DoubleStory: Mailroom, Gmail at your Fingers. Review and Giveaway.

Like Mailplane for the Mac, Mailroom alleviates some of the pain of using a Gmail account on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Using a long, complex password I created in 1Password, it’s a pain in the butt to manually log into Gmail with my credentials each time. Especially when you have multiple accounts. While 1Password does make an iPhone app (that I do have), it’s still not a simple process to log in.

Mailroom allows me to save all of my Gmail credentials in the app, but what makes that different from Apple’s own mail? Federico and I have decided to team up for this review, so you’re going to get a little something special today - a MacStories double team if you will.

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Arq Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Arq giveaway. Also, I’d like to thank Haystack Software for the 10 licenses he gave to MacStories.

Here are the names of the winners:

Justin

Keir

CannonGod

Shadowchaser

Pattulus

Fabio

Bruna

Mark Hewitt

SuperGlide

jaryre

You’ll receive the theme in your inbox in a few hours.

Cheers!

Ghostly, Mood Music Monotony

I’m a big fan of things like Last.FM, thesixtyone, and other services that can turn me to new music or help me get into (or out of) certain moods. Ghostly Discovery is a free application that allows me to get into the mood of things. Or at least tries to. On one hand it’s an application that I really want to love. On the other, it’s hard not to look past some obvious pitfalls.

Let’s take a look shall we?

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Pixelmator 1.5.1 Is Now Available, 1.6 “Nucleus” In the Works

Pixelmator has been updated to 1.5.1. Here’s the changelog:

  • Brush Collections;

  • Fit Images and Crop Images Automator Actions;

  • Move to Applications dialog;

  • A tiny Dock menu;

  • The ability to change the background color of the work area;

  • Many more tiny improvements and important bug fixes

From the same blog post:

“The entire Pixelmator Team is getting to work on Pixelmator 1.6 Nucleus, and it is going very well.”

TaskMate: Minimal, Simple, Uncluttered To-Do List

You hate Things, you can’t stand The Hit List, you don’t want to use a web based application. You want minimalism in your GTD app. Or maybe, you just want a simple to-do list application, because that’s how you get things done.

TaskMate by Ryan Conway is a straightforward Mac app that lets you enter tasks, delete them and mark them as complete. Nothing more, just checkboxes.

TaskMate Mac

TaskMate Mac

When Apple will bundle a Tasks.app with Mac OS X I’m sure it will be something like this.

Also, it’s free.