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Animail 1.6 with Push Notifications

Say hello to 2012 and to Animail 1.6 with Push Notifications! Animail now notifies you when a new email or direct message arrives. If a message is new AND important (=highlighted), Animail will even let you know with a bark. A badge on the app icon shows you the number of unread messages in your accounts.

Animail now also offers search when browsing. No need to exit the app for ad-hoc web searches any more. Just drag the search field from the top of the webpage you are viewing.

We hope you enjoy Animail's new tricks and we wish you a Happy Year 2012!

More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

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Animail 1.5.1 update

A new update for our little dog puppy just hit the App Store. So, what's new in Animail 1.5.1?

1) New Twitter Authentication:

Triggered by changes on Twitter's side, we had to change our Twitter authentication procedure. When you first start the new version of Animail, you will be prompted to re-add your Twitter accounts. If you chose not to re-add them before the end of June, Direct Messages will stop working in Animail.

2) Animail can now resolve Twitter's t.co URLs and display linked images and videos in the file view. Yay!

3) GMail accounts: As described in the previous blog post, Animail no longer fetches the 'All Mail' folder.

Enjoy!

More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

Posted by The Animail 

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Animail no longer fetches GMail's 'All Mail' folder

We changed the behavior of Google Mail accounts in Animail:

Animail will no longer import the 'All Mail' folder - a change that was requested by many of you.

As a consequence, the next 'refresh' will take longer, as Animail does a 'full sync' of all GMail folders except the 'All Mail' folder. But you don't need to wait until Animail is done fetching all the news: feel free to leave the app and check back later, it won't interrupt the process.

More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

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Animail 1.5 just went live at the App Store

It's been a while since our last version 1.0.4., but now we make a big jump straight to version 1.5:

First of all let's address the most frequently requested feature (by a wide margin), the 'Full Tweet View':
Animail now shows you the full text of a tweet in the timeline. And not only tweets, but also emails now let you peek inside straight from the timeline. No need to open each tweet individually to read it. Here is Animail's new timeline:

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But that's not all. With version 1.5 we introduce 'Link Preview'. This feature makes reading tweets much more fun than in other Twitter clients:

When you tap on a tweet to open it, the content of the link now automatically loads and displays in the background. We call it a preview, but it's essentially more than that: it's the real thing, you can start browsing right there. We've used this for a while now and we hope you will love link preview as much as we do. This is how it looks:

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Apart from those two major new features, we also made it easier to highlight emails. When you tap & hold an email, a popup menu appears offering to either highlight or darken all emails from that sender. That's it. Starring also works this way now.

We hope you like those new things in Animail, we'd love to hear what you think!

Animail 1.5 is available as a free upgrade for existing users or at $1.99 (1.59 €) for new users. Enjoy!

More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

Posted by The Animail 

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Animail 1.5 beta survey questions

Our 1.5 beta is coming to an end and as usual we want to hand our beta users a small (really!) survey to give us some plus or minus points on what we've done. Please share your experience here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QJR8YST

(Hint: If you couldn't join the beta test, but want to take the survey to give us your Animail feedback, just note that in the 'anything else we need to know?' field at the end. Thanks!)
More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

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Animail beta 1.5 feature preview video

We've just posted a short feature preview video for the upcoming Animail 1.5 beta:

Please drop us a note if you want to get Animail 1.5 beta and join our beta test program.

(If you are a 'veteran' beta tester from the days of Animail 1.0, then you are already on our list.)
More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

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Animail 1.0.4 - Speedy Tweets and a Better Email Reader

What's New In Version 1.0.4 - now live at the App Store:

  • Automatic setup for GMail for Business domains.
  • Tweets now show immediately when opening, and can be read without Internet connection.
  • Introduces pinch-to-zoom for emails.
  • Multiple attachments in emails / tweets can be navigated as an image gallery.
  • Fixes resizing problems of some HTML emails.
More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

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IDG publication iPhoneWelt reviews Animail

Animail got tested. iPhoneWelt magazine (a publication of IDG Germany) took it for a walk and reviewed and rated it. And they even did their own demo video! Sweet. You can read and watch both (in German) here:

http://www.macwelt.de/kanal/iphone-welt/apps/produktivitaet/animail/187/1125 More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

Filed under  //   App   GMail   IDG   IMAP   Recommendation   Twitter   email   iPhone   iPhone 4  
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Animail is Retina ready and now supports Yahoo!Mail accounts

Our second update of Animail just went live on the App Store.

Animail now shines on the gorgeous new iPhone 4 Retina Display. We have redone all the UI elements for the high resolution screen.
Plus Yahoo!Mail users rejoice! We taught Animail a new trick: he now knows how to fetch the news from Yahoo!Mail accounts.

What's new in version 1.0.2:
  • Enhanced UI for Retina Display of iPhone 4
  • Added Yahoo!Mail support
  • Multitasking Support: Sending messages continues after the user switches to another app in iOS4
  • Changes in the iPhone's address book are now immediately reflected in Animail's contact list
  • Fixed: in some cases a single message was added multiple times to the timeline when refreshing
More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

Filed under  //   App   Display   GMail   IMAP   Retina   Twitter   UI   Yahoo   Yahoo!Mail   email   iPhone 4   ready  
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Animail dresses up for iPhone 4

After three days of work, we've finished redoing all custom UI elements of Animail for the new, gorgeous retina display of iPhone 4.

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Judging from what is preinstalled on the showcase iPhone 4s at the Apple Store in Munich, not so many apps seem to be ready for the 960x640 display yet.

We would have loved to test the update on a real device but for now the iPhone Simulator remains our only choice as we're stuck on a huge waiting list to get our shiny new gadgets from Deutsche Telekom.

Can't wait to see the new polish on the real thing!

More on Animail at:  http://theanimail.com

Filed under  //   Animail   App   Display   Retina   Twitter   UI   email   iPhone 4  
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