New Mail Notification
Mozilla Extension Gmail Notifier
Technically, this will work on any platform that can run Mozilla-based browsers, but I’ll put Doron Rosenberg’s Gmail Notifier browser extension here. Although it doesn’t provide the same level of interface as a taskbar-based application, for people who spend a lot of time in their web browser, the Mozilla extension is very convenient.
You can find the extension at http://nexgenmedia.net/extensions/.
Mac OS X
OS X users have a choice of two applications, both very similar to each other, and doing pretty much the same thing: placing the mail notification in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
GmailStatus
Carsten Guenther’s GmailStatus (http://homepage.mac.com/carsten. guenther/GmailStatus/) is a good example. It displays new mail counts for the Inbox, and each individual label you might have set up, adds a hotkey to launch Gmail in your browser, supports Growl notifications (see http://growl.info/ for more on that), and gives a hotkey to write a new message in Gmail.
Technically, this will work on any platform that can run Mozilla-based browsers, but I’ll put Doron Rosenberg’s Gmail Notifier browser extension here. Although it doesn’t provide the same level of interface as a taskbar-based application, for people who spend a lot of time in their web browser, the Mozilla extension is very convenient.
You can find the extension at http://nexgenmedia.net/extensions/.
Mac OS X
OS X users have a choice of two applications, both very similar to each other, and doing pretty much the same thing: placing the mail notification in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
GmailStatus
Carsten Guenther’s GmailStatus (http://homepage.mac.com/carsten. guenther/GmailStatus/) is a good example. It displays new mail counts for the Inbox, and each individual label you might have set up, adds a hotkey to launch Gmail in your browser, supports Growl notifications (see http://growl.info/ for more on that), and gives a hotkey to write a new message in Gmail.
