Google Releases Gmail Notifier 445
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."
new mail notification sound (Score:5, Informative)
And it's been mentioned before, but I still think the Gmail Loader [marklyon.org] 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 (Score:5, Informative)
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
Re:How long.... (Score:2, Informative)
FireFox extension (Score:5, Informative)
For those interested, the Firefox extension can be found here:
Gmail Notifier [nexgenmedia.net]
For Mac users (Score:5, Informative)
Gmail Notifier (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How long.... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:FireFox extension (Score:4, Informative)
In addition to this, add on WebmailCompose [jedbrown.net] (previously GmailCompose [jedbrown.net]) and you've got pretty much the full functionality of this gmail toolbar, plus it's cross-platform, for those of you who use several platforms and want a more unified computing experience.
For the record, i've been terribly happy with this combination for a while. Together with the great featureset of Gmail, it makes Webmail actually pleasant to use!
Re:How long.... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Where is the notifier for (Score:4, Informative)
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/cat
Re:Wow... Breakthrough (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe no one knows about it.
Re:percentage (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:new mail notification sound (Score:4, Informative)
But ya, it does kind of suck. But when I imported my stuff, I'm just importing old mail and I really don't care what the date is (for searching or not) - because if I want to refer to any of it, I'll just be searching by it's content.
Doesn't work with NT4 (Score:3, Informative)
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 [torrez.us] works fine for me.
save a draft (Score:4, Informative)
Re:new mail notification sound (Score:3, Informative)
Re:this is awesome (Score:2, Informative)
They are working on it and meanwhile, why don't you save your mails on text files on your computer ?
Re:Wow... Breakthrough (Score:2, Informative)
Available wherever Firefox is (Score:3, Informative)
I'm All Out :( Sorry (Score:3, Informative)
Perl fans... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Why not a small Java app? (Score:5, Informative)
http://community.java.net/javadesktop/
Re:How long.... (Score:4, Informative)
FYI: multiple copies don't work. (Score:2, Informative)
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?
Re:For Mac users (Score:3, Informative)
Both GmailStatus and GCount use the in-development Mac OS X Growl framework [growl.info] for cute little pop-up notifiers.
If you (understandably) don't want to compile Growl, here's a compiled version. [peerlounge.com]
~jeff
Re:save a draft (Score:3, Informative)
Features and more
What's on your webmail wish list? (1,000 MB? Check.)
Re:Wow... Breakthrough (Score:3, Informative)
Have a look, you may not be as anonymous as you think
Re:new mail notification sound (Score:4, Informative)
Gmail->Search Options:
Date within: [1d, 3d, 1w, 2w, 1mo, 2mo, 6mo, 1y] of [e.g. today, Friday, Mar 26 or 3/26/2004].
Doing this within 3d of 12/5/02 turned up fourteen messages that were sent in that range. Which is about accurate. Now, I'm not going to go through four years of email to see if that got them all, but I can nail a date down that small, I'll remember another characteristic of the message to search on, rather than the date.
The whole point of gmail's design (i.e. no folders, only labels) is that you filter/label mail, which I did as I migrated all my mail. I have email from eight classes segregated, and it broke the messages into conversations properly, rather than each separate message displayed on it's own line.
Google has designed gmail better than I thought it could be done. There are some features there (undoubtedly more undocumented) that I would never have thought of including. For instance the date range search!
The fact that it dispalys all my migrated mail as received july 27 is odd considering what I just said, but all that mail is archived and there only for me to dig back for something specific.
Oh, and the spam filtering is aggressive (almost too much so), which I think is great, compared to missing every few spams and dropping them to the inbox.
Re:new mail notification sound (Score:4, Informative)
I'm wrong, it does not hit migrated mail dates properly when searching on date. I mistyped my date and only glanced down at what looked like was correct. Upon fixing it, gmail does not search this way.
Re:Swamped by GMail invites ? (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.gmail4troops.com/ [gmail4troops.com]
Privacy vs. tech (Score:3, Informative)
You're right. Re-read Brad Templeton's privacy concerns over Gmail [templetons.com] 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 [squirrelmail.org]? come on!) or IMAP reader hands-down, and the conversations feature is a real bonus (Mark Lyon [marklyon.org] informs me that GMail automatically makes conversations from the messages as they are uploaded with his Gmail loader [marklyon.org]).
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.
Re:Maybe it's me, maybe it's not (Score:2, Informative)
Re:No point? (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:So when do we get Gmessenger? (Score:3, Informative)
That's my address and I have no invites (Score:3, Informative)
Re:this is awesome (Score:3, Informative)
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).
Re:Because it works (Score:3, Informative)
About the "mailto:" mail handler... (Score:3, Informative)
While it's a bit cumbersom, at least it's still more secure...
Re:I don't get it (Score:2, Informative)
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.
No options, yay! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:this is awesome (Score:2, Informative)
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Now, inorder to save a draft, just type 'save' into the "TO" field and send the message.
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Re:this is awesome (Score:3, Informative)
This [nexgenmedia.net] 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 [ackroyd.de] 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.