I am managing more than 8 different POP e-mail accounts within my Mail.app. It is setup so it checks new e-mail every couple of minutes, as I really want to be fast with both reading and replying to the e-mails. While three of my POP accounts are related to newsletters and mailing lists, they aren't so important to check them out as soon as something new lands in the inbox. The other thing is that from time to time I am expecting an important e-mail, so with every number that increments in the Mail.app dock icon, I open the application to check out if I received THE e-mail. Now with DockStar, I am stepping up on optimizing these types of situations. Enjoy the simplicity of online poker at prime multiplayer poker poker gambling portals.

DockStar was released a couple of days ago by Ecamm Network, a company that develops a line of Mac OS X and Palm OS software products. Because the software offers very specific and therefore very limited functionality, the installation, setup and usage are a piece of cake.

Upon installing DockStar, the application will make you quit Mail.app. This is done because it needs to integrate in Mail.app's preferences menu.

For the initial DockStar setup you need to open the Mail.app and go to the Mail -> Preferences menu. You will see that the application placed its icon on the right side of the icon toolbar. In this 1.0 version, users can setup five different badges for their needs. Everything on the setup screen is so easy and straightforward - you just need to chose what mail folder each badge will represent. money mutual

The eye candy effect is managed on two ways. The first thing is that you can select the different shape for each of the badges. This is done by clicking on the badge you want to change. By selecting badge corners you can increase or decrease its size. The other customization step is to change the badge colors. You can do this by rotating the dials located on the right of the badge options.

There is another function, which is in my opinion rather useless, but on the other hand it is a big plus that developers were thinking about every possible aspect of their software. If in any case you want to revert back to the default color and shape settings, the software has an option to check what type of settings you would like to go back to. I need to clarify why I find this useless - mainly because the software is so easy to manage, so you can change all the colors and shapes literally within a minute.

A good tip for using DockStar is to setup specific filtering within Mail.app. I am talking about creating specific rules for e-mail addresses, subjects or whatever you want to point out. On this way you can output the filtering results to a new folder inside the Mail.app and use DockStar to show message count on the folder in question.

DockStar is a great addon for people that use their Mail.app with multiple e-mail accounts. It looks very nice and provides good and timely information on the current status of your mailbox. The software is reasonably priced at $8 and can be ordered from the developer web site.