Widescreen Mail.app plugin. On my 1440x900 MacBook Pro this works great, but it’s truly a godsend on my ginormous (and beloved) Dell UltraSharp.

This Mail.app plugin rearranges the interface into three vertical columns — so the message pane is to the right, rather than below, the message list.

On a widescreen Mac, this gives the email a more pleasing paper-like shape. You’ll probably need at least 1280 and perhaps 1440 pixels across for this arrangement to work for you.


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Merlin Mann is an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster. He’s best known for being the guy who started the website you’re reading right now. He lives in San Francisco, does lots of public speaking, and helps make cool things like You Look Nice Today. Also? He looks like this, answers questions, and has something like a life.

 
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