Gmail Notifiers

This talk on Gmail podcast was about some of the features that help you to get notified about a new email without having the gmail browser window open.

Web mail is an easily accessible feature from any computer, and we don’t need to install and maintain software, but the problem is we have to keep a browser window open to know that we have an email. The solution is that we can install small application on machine that monitors Gmail account and pops up an alert when we get a message.

Two types of Gmail Notifiers are available for Windows and Mac from Google. Third type of notifier called Notify for the Mac is available on Vibealicious

The first one provided by Google is quite basic. It supports Windows and Mac, shows up on system tray or menu bar, monitors your Gmail account and pops up when we get a message. It’s simple to download, install, and be up and running to monitor our Gmail account.

Notify from Vibealicious is much advance and helpful when we have more than one Gmail account and choose not to use the multiple account feature on the server to send and receive all email at one place. Notify allows us to monitor multiple Gmail accounts at once. It’s only available for Mac. It sits in the menu bar with a little icon and number of unread messages. By clicking it we can get a full interface. Notify is free.

Gmail Notifier from http://gmailnotifier.com supports both Windows and Mac. It is Similar to Notify from Vibealicious and supports multiple accounts. It runs in the system tray or Mac menu bar like Google’s tool. When clicked it pops up as an index of all Gmail accounts and shows unread messages of each. It has simple controls to manage the message index and select messages for deletion, mark them as read, etc. It even supports Google Calendar alerts. It’s also free.