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DESCRIPTION
DockStar is the smart way to keep an eye on your Mail. Add new badges to the Mail dock icon and clickable indicators to the menu bar. DockStar lets you keep track of email in various accounts and folders, RSS feeds, Notes, and To Do items with customizable badges in the Mail icon, menu bar, Dashboard, and even in a Screen Saver.
Power-users can't live without DockStar to keep tabs on their many folders and accounts. Casual emailers love DockStar's fun shapes, colors, and sounds.
- Assign a badge to up to 5 different mailboxes.
- Assign badges to individual account inboxes.
- On Leopard, assign badges to Notes, To Dos, and RSS feeds.
- Clickable notifications in your menu bar.
- Choose from six fun shapes.
- Fine-tune the size of each badge.
- Select just the right color and transparency for each mailbox.
- Display unread count, flagged count, or junk count for mailboxes.
- Includes Dashboard Widget and fun Screen Saver!
- In English, French, German, Polish, and Japanese.
- Free 7 day trial.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1:
- Adds option to show new mail indicators in the menu bar.
- On OS X 10.5 badges can be assigned to RSS, Notes and To Do mailboxes.
- Total Unread option can now exclude RSS feeds.
- Clicking on a badge in the Dashboard Widget or the menu bar now automatically opens the mailbox in Mail.
- Adds a new shape.
- Improved support for Smart Mailboxes on OS X 10.5.
- Many other fixes and enhancements.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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SCREENSHOT
| Developer: | Ecamm Network |
| Downloads: | 7,276 |
| - Version d/l: | 2,064 |
| Internet: | Email |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 25 Dec 2007 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $9.95 |
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| DockStar User Reviews (10 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Aug 28 2008 |
BLOCKSOFT Great little utility. I discovered it whilst waiting for Dockstar (free equivalent) to support 10.5. It has worked flawlessly for four months since I installed, and whilst I have no interest in the screensaver option, I can see it would be of use to some users. (Version 2.1) | |
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 | Jan 3 2008 |
BABY BLOC I may have to get this now. The addition of a menu-item makes this program useful for me finally. I keep my dock hidden, so dock labels aren't very useful. All I want is the number of mails on the menu-bar, in the least space. Even the old programs that used to do that are growing incompatible (not sure if MailUnread will work with Leopard). And most of them had a useless icon on the menubar next to the number of mails. Like I'd forget what the number was? Happily deleting the icon file made it go to just a slim number. Whew. But now this flashy program, that doesn't cost too much, will do that for me, with maybe some other features too? I may have to take you up on it. Nice job. (Version 2.1) | |
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 | Dec 26 2007 |
SIDDHARTHA Great program, and the developer is awesome, too-I have had NO problems with the software, the price is right, and it does what it says without any issues at all. The developer even emailed me to let me know that my copy had somehow been copied from my system to a file sharing network-I had my Mac open to try and access it from work-this helped alert me to the possibility of other software being compromised. A nice gesture, and appreciated I use the software everyday, and I am quite happy with it (Version 2.1) | |
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 | Sep 21 2007 |
LART Look at Mail Badger. it is Free, does the same, and has more functions. Just search within MacUpdate and compare. BTW: Why bloating every application with an "additional screensaver"... I personally have on one screen. JM2c. (Version 2.0.3) | |
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 | Oct 31 2007 |
J-A-X The only advantage of DockStar right now is that it works in Leopard and Badger does not. (Version 2.0.3) | |
 | Nov 23 2007 |
KASPESLA These are some advantages to DockStar over copy cats: - Works with all smart folders - Compatible with a customized Mail icon - DashBoard Widget (Version 2.0.3) | |
 | Jul 9 2007 |
BILL DAMON Is there a problem with the Input Manager that Dockstar installs? Whenever I install Dockstar on my system I start having frequent crashes of both Firefox and Safari. When I remove the Ecamm folder from the Input Manager folder the crashes stop. Anyone else had this experience? | |
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 | Sep 20 2007 |
KASPESLA Please contact Ecamm support with any problems instead of posting them here where we can't respond directly. We actively support our products with 1-on-1 customer service. | |
 | Apr 15 2007 |
SEVENONLINE Dont seem to be able to get the Screensaver to work properly, only badges 1 and 4 work and if i disable badge 4 the screensaver stays totally black. | |
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 | Apr 20 2007 |
KASPESLA Please contact Ecamm support with any problems instead of posting them here. We'd like to help get it working properly! (Version 2.0.2) | |
 | Aug 14 2006 |
JOBBY Slight problem with the subfolders feature - I have an 'all unread' Smart Folder which has one of its rules as 'Folder is not Work Email'. However, 'Work Email' is the root of my work IMAP account. The Smart Folder correctly excludes everything in the account, including subfolders. but DockStar only excludes items in the root of the account, not the subfolders. As a result, the unread count is much larger than what actually appears in the Smart Folder. (Given the number of folders in the work account, adding them manually to the rule is a bit of a non-starter, too :) (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Aug 14 2006 |
JOBBY Actually, scratch that - Mail's doing the same stupid thing as well. Completely the wrong behaviour, IMHO, but that's something to take up with Apple. (Version 1.1) | |
 | Mar 4 2006 |
BOBWEINER found out about this program from a positive MacWorld review. After a few days of playing with it, I decided to register the program. In short, it does what it says it does and it does it well. Kudos to the developer. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Jan 24 2006 |
ZOIDBERG Excellent little program. I have a few accounts that I check and wanted something transparent (as in how it works, not appearance) and elegant to distinguish what mailbox had what messages. This fits the bill quite perfectly. Great example of a "does what it does and does it great" app. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Dec 2 2005 |
T7 What a cute little thing. It's a one trick pony, but it's an amazing one trick pony. Just the thing you need when you're a mailjunkie like me. One view in my dock tells me what's up in the box (or rather, what's IN in the box) and where it's at. Very flexibele, very well done. Five stars (or whatever shapes you choose) :) (Version 1.0) | |
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