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Google Releases Gmail Notifier
Philipp Lenssen writes "After several unofficial, screen-scraping Gmail utilities, Google now released the official Gmail Notifier (Beta) for Windows. It will sit in the Windows tray, alerting you of new emails in your account (if you are lucky enough to have one already). Additionally, the Gmail Notifier can connect 'mailto:'-links in web pages to Gmail."
this is just one of the tools i've been waiting for. now if only gmail could have a "save as draft" feature...i can switch from my current webmail provider to gmail.
Is it 5:30 yet?
When will it learn to say "You got mail!" ?
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From the FAQ, it also says that it can play a sound when new mail arrives. And that sound is actually just the Windows New Mail Notification sound in the Control Panel.
And it's been mentioned before, but I still think the Gmail Loader is still a handy utility. I'm migrating a lot of my mail and accounts in to Gmail and this thing was a huge help.
How long until someone reverse-engineers this API and makes an OS X and Linux client available?
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I mean, come on, Win32 only?
us Linux users?
Meh.
I keep my browser open all the time (including a tab to gmail) and it refreshes automatically. I don't see the benefit, unless having Yet More processes running is a good thing.
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Now I will have an up to the minute report of exactly how MUCH spam im getting. And with a Gig of email space, I can learn about Coeds who want to show me thier cams, and low cost Ci@lis, maybe even learn how to start a buisness-- all without having to clear my inbox every two days.
Gtray has been working FABULOUSLY for me.
Don't need to switch unless there are more options that google can provide; which from the website there isn't any.
http://torrez.us/gtray
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I've been using something similar as an extension to FireFox. It works pretty darn well, but you obviously have to keep your web browser open for it to work. This program might be pretty cool, I'll have to give it a shot.
For those interested, the Firefox extension can be found here:
Gmail Notifier
This is obviously the first step by google towards integration of search and the personal interaction space.
How long before our contact lists in gmail are moved to orkut and into a messenger?
I wonder if Google collects statistics on how many and what type of operating systems hit google a day... I am betting a large percentage of people that use Gmail don't use Windows. I reserve the right to be wrong.
Sure it tells you about your email, but does it block pop ups?
Mac users have this http://homepage.mac.com/carsten.guenther/GmailStat us/ as a freeware option.
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Google...good
Windows...evil
Windows only Google app...does not compute!
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in the fact that I've just been sitting on my gmail accounts and not actually using them?
I wonder if someone here has the same problem as me: I get constantly swamped with GMail invites. Far too much people are sending me these stupid invites and it's really getting on my nerves.
Well, it was fun for the first 20 or so, but now it's really annoying. Even people I just remotely know are sending me this stuff.
I usually sign them up with bogus data just to stop this madness but it doesn't really work.
Does anyone know when Google is stopping its beta test ? I hope soon otherwise I see a nervous breakdown coming.
This is something that has been in the fires for a while for Firefox users. Doron Rosenberg authored an extension that allows the same functionality. You can find it here.
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Why don't they just skin Windows? They have the toolbar, mail checker client thing, searcher bar that can sit in the task bar. I mean, just have google be a part of every single app on the desktop.
and there is no option to configure it to use https. Wouldn't it have been nice to have http as default, but ability to use https too ?
The alerting space is also a growing one, especially considering the success of the third-party alerting Google Alert service based on the Google API.
I wonder what operating systems the users of this will be usuing. Maybe a larger-than-average percentage of people who use Gmail are on Linux instead of Windows. What then?
I mean those of us who autohide the taskbar. It's not clear whether the notifier will pop up or not (and we may not want it to - the possibility for distraction is obvious).
You can get it to play a sound, but the FAQ says it may notify in error up to two minutes after all new mail's been cleared. Beep! Beep! BEEP! Urrgh....
This is great! I know people who have been holding back on using GMail because of the notification thing. I sometimes still get email at my Yahoo account, and I am notified when I receive them. Every time the Yahoo notification thing pops up I am reminded of how almost-but-not-quite perfect GMail is. This little icon in the tray will end up being a bigger deal than it looks.
