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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."
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.
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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From the FAQ: To use the Gmail Notifier, you need Windows 2000, Windows XP, or a more recent version of Windows. The Notifier is not compatible with Macintosh or Linux systems at this time, but we look forward to offering support for more operating systems in the future.
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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
Mac users have this http://homepage.mac.com/carsten.guenther/GmailStat us/ as a freeware option.
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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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What about the gmail notifier Firefox extension?
There is already a Mozilla (and Firefox) extension for this, GMail Notifier (homepage http://www.nexgenmedia.net/extensions/). It works with both the Linux and windows versions of the browser.
In the increasingly useful gdesklets framewrok:e gories.php?f unc=gd_show_app&gd_app_id=171
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/cat
I've been using gmail for a few months now, and as of this writing, I've gotten 1 piece of spam delievered to that mail box.
Maybe no one knows about it.
This was covered recently here on Slashdot. Google does keep stats, but they're not for any real analysis. That doesn't stop people from trying to use them for real analysis.
I'm betting that a large percentage of people that use Gmail are using Windows. Everyone I know that has an account - including nearly two hundred people at my friend's company - is on a Windows box.
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.
They say they are working on it.
The truth doesn't care what I think.
Well... I *never* saw gmail going down. The worst that I saw was a weird error on logout that lasted for a day but that didn't caused problem to use my account.
They are working on it and meanwhile, why don't you save your mails on text files on your computer ?
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I've had Gmail since May, and haven't received one spam yet...
'I don't want more choices. I just want better things.' - Edina Monsoon
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!
CPAN has GMail modules!
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You can indeed put a Java app in the Windows system tray. The same code will also put it in the Gnome system tray in Linux for example - all part of the Java Desktop open source tools at;
http://community.java.net/javadesktop/
Hey, THANK YOU. This works great, one little problem, your link goes to an old version. Here http://nexgenmedia.net/extensions/ is the developers page for the latest version. The version you link to has issues but once I updated it works perfectly.
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?
You know ... I thought this very same thing. Then one day I clicked my spam folder and there was a whole pile of them in there.
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Have a look, you may not be as anonymous as you think
Dude, give them to the military.
http://www.gmail4troops.com/
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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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Have you tried PuTTY? Whenever I happen to find myself on Windows and need to ssh, that's the first (and usually only) thing I think of. Just Feel Lucky for putty at google and it'll take you right there. And the best thing about PuTTY is that it doesn't require any sort of install -- just download and run. I've yet to find a simpler and more feature complete SSH client for Windows.
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Applets and Notification Area.
Applets are added into your panels. An applet you can add to your panels is the Notification Area, where the Bluetooth and Rhythmbox notification icons are located.
Notification area is explicitly for notification-type things, not applets, although people seem tempted to do this.
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Another incompatible instant messaging system? Ick. I'd much prefer people just started using Jabber instead.
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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?
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>> or gmail NEVER goes down, it just won't cut it.
/bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
beta
1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in': `in beta'. In the Real World, systems (hardware or software) software often go through two stages of release testing: Alpha (in-house) and Beta (out-house?). Beta releases are generally made to a group of lucky (or unlucky) trusted customers.
2. Anything that is new and experimental. "His girlfriend is in beta" means that he is still testing for compatibility and reserving judgment.
3. Flaky; dubious; suspect (since beta software is notoriously buggy).
PuTTY. No need to install cygwin for SSH. And since you just download the executable and run it, no install needed, only the most locked down machines will prevent its use.
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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...
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Well there is 2-3 things that make gmail very superior.
The UI is just AWESOME, its so easy to use, very dynamic. You dont have to click refresh to see your new email, the screen update. When you compose, you start to type a name. a Box (not a drop box) appear with all the suggestion that begin with that letter from your address book.
The Thread function is awesome, when you in a conversation with the same topic. All you see in your inbox is 1 line xxxx to yyyyy (52) "Hey fromy our last email.."
Basically thats tell you there is 52 email in the thread and you see the last message. When you click on it. it open every reply are "hidden in kind of table" except the messages you didnt read yet. It make it easy to follow your conversations. My friends and me use that and we have like 12-14 peoples replying. So its easy to use.
When you reply you automaically get up the message with a option to reply or reply all (no screen update or change or anything its direct).
The 1 Gigs is just fantastic. I have the conversations for the last month. You can just archive them to do Search. There is filter and label function to automatically filter your email.
There is starred option too if you think a conversation is important, you can see all your important message in a different section.
With the new notifier, its kinda better than any email system around.
It has nothing to do with a webmail, its way superior.
The Notifier doesn't come with any options to configure. Yay! Simplicity at last!
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- make a contact that has the name 'save' with the email address USERNAME+save@gmail.com
- make a lable called 'save'
- create a filter that auto-archives and lable's the messages from USERNAME+save@gmail.com.
Since the messages get auto archived, they skip your inbox. If you want to recall drafts just click on the 'save' lable.Now, inorder to save a draft, just type 'save' into the "TO" field and send the message.
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This is a nice to that makes a "Compose GMail" option when you click a mailto: link.
This is the GMail Notifier that I think the parent was referring to. It displays the simple text "Gmail" at the bottom right of the browser window by the down button on the scroll bar. Hovering over it displays the number of unread emails, single clicking it opens gmail in a new tab, and double clicking lets you add, change, ir remove gmail login info. You should know that Google has blocked this program at least twice before so don't be alarmed if it stops working, just keep an eye on the webpage for a newer version.
Also, another neat google plugin displays a thumbnail to the left of many search results. It too displays the simple text "GP" near the bottom right scroll button. Single click it to turn it on and off again.
If you still have that invite, I could use one. My friend just finished his tour of duty in the air force and a bit jealous that I have a gmail account and he doesn't.