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September 01, 2005
Google's Gmail Notifier
Google has finally come out with a Gmail Notifier for MacOS X, written by software engineer Greg Miller in his 20%. (All Googlefolk are expected to spend 20% of their work time on a project of personal interest).
Not that this niche hasn’t been addressed by the Mac community - most notably GmailStatus - but Gmail Notifier includes some spiff features, such as showing header excerpts of unread messages, allowing you to directly view only your unread messages, and the ability to make Gmail your default mail program. I’ll miss GmailStatus’ support for Growl, but Gmail Notifier has already taken over.
Also, a little side note. The new Google Desktop for Windows has a nice feature - not only does it index your desktop (and Outlook while it’s open), but it also indexes your Gmail account and makes that available. No Gmail importer for Spotlight on MacOS X 10.4 - so I went ahead and added a Gmail account to Mail.app, with a ruleset that marks any new Gmail messages as read it into a Gmail Archive folder. Voila - my Gmail messages are being archived by Spotlight.
Posted by jim at September 1, 2005 02:31 PM