I've installed it and it works great. It uses the same slide-up text bubble idiom that AIM and Yahoo and Thunderbird use. But the bubble not only tells you that you have mail but also who it is from and if there is room, the first part of the text of the email. If you missed it, you can right click and select 'Tell me again...' and it will scroll through all your unread emails, so you can get a quick overview of what's going on in your Inbox right now without having to use your browser. Much nicer.
I don't understand why we are jumping through hoops to have auto refresing JavaScript-full convoluted html webmail that interacts with some little utility in your tray. I mean, I understand the convenience of webmail, but I think that installing this is whre I would draw the line between simple & easy and flakey & klunky.
Isn't 100% easier and more smooth to interact with POP3 and your favorite email software? Maybe it's just me. I've been using a hosting service for my website and email and I guess having that much control over the set up and delivery methods has made me skeptical of free webmail in general.
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I wonder if Google, but virtue of leaving certain portions of their systems open and accessible in a variety of ways, is really creating a large legion of creative and technical individuals who, without maybe even realizing, are working for Google for free, creating software like GMail notifier.
Even if Google cannot directly adopt somebody else's work, they certainly get a pile of high-quality ideas from 'the Lazy Web', which they can then use to direct their internal development.
Google is really playing this game so so so well, and it goes far beyong their technical PhDs.
If you think about it, this is much like the openness of Linux - does any OS out there have so many developers working on it 24/7? Nope.
Simpy
teasing us people who do not have a gmail account! This kind of information just leads us on and gives us information on tools 95% of the IT population can't use. I mean, how many times do you have articles on Windows Longhorn beta that talks about the cool new features that the beta users are using, when the rest of us can't use it???
Generally, I'm not logged into the net at home on a 24 hour basis - I disconnect my DSL whenever I don't need it. Paranoia can have its advantages.
Anyways, I need this tool at work. And some of us are still stuck with NT4 at work until the end of the year (when support dies and they finally upgrade us). This tool doesn't work with NT4, and I gather it doesn't work with 95/98/ME from the installer's error message. Just a heads-up for everyone.
Personally, GTray works fine for me.
What I find increasingly interesting is how Microsoft's competitors-- now that it's been made clear that united states antitrust law is not going to be enforced-- are trying to get around the Microsoft OS monopoly with what amounts to shareware. Microsoft has the power to create the default configuration for the vast majority of PCs, and since traditionally few users have stepped away from the default configuration this means Microsoft has the ability to dictate many things, from what formats will gain popularity to what web standards succeed or fail. If Microsoft desires, it can install a piece of software on every new copy of Windows in the world. Those companies that are not Microsoft do not have this luxury. Some of them now appear to be circumventing this by just trying to create random pieces of "must-have" software for free and bundling the service or format that they are actually making their money from with it.
For example, iTunes. Apple needs people to have support for Quicktime; however, they have no way of making Windows users want to install Quicktime. Webpages that require Quicktime will, of course, force you to download it, but such pages would seem likely to become scarce as webmasters realize that every computer has WMP already and using WMP instead of Quicktime will not require their users to download a plugin. Apple's solution is to create a music player program for Windows that is considered by many to be the best there is, which everybody then wants to download and try out. As a process of doing this, these people inadvertently wind up installing Quicktime. End result: every computer has Quicktime already.
Google here is just another example. Google appears to be anticipating that at some point Microsoft will start using its space within the desktop to promote some engine of its own and dissuade the use of Google. Google is reacting to this by trying to get a toehold into the desktop of their own, using things such as the Google Toolbar and now, the GMail notifier. Both of these things will be installed by users for purposes largely irrelivant to Google's search-- the former for popup blocking, the latter for mail-- yet doing this means that Google builds up inertia with everyone who "just has" to download their Google tools after every system upgrade. This means that when the system update comes where Microsoft decides that every time you accidentally control-click on a word displayed on the screen it will open up Internet Explorer and search for it in MSN Search, Google can use their toehold in the desktop to undo this change and replace it with something (1) useful and (2) involving google search.
