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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. How long.... by avalys · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How long until someone reverse-engineers this API and makes an OS X and Linux client available?

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  2. So when do we get Gmessenger? by silverbyte · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

  3. This is awesome! This sucks! by Randolpho · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  4. Re:new mail notification sound by Solder+Fumes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can anyone explain to me what the point is of moving all your personal email into someone else's free service? I could have gotten a Gmail account by now, but I don't need it. Domain names are cheap, web hosting+email is cheap, hard disk space is cheap, my email archives are irreplacable. I have my own email domain, and I can store hundreds of gigs of email if I really have to. If I need to get to my archives from somewhere else, I can always SSH into my network. Maybe Google lets you search easily, but all you really need is a better indexer for your local email archives. I just don't understand why someone would move 12 years of their life into the data warehouse of someone you don't control. Their handling of their stock offering certainly doesn't inspire confidence. Maybe Google really messes up and they get shut down tomorrow. You never know.