ottmar1.4
an ambient dashboard widget for monitoring email
by stephan.com

ottmar is a Dashboard widget that provides an ambient monitor for your Apple Mail or Gmail status. It shows a flower for each new email in your account, up to four. In addition, it can filter for text in the sender or subject of your emails, allowing you to watch for email from that special someone.

Apple Mail mode requires no configuration, it's automatically set to monitor your inbox. In Gmail mode, click on ottmar to go to your gmail account in your default web browser.

ottmar was created in collaboration with renowned musician Ottmar Liebert, whose works fuse flamenco guitar with rock, jazz, pop, and influences from around the globe. Please visit his web site to discover new music, photography, writing and more, or puchase music directly from the iTunes storeicon

If you like ottmar, please consider making a donation to say "thank you." Or, better yet, hire me.

find more widgets or explore stephan.com.

mail: stephan@stephan.com


ottmar is distributed for free under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 license.
The image is by Ottmar Liebert

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.


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version history

6/21/05: ottmar 1.4 fixes google's change of RSS feed URL.

(whoops, forgot to note other versions, oh well, too late)

5/10/5: ottmar 0.9
released to internal testing

faq

email me with your questions!

q: How to I uninstall ottmar?
a: Apple's answer:

You cannot remove widgets from the Widget Bar or change their order.
No, but really, just remove it from ~/Library/Widgets/ . Dashboard is pretty bad about noticing the difference, but it'll figure it out, just scroll left and right.
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