Forgive me if I'm missing something, but I already have this with my Thunderbird email client, which allows me to assign tags with customizable names and colours and to sort my emails into an arbitrary set of folders.
Re-Designing the classic email client
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Re: Re-Designing the classic email client
#212This guy has teeny tiny letters hardcoded into JPGs on his web site. I can't read it. Fortunately, this means I can disregard what he has to say about UI/UX. Sometimes the medium IS the message.
Looks really bad on my retina Macbook pro, all pixelated. If he's to do that JPG stuff, he ought to include x2 images :)
If the apps could use the real pixels instead of a "retina 2x" mode, there wouldnt be any problems. Those things are apple-specific implementation details (badly designed imho).
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks really bad on my retina Macbook pro, all pixelated. If he's to do that JPG stuff, he ought to include x2 images :)
If the apps could use the real pixels instead of a "retina 2x" mode, there wouldnt be any problems. Those things are apple-specific implementation details (badly designed imho).
Apps can use 'the real pixels'. The lastest builds of Final Cut Pro X and iMovie can show full 1080p video at native resolution in their tiny 3-inch preview windows, and most games will let you set the resolution to the native 2880x1800 .
That wouldn't actually improve this situation, though. Showing this image at native resolution would make the text not be pixellated, sure, but it would also be near-unreadable at 1/4th the size.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's counted as one message each for the sender and receiver in the US. We are then billed simply by that number.
Conspiracy theories are bunk. That fact that US citizens stand for SMS double billing is the best proof that we're sheeple.
I don't know anyone who doesn't have an unlimited texting plan.
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#215Don't fix email. Fix communication. Why, on my iPhone, do I have: 1. An email app (which required a major update to unite mail boxes) 2. A "messages" app (which abstracts out two different message systems) 3. A phone app 4. A contacts app 5. Twitter 6. Facebook 7. Skype What I want to do is (a) send messages to people (I don't care how), (b) check messages I've received (from anyone, using any method), (c) manage my…
As a business owner, I can't think of anything worse than trying to maintain an archival system for a bloated platform that would combine all of that together. I do however think that interoperability needs to be improved. Sounds like this would be a great time for a rewrite of the UNIX Finger tool to solve a problem like this. Real-time client/address lookup and can be protected with some kind of pub/private key.
Right now, all of it is ending up in email anyway, except for SMS (maybe -- googlevoice can route your SMS to email). So you get the disadvantages of archiving all that crap (which actually turns out not to be that bad -- my gmail acct is only half full, and it even has wordpress database backups routed into it) without the advantages.
(Surely writing a rule to automatically throw away old voicemails, say, is pretty easy.)
Re: Re-Designing the classic email client
#216Don't fix email. Fix communication. Why, on my iPhone, do I have: 1. An email app (which required a major update to unite mail boxes) 2. A "messages" app (which abstracts out two different message systems) 3. A phone app 4. A contacts app 5. Twitter 6. Facebook 7. Skype What I want to do is (a) send messages to people (I don't care how), (b) check messages I've received (from anyone, using any method), (c) manage my…
So in other words lets go back to big monolithic software suites controlled by one entity. I can't imagine a faster way to kill innovation and go back to the bad old days of things like the Mozilla Seamonkey Suite (its a browser, its an email program, its a html editor, and it sucks at all 3). Firefox stole that crown for a reason.
Seperate apps all competing for your attention/dollars is a feature not a bug.
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#217Have you taken a look at the code? It's disgusting, seriously.
Re: Re-Designing the classic email client
#218Don't fix email. Fix communication. Why, on my iPhone, do I have: 1. An email app (which required a major update to unite mail boxes) 2. A "messages" app (which abstracts out two different message systems) 3. A phone app 4. A contacts app 5. Twitter 6. Facebook 7. Skype What I want to do is (a) send messages to people (I don't care how), (b) check messages I've received (from anyone, using any method), (c) manage my…
The unification of all my different messaging types (well, SMS, IM, twitter, skype etc.) is precisely why I'm still using an N900 - there's lots of other things it doesn't do brilliantly, but it does this specific thing way nicr than anything else I've used on a phone.
Re: Re-Designing the classic email client
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's counted as one message each for the sender and receiver in the US. We are then billed simply by that number.
Conspiracy theories are bunk. That fact that US citizens stand for SMS double billing is the best proof that we're sheeple.
>the best proof that we're powerless.
More accurate. People need to communicate, and SMS is a good way to do that. Would we like it to be cheaper? Of course. There have been numerous lawsuit attempts, petitions, and boycotts. Doesn't matter. There's nothing we can do to change it. If everyone just stopped using it, they'd bundle it in with a package you had no choice but to buy. If you just abstained from a cell phone, you'd be in more trouble than you'd have been 20 years ago since payphones and emergency phones no longer exist.
It's not that people pay it and shut up about it, it's that people pay it because there's no other real option.
Re: Re-Designing the classic email client
#220Don't fix email. Fix communication. Why, on my iPhone, do I have: 1. An email app (which required a major update to unite mail boxes) 2. A "messages" app (which abstracts out two different message systems) 3. A phone app 4. A contacts app 5. Twitter 6. Facebook 7. Skype What I want to do is (a) send messages to people (I don't care how), (b) check messages I've received (from anyone, using any method), (c) manage my…
Google Wave tried to do all that and failed.