This approach hits Microsoft hard where it hurts; Microsoft is excellent at creating software. However, historically they have by and large failed at creating good software. Microsoft's strategy of destroying competitors by bundling their own special brand of mediocre with roughly equivilent functionality for "free" with the OS doesn't work anymore once people start to wind up downloading the software of Microsoft's competitors free just because it's better.
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Isnt this kind of notifier common with other email service providers (yahoo and hotmail)?! So what makes it so special?
And with other email service providers beefing up the storage space, one would have thought this pre-occupation with a gigabyte email-storage would be over!
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if they were smart, they would open source it.
That would be one less thing to support, and the insurance that other plaftorms would be supported.
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I have 5 invites if anyone wants one. email me at tfandango_@_gmail_._com (remove the _s).
-troy
This looks like a nice addition and all, but for the seemingly few of us that don't have Gmail (it's still not available for general signup), do we have any idea of when Google will finally open this up?
Y! IM tells me when I have mail - on that account...
:-)
Gee even I am sick of me trying to debunk GMail as unecessary
I just wonder why I installed it - considering I have yet to have an account. Perhaps I want to see the icon it uses?
*polite cough*
Linux users don't deserve email notifications now do they? Oh, you mean they spend all day compulsively checking? Oh well, you are excused.
I would have thought they would write this for the platform they are using initially, but I guess they wrote it for the majority of their user base.
Not much to write one that works over http though.
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They say they are working on it.
The truth doesn't care what I think.
When is (if at all) Gmail going to be released to the public for anyone to sign up?
I use konfabulator widgets.
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Another TSR. What's one more when you have 30 I guess...
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It provides mail notification, handy browsing from the tray, handy access to search, the mailto assocation feature (and automatically backs up the old settings so it can roll back), shortcut creation, and a few more features. Has everything I need.
The multithreaded SMTP Uploader/Mail importer tool is almost done as well.
Seems Google is trying to steal the thunder from the independant utilities, which at this point, are all far superior (GSuite, Gtray, etc)
When you run the installer on a Windows 98 PC, it pops up a message that reads: Gmail Notifier requires Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or newer.
I guess I won't be using this on my work box...
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Ok, so I started with this huge happy giggle when I saw this... exactly what I've been waiting for to fully switch to gmail. I love Gmail, but currently stick to Yahoo since Y!IM will let me know when I have new mail, and that's a feature I desperately need. I considered some of the third-party equivalants, like Pop Goes the Gmail, but they rely on hacking through the website and all it takes is a change from GMail to break them.
But then I noticed that it was for Win2k/XP/2k3 only. WTF? That's great for home, but at work (where I spend most of my time), I'm stuck on Windows ME!! So now this sucks as much as it rocks. I'm sad.
Personally, I wish Google had taken my suggestion to heart: password-protected RSS feeds of your email subjects. Then anybody could write a 3rd party notifier.
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-Marilyn Manson
Now Google has always been a multi-platform and anti-windows/msft player... So i'd expect an OSX/Linux version first... Luckly, some David Estes have published a Konfabulator widged that does just the same, and works pretty well.
I've been enjoying both of those key functionalities on every platform I use, by way of two excellent firefox extensions: Gmail Notifier and Gmail Compose.
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That's it. My 5 invites were sucked up within 3 minutes. Thanks!
KDE/GNOME?
I've heard of this before - also called 1. login to GMail site with web browser of choice (I use FireFox), 2. minimize browser window.
For those of you using GMail already, you know that it automatically refreshed itself and diplays the number of unread emails on your taskbar already.
Anyway, the last thing I want is yet another icon flodding my task bar and consuming system resources. I already use my web browser for that.
Come on Google! Sometimes, too many options and features is too much. Your search engine was successful not only because it is powerful accurate, it's also simple. Your main page isn't littered with links and junk like Yahoo and MSN. Today's phrase of the day: "Simple, yet elegant."
Use it or lose it GOOG.
CPAN has GMail modules!
"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want." - F Scott Fitzgerald
I wonder when google will integrate the notifier into their toolbar.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. --Edmund Burke
Doesn't make much of a difference for use that don't / can't get a gmail address or use WinDoze! heheh B-)
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Maybe I'm missing something here....
