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WiseStamp was declared best Social Media Gadget 2009 in Mashable’s Open Web Awards. Since its launch, over a quarter of a billion emails have been sent using WiseStamp.

Download WiseStamp today, and be sure to check out the other great Add-Ons available for Postbox!

Here’s what’s new in Postbox 3

How to Upgrade

If you have a Postbox Lifetime Upgrades License, then simply enter your license key into Postbox 3 and you’re all set!  There’s nothing you need to purchase.

If you purchased from the Postbox Store on or after August 15th, 2011, then you already have a Postbox 3 license key! Simply download the new version from our website (the trial) and Postbox 3 will use your existing license key, mail settings, etc. There’s nothing more to set up!

If you purchased from the Postbox Store before August 15th, 2011, then you are eligible to upgrade to Postbox 3 for only $9.95. Visit the Postbox Store and enter your Postbox 1.x or Postbox 2.x license key during checkout. Next, download the trial version of Postbox from our website and enter your new license key. That’s it, enjoy!

If you purchased from the Mac App Store, instructions on how to upgrade can be found in the Postbox Start Page. Select “Home” from the “Go” menu for details (note: Start Page must be set to the default in Preferences / General).

For more information on upgrades and licensing, please see our FAQ.

Thanks for your support!

A huge “thank you” to our awesome users and beta testers for helping us define and test this release, we couldn’t have done it without you!

We’ve been busy preparing Postbox for the OS X Lion release, and today, we’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of Postbox 2.5.1 for both Mac and Windows.

Improved Conversation View

In Postbox 2.5 we redesigned the message view, and 2.5.1 builds upon these enhancements with greater visual separation between messages, larger profile pictures, and improved keyboard control.

To navigate through the Postbox interface, simply use the Tab key and then Option-Arrow on the Mac, or Alt-Arrow on Windows, to page through messages. Powering through your email has never been easier!

OS X Lion Styling

Postbox ships with a beautiful icon set with vibrant colors, and now, Postbox on the Mac also sports a monochrome set with Lion-style sidebar icons. Interestingly, Lion’s style requires two sets to be created for default and selected states. We’re thrilled with the quality and elegance of these new icons, as Postbox now fits perfectly with Lion’s new interface.

More…

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Postbox release without a bunch of usability and reliability enhancements. For the full set of changes, please see the Postbox 2.5.1 Release Notes.

Postbox 2.5.1 is a free update for all Postbox 2 customers on Mac and Windows, and can be downloaded today from the Postbox website. For our Mac users, Postbox 2.5.1 will be available in the Mac App Store very soon!

We’re very excited to announce the immediate availability of Postbox 2.5! This new release brings significant performance and usability enhancements, terrific styling, and a new low price.

Here’s what’s new in Postbox 2.5:

• Fast 64-bit Support for Mac OS X - On the Mac, Postbox 2.5 is now running in 64-bit mode, which translates to faster startup, snappier interface elements, and quicker message loading.
• Vertical Thread Pane View - Postbox now supports a double-row Vertical Thread Pane View, which makes more efficient use of widescreen displays.
• Streamlined Message View - We’ve re-designed the Message View to make message and conversation loading quick and seamless. The result is a silky-smooth reading experience that’s easy on the eyes.
• Improved Interface + New Mac Theme - We’ve made the Postbox interface simpler and more intuitive, plus we have a fresh new theme for the Mac by Benjamin De Cock, and a new icon set by Kenichi Yoshida.

For the full set of changes, please see the Postbox 2.5 Release Notes.

Postbox 2.5 is a free update for all Postbox 2 customers, and for new customers, Postbox is now priced at just $19.95. Postbox is available today at the Postbox Online Store, and will be available in the Mac App Store soon.

If you spend a lot of time in email, you owe it to yourself to download Postbox 2.5 today!

When I started work on a new Mac theme for Postbox, Mac OS X Lion was on the horizon so I thought it was the perfect time to dig into its new and awesome style. For Postbox 2.5, I had two main design goals:

1) Look as native as possible
2) Reduce clutter and complexity

Finding the right balance between something that has its own personality, but still adheres to the native Mac look and feel, was tough. The temptation to redesign the default elements is always huge for a designer, but I strongly believe it’s something UI designers should avoid when working within a native environment (web apps are a whole different story, obviously). Giving users a look and feel they’re used to is very reassuring - it’s like they already know the app before launching it for the first time. Also, working with constrains is great. For some reason it pushes a designer to find clever implementations and UI details in order to stick with the conventions.

