GMail Notifier Enhanced
Google enhanced their GMail Notifier client some days back. Unfortunately, the client did not auto-upgrade as I had originally expected it to. So, I installed the new version manually. It is a minor update with few feature enhancements, thus a minor update in the version number with no media frenzy.
The icons are changed from Google circles to GMail logo with color change reporting about a new mail message. The installer gives an added option to the user to make GMail the default mail application on the system. Thus any mailto: link is now associated with GMail and user can now actually use GMail as a Mail application rather than just webmail. Interestingly Yahoo! Mail also provides a similar application to use Yahoo! Mail as system’s default mail client.
Perhaps the best thing in this update is the new options popup. It let the user to pick the browser to be used for GMail. This helps when you want to use GMail in a browser other than the system’s default. Opera users (like me!) would like this as GMail still has some issues in Opera browser. Now double clicking on the system tray icon and all the notifications use the specified browser instead of the system’s default browser. The settings for using GMail as system’s default mail application can also be accessed from here.
Download: Gmail Notifier
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October 7th, 2004 at 07:01 pm
My Gmail notifier updated automatically.
J-R
October 8th, 2004 at 03:57 pm
Isn’t it funny how yahoo copies anything gmail does? From size to the text box with the address in compose mail. I can’t wait until they copy the forwarding feature so that I can forward all my yahoo mail to gmail.
October 8th, 2004 at 04:03 pm
Yahoo already has forwarding if you pay them. Gmail would have this as a paid option as well. :)
And from where I look at it, GMail is copying stuff from Opera M2!
January 30th, 2005 at 04:31 am
Mac version….. :(
February 24th, 2005 at 12:57 am
An official Google version for Macs would be spiffy. Especially one that could subvert mailto!
March 1st, 2005 at 09:42 pm
When are they going to allow you to select a sound file to notify you of a new message???
March 20th, 2005 at 12:57 am
you can change the sound by going to sounds ns and then find the sounds tab nd new mail notification and select sound file that is a wma