I use Firefox as my default browser, and when I first told this new gmail checker to check my email, I was prompted with an Internet Explorer authentication window. Wtf?! Please tell me they're not relying on IE for auth.
The other "hacked together" apps I've used (gtray, etc), have had the option to enter and save the gmail password locally within the app. With this I'm either going to have to enter my user/pass every time it checks my mail, or save my user/pass in IE?
Nice little app aside from that - I really like the way it displays snippets when new mail arrives.
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C'mon guys, I don't see how this is "News for Nerds" OR "Stuff that matters."
Are we starting to treat politicians like E! Hollywood celebrities with our covering of their lives to the most insignificant facts?
Next week:
Maryland senator's lost dog found!
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They've been away from home for too long, defending your liberty and mine; make sure they have plenty of space for e-mail from family
I loaded this thing up- then checked my inbox a couple times, viewed my account, and closed the browser.
According to my proc list, that little tool is using 8-9MB of RAM.
Thunderbird, in contrast, is using 8-9MB, with access to 50MB of mail.
What I'd like to see is a little app to sit in the system tray and let me know when I'll get a GMail account.
When you are logged in, just change the http to https and then you are done. All further traffic will be https.
Problem solved!
That's nice, how about you fix Gmail so that it work with Opera now?
You need 2 accounts for this one to work. Log in both ones, one in FireFox and one in IE.
Make FireFox the default browser. The app ignores that and takes the cookie info from the IE folder.
BUT, when double clicking the damn thing it launches the default web browser, i.e., Firefox. Result -> opens the WRONG account (or better said, checks the wrong default account).
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sure, what the heck... (above username)1 at yahoo.com No spaces or other characters, just my slashdot username above and then the number 1.
You can send one over to linnorm(at)hotmail(dot)com
I have three Google accounts. I have one super-secret account that nobody knows so I can... uh... tell people that I have a super secret account that nobody knows. I have one that's close to my real name, so I can use it for a backup for work. And I have one generic one for normal everyday use and storage.
Unfortunately, now I have three different Gmail accounts to track.
For those of you with two more Gmail accounts who haven't had a chance to try out the Gmail Notifier yet, it doesn't work for multiple accounts. You can have multiple copies running simultaneously, but it will only refer to the first one you signed in as, even though it *will* prompt you for a new username/password on the second copy you run.
If you are monitoring more than one Gmail account, what solution have you come up with?
...not sure how a bunch of people are getting invites, but throw an old dog a bone here. I guess I need to stop talking to people on the phone and start using this [I|i]nternet thing to make friends with real power.
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If you click on a mailto hyperlink, while it brings you to the gmail site and creates the appropriate template, it doesn't log you in automatically (and since the toolbar has your uid and password, it should). Definately want to be able to save local too.
You need 2 accounts for this one to work
Just rub it in our faces that you have two freaking accounts while many of us languish in Gmail-less-ness!
Have ya'll forgotten Gmail is still in beta? I can't give a damn about utilities for a product that 99.99% of the world is not permitted to use.
I guess I don't know the right people.
This entire 5 year beta period and dribbling out invites is a bit maddening (mainly because I won't go begging for an invite, I prefer to just whine about it :-)
Seriously, anyone know how many people have gmail accounts now?
I'll take any spare Gmail invites. send to electronicjason[at]hotmail[dot]com
Looking for a gmail account? Get one at gmailswap.com. Please offer something creative and worthwhile. It's so much more fun that way.
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Wow, if you go by movies, tv, etc, one would think we've had this feature for at least ten years.
suso@suso.org
Thank you very much.
I don't understand why we are jumping through hoops to have auto refresing JavaScript-full convoluted html webmail that interacts with some little utility in your tray. I mean, I understand the convenience of webmail, but I think that installing this is whre I would draw the line between simple & easy and flakey & klunky.
Because it works. I use GMail at home, at work, wherever, and it just works. Works in Mozilla or IE. I didn't have to set up my own IMAP server or anything crazy like that.
Yeah, I could (and do) ssh to my home box and read my POP mail with mutt, but even with GMail's occasional brief outages that has been less reliable than just using GMail. And it wouldn't help me when I'm sitting in a boring training seesion and can't really install Cygwin on the machine ...