Reducing the clutter was also a big consideration. There are a lot features and a lot of different ways to use Postbox. It was important for us to account for those different needs, but we also wanted to keep the interface as clean as possible. Mac OS is a huge inspiration for this, as they’re doing a terrific job in reaching people who are less tech-savvy and hardcore geeks. It has been a real benchmark for me for Postbox 2.5.

Postbox 2.5 is a terrific design milestone, and more design improvements are on the way to make Postbox even more user-friendly and accessible for everyone.

Here’s a sneak peek at new Mac interface:

Feel free to share your thoughts on this new update, your feedback is invaluable to me as a designer. ;)

Postbox 2.5 will release “very soon” and it will be a free update for all Postbox 2 users. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook to stay up-to-date on the latest Postbox 2.5 news.

More on Postbox 2.5:
• New Mac Toolbar Icons
• Message View Redesign
• Vertical View
• Unread Bubbles
• New Addressing Widget

Actually, two icon sets.

You see, Apple is moving towards an iOS or monochrome style for its toolbar icons in Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). So we wanted to know if Postbox users preferred the color icon style used in Pages and Numbers, or the monochrome icon approach used in Safari and the Mac App Store.

We surveyed over 2,500 Postbox users and found that 59% of Postbox users preferred color icons while 41% preferred the monochrome icons.

So we decided to do both!

The color icon set in Postbox 2.5 is being designed by Kenichi Yoshida, who has also done some terrific work at Panic.  Here’s a sampling of his color icon set:

The monochrome icon set was designed by Benjamin De Cock, who also designed the new Mac theme for Postbox 2.5:

Our next post will touch on the new Postbox 2.5 Mac theme in more detail.

Remember, Postbox 2.5 will release this summer and it will be a free update for all Postbox 2 users. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook to stay up-to-date on the latest Postbox 2.5 news.

More on Postbox 2.5:
• Message View Redesign
• Vertical View
• Unread Bubbles
• New Addressing Widget

In Postbox 2.1.4, all message header elements are contained within a single envelope region, as displayed below:

The downside to this approach is that the envelope will resize whenever someone is Cc’d, causing the message content to jump vertically as you page from message-to-message. This design also includes a dedicated Topics row (even when no Topics are present), and it doesn’t make efficient use of horizontal space, which is particularly important for Vertical View.

When moving from a single message to a conversation, the envelope resizes to accomodate a single participants row, and the date field jumps from the envelope to the message row, which can cause the interface to feel “jittery.”

In Postbox 2.5, we’ve simplified the display by separating elements that pertain to both single messages and conversations (such as subject, topics, and actions) from elements that are unique to each message:

This design creates a region where elements stay fixed as you transition from message to message, while minimizing the number of elements that move within the interface:

This design also keeps elements aligned as you move between single messages and conversations:

Notifications such as the Remote Images Notification will now display just above the message content, which keeps message headers from being pushed out of place:

One final benefit to this redesign is that the message headers will now scroll with the message content, enabling you to view more message content at one time.

These improvements create an email experience that feels fast, solid, predictable, and more usable. We know you’re going to love these changes once they’re released!

Postbox 2.5 is coming this summer, and it will be a free update for all Postbox 2 users. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook to stay up-to-date on the latest Postbox 2.5 news.

More on Postbox 2.5:
• Vertical View
• Unread Bubbles
• New Addressing Widget

Postbox 2.5 is scheduled to release this summer, and it’s a free update for all Postbox 2 users. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook to stay up-to-date on the latest Postbox 2.5 news.

More on Postbox 2.5:
• Unread Bubbles
• New Addressing Widget

One small change is the use of unread bubbles within the Accounts/Folders Pane, so here is your sneak peek of the day:

In addition to improving the readability for account and folder names, this addition will feel more familiar for users on the Mac.

Postbox 2.5 is scheduled to release this summer, and it’s a free update for all Postbox 2 users. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook to stay up-to-date on the latest Postbox 2.5 news.

More on Postbox 2.5:
• New Addressing Widget

Over the next few weeks we’ll be providing sneak peeks on what’s new and cool about Postbox 2.5.

To kick things off, we’re excited to announce that we’ve completely rewritten the addressing widget to allow for individual addressing fields:

Once an address auto-completes, it turns into a contact bubble that can be reordered, moved to another addressing field, or right-clicked to bring up a contextual menu of options.  When addressing to a group/list, the addressing field will expand to display all participants, wrapping contact bubbles to the next row if needed.

To and Cc fields will display by default, but the compose window can be adjusted to show or hide Cc, Bcc, Reply-To, etc.

We’ve found the new addressing widget to be a lot more usable, and it’s tremendously convenient to see more contacts at one time.  We can’t wait to start work on re-styling and finishing touches.

Stay tuned to learn more about Postbox 2.5 in the next post!