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Google Releases Gmail Notifier

Posted by michael on from the service-with-a-smile dept.

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."

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  1. GTRAY by Yo+Grark · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

    Yo Grark

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  2. FireFox extension by GizmoToy · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. For Mac users by jdwest · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mac users have this http://homepage.mac.com/carsten.guenther/GmailStat us/ as a freeware option.

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  4. Gmail Notifier by Stypen · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  5. Re:Why not a small Java app? by bygimis · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/