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I just fricking hate webmail.
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Are you also sitting on your invites?
If so, would you like to help me get a gmail account? I've been trying for so long!
(brennanm@udel.edu)!
Yes, FIRST POS.. eh REPLY
Just kidding, but an invite would be appreciated
What's so great about GMail? Really, I don't get it. GMail is more hyped than Apple, the former kings of PR and spin.
Worth a shot...
Above username at yahoo dot com...
If it works, I thank you heartily!
ROFL, not only I don't have gmail but I'm also to slow to make first reply ;)... Ow I s*ck
And the FIRST PERSON who gets an email to me (you'll have to figure out how -- look on my home page) will get it.
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thanks (hoping it's not just a troll)
whiplash(at)armory(dot)com
thrymm@yahoo.com Thanks!
I wonder what MTA Google is using for gmail... anyone know?
Just use Gmail Notifier 0.3.3 for Mozilla Firefox.
See also WebMailCompose Makes mailto: links load your webmail's compose page and adds a Compose link to the context menu. Currently supports GMail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Netscape/OperaMail/Mail.com/Ho rde/Squirrel and 1 user customizable entry. (Firefox/Mozilla Suite/Netscape 7.x)
And pagerankstatus
Phillip
Is that some people like being able to use a single email interface whereever they are. Gmail provides this. Using a normal IMAP client would provide extra features such as a tray notifier, but would remove the single-interface advantage. The gmail tray notifier allows users to reclaim this one advantage of fullscale email applications, without having to give up their unified interface. This notifier will not be available everywhere; however this does not matter, since the notifier is tangential and external to the actual mail client (gmail) itself.
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I had Gmail Notifier briefly installed on my XP box at work. It seems that the current version of Notifier will only use the default browser for viewing my inbox and handling the mailto links. The default browser on my box is IE, which is required to run the web app I inherited when I started working here. For anything else, I prefer a tabbed brower and currently use Firefox. Hopefully, Google will add an option to Notifier to allow selecting which browser you wish to use. Until then, I will do without it.
I would like to pop3 my emails.
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Thanks
This is really handy, the main reason I dont use my gmail account more often, is that it cant be checked automaticly with the rest of my email accounts.. this helps some, but the GUI honestly sucks. It really need some more work.
;)
Also, I find it a pain that it cant automaticly check two accounts at the same time, not that anybody has two accounts
jsinnema(at)dds(dot)nl
Thanks in advance.
I have 2 gmail invitations, send me your First, Last Name and the email where you want to receive the invite, this is a limited offer, in a first come first serve basis. email me to: larry2k[NOSPAM]@[NOSPAM]gmail.com remember to remove the [NOSPAM] strings.
The package said "Windows XP or better. Pentium Class Processor or better"... So I got a Mac with OS X
I just don't understand why someone would move 12 years of their life into the data warehouse of someone you don't control.
You're right. Re-read Brad Templeton's privacy concerns over Gmail and the prospect of storing the "12 years of your life into the data warehouse of someone you don't control" becomes rather dubious.
However, from a purely technical standpoint there are some real advantages to chucking your mail archives into Gmail. The search feature is second to none (who even needs labels?), the interface beats any webmail (Squirrelmail? come on!) or IMAP reader hands-down, and the conversations feature is a real bonus (Mark Lyon informs me that GMail automatically makes conversations from the messages as they are uploaded with his Gmail loader).
The bottom line is, I don't know whether to upload all my old mail to Gmail yet, and for me the jury's still out until the geeks and the lawyers agree.
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...how does gmail not provide one interface everywhere? It is a web page.
What you need is an IMAP mail server, and an IMAP webmail client for when you don't have an IMAP software client.
I am trying to discuss the specific case of people who prefer to use the exact same email client on every computer they come into contact with. What you propose is clearly not a solution for these people. Gmail, or ssh (which is what I use) is.
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please send one to dharkaron01@hotmail.com Thanks
This is beta software of something that only runs in the windows. There were already plenty of gmail programs that did this?
