Windows 7 only: Gmail Notifier Plus displays your unread email count right in the Windows 7 taskbar, including popup message previews and Jump Lists integration. Once you've launched the application, ...

Linux: Ubuntu 9.04's Growl-like, transparent notifications are slick and convenient for corner-of-your-view updates. Gmail Notifier takes full advantage of the latest Ubuntu improvements to provide ...

Gmail Notifier Pro offers an easy way to get updates on many of the services you use, but don’t expect it to shine as an email client. Based on its name alone, you might think Gmail Notifier Pro is ...

Google has been cleaning house of services and features over the last year or so, with Google Reader and iGoogle among the most notable casualties. While not so widely mourned, the recent scrapping of ...

So, there are already a thousand applications out there which notify you of a new email on your GMail account… but may be like me you too avoided all of them for fear of them getting redundant with ...

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