gmail-tools-plugins

Gmail Tools & Plugins

Plugins and tools to make Gmail easier to use are starting to pop up on the web, here are the ones I've found so far:

• Official Gmail Notifier from Google (beta) - Downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages.
• GMNotifier - More configurable notifier based on .NET (Via here)
• GTray - Another configurable Windows notifier includes XP welcome screen integration
• Gmail Search Extension - Search your Gmail account from the Firefox search bar
• Gmail Tray - A search box for the Windows taskbar
• Gmail Notifier - Firefox extension, installs an icon on your toolbar that displays the amount of new messages in your inbox (previous post)
• Gmail-to - Associate all mailto: links with Gmail as opposed to Outlook
• Gmail-to Bookmarklet - Compose messages from your Gmail account from any page (previous post)
• Gmailit - Bookmarklet to send the current page you're viewing to someone through Gmail
• GMail Loader (GML) - Cross platform application forwards your existing email to Gmail
• Gmail Address Book Exporter - Requires Java (via here)
• Pop Goes the GMail - Gmail > POP3 converter (obsolete)
• gExodus - Graphical user interface tool allows you to import your emails into your Gmail account.
• gCount - a menu bar item for Mac OS X 10.3 or later that displays the number of unread messages in the inbox (Via Google Blogoscoped)
• GMail, RSS Feeds - .php script to retrieve notifications of new mail through RSS
• Adding Gmail Inbox to your News Reader - Receive new emails in your RSS reader with the Atom feed (Caution: this is not very secure)
• Gmail as online backup system - .php script to back up files to Gmail and retrieve them
• GFile - Easily installed front end script for 'Gmail as online backup system' (Recommended by Evan White)
• Gmail in Opera - Use Gmail with the Opera browser, which currently is unsupported (Opera is now supported with the basic HTML view option)
• PINE Addressbook to Gmail - Export addressbook in CSV format from PINE to Gmail. Via here
• GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem - GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. (Via Scripting.com)
• GMail Drive Shell Extension - Enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer.
• GSuite - Lets you access and use Gmail from a mini-browser in the system tray
• GmailStatus - Shows the number of unread messages in the Mac OSX menubar
• gmail copy - Command line utility to copy files to and from gmail (Via del.icio.us)
• GMailer (libgmailer) - A PHP library/class that helps you accessing/checking/using GMail through PHP scripts. (A blog that uses this to convert Gmail messages into the blog posts)
• Goollery - Uses libgmailer to make a photo gallery from a Gmail account: example (Via AimlessWords.com)
• Gmail icon generator - Create an image of your Gmail address to minimize spam exposure (Via here)
• [PHP] Gmail Invite Sig - Displays your currently remaining Gmail invites in a PNG image (Via ResearchBuzz.org)
• Gmail Image Viewer (beta) - IE addon that displays image attachments inline
• Gmail Agent API - Open Source extensible foundation for interfacing with Gmail. Written for .NET framework
• GMail API for Java - Allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail (Via comments)
• You've Got Gmail - Gmail Notifier for Trillian Messenger Pro (Via Metafilter.com)
• Gmail IM Logger for Trillian Pro - Log Trillian IM Conversations to Gmail
• Gmail-Mobile - Use Gmail from a WAP enabled device with .php (Via here)
• Gmail Gems - Tips and Tricks to use Gmail more efficiently
• Picasa integration - use Picasa to easily attach and send photos from your Gmail account
• Larry's Gmail Indexer - Plugin to index your GMail messages in Google Desktop Search
• Use Gmail in the Google Deskbar mini-browser
• Gmail as a journal - use Gmail as a repository of personal information categorized by Gmail labels
• Save searches in Gmail - Firefox only, requires the Greasemonkey extension
• Skin Gmail - Use a custom stylesheet in Firefox to skin Gmail (Via Furl)
• Disable Gmail Ads (Firefox) - Use custom css to remove Gmail ads in Firefox (Via A Welsh View)
• Using Gmail as a Spam Filter - (Via iBLOGthere4iM)
• Unread Gmail - Create a label called "Unread", Gmail will automatically add all unread items to it (Via Gmail Wiki)

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