Why is this a Slashdot article?
Who cares?
Does this utility check for mail at given intervals, or does it get alerted to new mail whenever it arrives (the promise of IMAP IDLE)?
I hope it's the latter, but I have a feeling it's not smart enough for that.
---- scrm
Dammit! I want a RSS feed of my Gmail inbox. It can't be that hard to have a password protected feed of my inbox.
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I just found this, http://www.gnotify.com/index.asp , and I think its better than the version google has realesed.. you might give it a go :D
bojdom@yahoo.no Thanks!
It's great to see webmail with notification. It's almost like POP. What I want to know is how long until it's actually a sensible alternative to IMAP? ;)
pepsiisthedevil at hotmail.com
Save me from hotmail!
Thanks!
can't get mine to work, but then again I use linux and shouldn't expect anything to work without weeks of reading, troubleshooting, forum trolling and trial and error
From This article (and others), will Google retain the gmail.com domain? Is it even in jeopardy?
I did the mailto: thing first. I even emailed them about it, but I received an email back from a clueless person
MailTo for Gmail
OK, somebody explain to me what the big deal with a GMail account is. As far as I can tell it's just free webmail with 1Gb storage. Yet people are so excited about it. Why?
I mean, free webmail is everywhere. I have untold gigs of storage on my HD and unused old HDs in the closet and I have never come close to more than a meg or so of saved email (if people send me pictures I want to keep, I just detach the file and save it somewhere else).
So am I missing something here?
I can send you an invite for [puts pinky to mouth] one Million Dollars!
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So what's the projected data for Gmail to accessible by the masses?
I am jruderman@gmail.com and I have not had Gmail invites for a month. Any particular reason you're trying to get Slashdot users to spam me?
The shareholder is always right.
please send one to mjgit@hotmail.com
one for me if possible. bill_schmidt(at]mail(dot]com
I should be so lucky to have someone reading all my email and then spamming me with crap theoretically "directed" towards my "interests".
Never mind that I may be bitching about how crappy the AVP movie is, I'll now be bombarded with AVP merchandise ads! Brilliant.
Frankly, I feel pretty lucky that at this point in time, I still have a relatively unfettered email service.
Contrary to popular belief, coding is not all free blow-jobs and beer. Those things cost MONEY!
I still prefer Yahoo's mail tool because it seems to function via server notification rather than polling i.e. when you get an email message on your yahoo account you're notified immediately whereas with the gmail tool you're notified only the next time it checks.
I got my account a few months ago and I have had only one invite to use. I figured I would get more but there was that one only. Are they even issuing invites anymore???
That mailto handler is a pretty cool idea, I don't think I've seen that before. Is there a mailto handler for any other web based email service like Yahoo? That would be handy for my mom, who doesn't understand the whole mailto thing.
On a slightly related/unrelated note, some people here are mentioning webmail to pop conversion programs like yahoo pops and pop goes the gmail. Does anyone know if there's such a program available for everyone.net webmail users?
While Gmail Notifier DOES open a new compose window, be aware that unless you check the "keep me logged in for two weeks" checkbox on the login screen, you will have to log in every time, even if you are already logged into Gmail in another browser window.
While it's a bit cumbersom, at least it's still more secure...
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
I am waiting for eprompter(www.eprompter.com) to add GMail support. That way I get all my Yahoo, hotmail, Gmail and other web based mail accounts monitored by the same app.
The Notifier doesn't come with any options to configure. Yay! Simplicity at last!
Great. Hotmail is gasping now, I get This server is too busy message regularly NOW - I dread to think how often I'll see it when they upgrade the storage. No, thanks MS but no thanks. I'm very happy with my spanky GMail. Sure, I'll keep my Hotmail account, but only as my main "alternate" for commercial email stuff.
http://www.mail2web.com/
This thing is eating 7mb of ram on my system, I am not impressed.
Will this be the next step?
letting-AT-juno-DOT-com
Thanks a lot.
This is a little offtopic, but I have found gmail to be quite unreliable. Most of the messages i send to gmail take between 1 minute to 5 hours before they reach my gmail inbox, as compared to almost no time for other email services. This is y maybe it still in beta. No using gmail till it works well.
