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I’ve been using Gmail a lot more lately testing our integration with Gmail and figuring out if I could live without Apple’s Mail.app. There are a number of good reasons for ditching a desktop application for Gmail – mobile email, one online location for all my email, and a great interface to name a few.

Some folks live and die by their inbox and not knowing if that ever important email from the boss or a new client is waiting for you is a deal killer for most web mail. Sure, hitting refresh is easy, but it’s not quite like using Outlook. For me, as handy as getting Gmail on my mobile would be in a pinch, ultimately, I’m reading and responding to email at my desk.

Enter Google Notifier

Google Notifier is an app that sits in your system tray in Windows or in the menu bar on a Mac that alerts you of new mail in your inbox, upcoming calendar events and even lets you add events quickly to your Google Calendar.

Google Notifier can change all “mailto:” links (links to email addresses) in web pages to use Gmail as its default email application and making it easier to use Gmail as your main email application day to day.

The latest version for Mac OS X, adds a contextual menu to add events for Google Calendar direct from any application and a method for setting Gmail to alert you only when certain messages arrive. Cool tool, indeed.

Google Notifier is still in beta (naturally), but like most of Google’s apps, this beta seems to be fairly rock solid.

Download Google Notifier

This entry was posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2007 at 2:43 pm and is filed under Email, Email Tips, Gmail, Help. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.