Google Releases Gmail Notifier
Bad news for Elias Torrez and Gtray, but Google quietly released its Gmail Notifier, an application for Windows that sits in your system tray and lets you know when you have new Gmail. It even replaces Gmailto, which makes Gmail your primary mail app and lets you use it when you click on email addresses in your internet browser. The screenshot shows it in action, and it has that quirky Google sense of humor. Looks like Google's getting Gmail ready for prime time.
There's also a FAQ, which says Gmail Notifier can:

• automatically check for new messages every two minutes


• see a snippet of text from up to 30 unread messages


• select a sound to indicate when you have new mail


• make Gmail your default email application

Here are all the funny Google icons for Gmail Notifier:
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(via Boing Boing)
- posted by Nathan Weinberg @ 8/20/2004 09:58:00 AM