Tag: NOTIFIER

Scott's Gmail Alert (SGA) has been a great desktop notifier for a long time. In the just-released version 5, however, SGA has added a handful of new features which make it even better than its predecessors. SGA 5 can also notify you of upcoming events from a Google Calendar (even password-protected ones), changes in your local weather forecast, and new messages sent to you via Google Talk. As ...

I wrote about Scott's GMail Alert last year. It's a terrific desktop notifier with support for multiple GMail accounts (including GoogleMail and Google Apps), Google Calendar, and RSS feeds. Version 4.0 is now out, and Scott's app is better than ever. As you can see in the screenshot, Aero transparency is now supported. You can also now change the location where your alerts appear and choose ...

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

A little while back, the Pingdom crew released a handy iPhone app which enables on-the-go monitoring of your website through their service. Now they've added a desktop application to the mix - perfect for those times when you're relaxing comfortably at your workspace. The notifier runs on Windows XP, Vista, and 7, and it's dead simple to set up and use. Install it, enter your credentials, and ...

That was fast! Google Wave's barely been available for a week, and there's already a Google Wave Notifier extension for Firefox. The notifier sits in your status bar and shows the number of waves with unread messages in your inbox (not the total number of unread messages, mind you). It's small, unobtrusive, and checks for messages at an adjustable interval. Of course, you can also manually ...

So you've switched to GMail but pine for the days of yore when that snooty butler hand delivered your new Incredimail messages to you? Well, you're in luck! Among the dozens of options available for GMail inbox alerts is b2 Notifier. Think of it as a combination of one part something Download Squad readers love (GMail) and two parts things they hate with a passion (Adobe Air and Incredimail). ...

Plenty of apps will give you a simple tap on the shoulder when new mail arrives arrives in your GMail inbox. There's GMail Assistant, GMail Notifier, GMail Notifier Plus, and of course Google offers their own app. Today's entrant into the battle for GMail notification supremacy -- Scott's Gmail Alert -- has a lot going for it. Way more than just the fact that it doesn't use the word notifier in ...

Sometimes it seems that we're so plugged in to Twitter here @downloadsquad -- rather, at Download Squad -- that we don't even know FriendFeed exists. Not true! In fact, I noticed that FriendFeed just released an official desktop notifier, built on Adobe AIR. It's pretty rough so far, but a lot of users are commenting with feature requests and improvements. The main issue people have with the ...

Just a week after Digsby widened its private beta by giving away 5,000 invites to Download Squad readers, the development team has already issued 4 new builds of the chat, email, and social networking client. Probably the most significant new feature is support for proxy settings to help users get around corporate firewalls. There are a ton of other bug fixes and minor new features as well, ...

E-mail notifiers are great if you're the sort of person who doesn't like to keep a lot of unread messages in your inbox. But unless you only subscribe to a handful of RSS feeds, we're not convinced that an RSS notifier is anywhere near as useful. That's because we've never met anybody who manages to actually keep up with their RSS feeds. And what use is a notifier that constantly reminds you that ...

I don't know about you, but I have quite a few Firefox extensions. Every once in a while I would have to go into the add-on menu and hit that update button and then restart Firefox if there were any new updates. This "every once in a while" was not a routine check. I really just did it when I installed a new extension. Leaving me blind to any possible updates that could make my extensions run ...

Google has always been a little slow at developing its applications for Mac users. Google Calendar and Gmail Notifier for the Mac platform have always had performance issues, especially in Safari. But not anymore. The Google Blog has just informed us that the Mac Team has been working on creating better user experiences for Mac users, and have just released better Safari support for Google ...

Looks like there could be a little buggy hanging out in Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. IE issues some kind of warning when another application tries to change the default search engine settings, and Google Toolbar Notifier looks to be the culprit. Apparently, this little application runs even when it has been disabled or shutoff says Ionut Alex. Google is busy working on a fix for this ...