Google : Please let me run my filters on existing mail

15 Feb 2006

My gmail inbox has admitingly gotten a bit out of hand.

I’ve got 1200+ (mostly) unfiltered messages sitting in my inbox.

I’d love to start filtering them, and in fact I have, but there doesn’t seem to be a mechanism in place to run a newly created filter over an existing mailbox.  At first I thought I must be missing something because it seems like a pretty standard thing to do so.  However, after finding this site, it seems I’m not the only one wanting this.

If someone has a solution, please point me in the right direction. Perhaps theres some API that I could access to programatically run a filter over the inbox?

JDIC and OS X : Revisited

07 Feb 2006

I blogged a few days ago about an exception that was cropping up when doing a Desktop.open() on OS X.

Tonight I hacked out a simple solution.

Instead of

Desktop.open(file);

I do:

if (OSUtils.isMacintosh())
{
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(“open”, file);
}
else
{
Desktop.open(file)
}

OSUtils.isMacintosh() just does a check against ‘os.name’ to see if it matches the signature of a macintosh.

Pretty simple. I haven’t actually tried it out in the application yet, but a simple test had it launching the native text editor so it appears to work as expected.

Dance Dance Evolution

02 Feb 2006

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