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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. Open source it by Pastis · · Score: 0, Troll

    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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  2. "Lucky enough to have one"? by TheAwfulTruth · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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