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Gmelius Makes Gmail's User Interface Awesome and Ad-Free

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 17:00

Gmail is Google's golden child, but it isn't perfect. It's full of numerous user interface elements you don't necessarily want or need and there's no way to turn them off. Gmelius offers you a way out of ads, the people bar, and more while also making Gmail easier to navigate. It's a great extension, it's free, and can dramatically improve your experience in less than a minute. More »

 

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Gmail gets a new logo, slimmer homepage

Submitted by admin on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 06:23

 

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Google Mail Checker Plus extension for Google Chrome adds desktop notifications

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 16:30

 

If you don't need notifications for every Google services under the sun (as provided by ) and you're just looking for a solid GMail notifier for Google Chrome, have a look at the .

I haven't encountered many Chrome extensions which utilize the desktop notification functionality, but what better place to put it to good use than a mail checker? Install GMC+, wait patiently for new messages to arrive, and you'll get slide-up notifications whenever a new message arrives in your inbox.

GMC+ also includes a long list of customizations via its options menu including audio alerts, ten different icon sets, and more languages than you can shake a stick at. Google apps accounts are also supported.

It's well worth adding to your Google Chrome install if you're a GMail user.

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MailBrowser for Gmail plugin is interesting, but needs work

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 15:12

 

MailBrowser for GmailMailBrowser is a new Gmail 3rd-party browser plugin that sits in the sidebar, giving you more information about your Gmail contacts. The plugin works by downloading a complete local copy of your email archive from Gmail over IMAP, then cross-referencing it to your Google Contacts in your Google account. I should state up front that the MailBrowser plugin is in beta, and likely to change.

MailBrowser for Gmail presents useful information about the contact you are viewing like a list of your last conversations with them, trending information about your communications with the contact, and fields so that you can add tags and notes to the contact in a very similar fashion to Xobni. It also attempts to look up the domain name of the contact and from there grabs information from the domain's website, which often turn out to be meta tags that are not all that useful. It would be nice if MailBrowser allowed you to choose the order it shows this information, or to hide sections entirely, because the most important information is hidden down at the bottom.

Beware: because (as mentioned above) MailBrowser works by downloading a copy of all of your emails, it will use up a significant amount of disk space. 

It will probably take the plugin a few hours or even days to index your entire account, depending on how much email you have.

 

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