...but I still don't have a gmail account and I'm not above trolling for one! =/
cagemonkey@hotmail.com
ninja monkeys are meeting as we speak, plotting my demise
I suppose it makes a lot of sense if the majority of Gmail users don't use Windows but their notifier is being developed on Windows first? Same with their toolbar.
markus at markus dot org
I'd like one too, very much :-)
Markus
I've been trying to get one forever. I doubt anyone will send me one, but my hotmail account can't possibly get any more spam than it does, so I'll try anyway.
jonathanbrown@hotmail.com
I'd greatly appreciate it.
-Jon
This rocks and is everything I wanted in a Gmail notification utility. YES!!! The last huge feature I need in Gmail is being able to choose from a picklist of validated "send from" addresses, like Yahoo Plus allows. But this Tray App is just fantastic!!!!
While I understand Googles desire for an extended beta-test period I find the black market surrounding the invites disgusting.
Markus
If you want a Gmail invite... send me an email... bigwavedave[at]gmail.com
jxs2151 atat hotmail dotdot com
With my bad karma no one is seeing this but here it goes: I have 4 gmail invites for the first four people who ask fo them.
Last time I got modded as a troll for giving out 5 accounts, don't know why.
Cliff
Why the heck does such a little notification app take up 7megs? I'm tired of lazy developers gobling up my system RAM.
I think hotmail ate it. Can you resend it to raxx@netscape.net? Thanks!
That's what I usually do when on a remote computer, but it won't work all the time. A couple of months ago, for example, I was stationed at Ft. Lee (VA) for two weeks, and the security on those computers was completely airtight (menus were disabled, you couldn't download anything, you couldn't browse the hard drive and run programs even with the SaveAs trick). Gmail worked just fine however, as any other webmail would have. It was nice to have that option available, that's all.
I'm trying to hook a few friends up with an account but no one I know has any invites left... if I could get a few people to help me (and them) I'd really appreciate it!
I found out on this site a friend sent me a link to
Imap for Gmail
You misplaced the dot
Imap for Gmail
but it does seem an interesting site.
Anybody else got information on this?
A bit of shameless plugging, but I have saved a collection of links to different Gmail tools from around the Web here.
I prefer the Firefox extensions.
Gmail Notifier:
http://nexgenmedia.net/extensions
Web Mail Compose:
http://jedbrown.net/mozilla
In my opinion, they offer a better solution.
- hawkeye
"...The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders." - Erwin Rommel
Storage isn't everything. After 1G, its really a case of diminishing returns. Ask any user, and what they really care about is usability.
I also know a bit about e-mail checkers and what GMail is doing. I work at Serence, a company that makes KlipFolio, a windows tool that watches multiple remote sites for changes to save you effort.
We just released a Hotmail Klip that monitors your Hotmail inbox for new messages, shows you the messages in concise list, and gives you a preview on mouse over. Screen shots are here.
Our plan is to do a GMail Klip next. It took us quite a while to figure out Hotmail's use of WebDav and how to authenticate against Microsoft Passport. Hopefully, GMail offers an easier API than HotMail.
It's really in the interest of these companies to make their product easy for users (again: usability), and very easy for third-party vendors to add value to it.
Cheers,... Fred
Life is NP-Complete
Could I have an invite... please?
samwwwh@yahoo.com
It goes in the menubar, and it's called Gmail Status. It's not perfect, but it does a fine job and doesn't require any open web browsers or whatnot.
If you get nervous, just remember that there are a few billion other people who don't really give a damn.
Send an email to yellow.4.gmailinvites@spamgourmet.com.
First come, first serve.
I guess hotmail ate mine too... could resend it to amannaerts (at) planet (dot) nl? Thanks
I've written a is a systray applet
nothing at all. It is my default browser and the only one I have used GMail with. No reason to use IE at all, as far as GMail is concerned.
The truth doesn't care what I think.
this may not be new, but I've never seen it before: http://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_suggest/
The truth doesn't care what I think.
drop me a line at my gmail account. My gmail id is soumenb .