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/Mac 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

Google Toolbar with Gmail search - Official IE toolbar featuring one-click Gmail search

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.

G2G Share - Service that indexes the files in your Gmail account and makes them available for public sharing

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)

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