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dragonlady7OK, the Gmail notifier I've been smugly lording it over everyone with while I was alpha testing is now ready for its beta release. It is seriously the coolest thing since, well, Gmail. It is extremely thoroughly software-engineered, and is guaranteed to be way, way better than anything previously available for OS X.
Dave's Gmail Notifier.
It should run on any Macintosh computer running 10.3 (Panther) or higher.
The website's a bit sparse, but will eventually have a whole variety of information on configuring the program as well as screenshots and such, and also a listing of all the other OS X Gmail notifiers so you can see just how cool this one is. In the meantime, the program itself is pretty damn cool.
Instructions:
Download the Gmail Notifier from the link provided on the page above.
Drag it into your Applications folder (optional; put it in any folder you like).
Double-click it.
Click and hold (or right click, or control click) the icon in the dock. The menu will pop up. Select "Preferences". Adjust the preferences to suit you.
(A hint: In your web browser of choice, go into its Preferences menu and decide how you want it to open links from other applications. In Safari it's under "general" and I've found it so much better to have "in a new tab in the current window" checked, because I hate new windows opening all the time. Do as you see fit.)
Let us know if there's any problem. So far, I haven't been able to find anything wrong with it. Sometimes it takes it a little while to remember to check for mail after the computer wakes from sleep; so far that's all I can find.
It won't crash your system or do anything like that-- Dave's been programming on OS X long enough (four years?) to know better than that. It should be perfectly stable and indeed, should be the awesomest program on your computer.
And, if you go into Preferences in Apple Mail (I know, it's retarded that there isn't any other control panel for this) and specify (under General) Gmail Notifier as your default mail program, any mailto: link you click in a webpage will automatically open up a new message in Gmail with the link's to: address as its recipient. Which is a-pretty-pretty cool.
(The website will have all this information and these instructions on it. He just sorta thought it was dumb to hold up the beta release just so he could put up a website with information I could just as easily tell you. Since the first beta testers are probably going to have half a clue on their own anyway. Y'all are smart people.)
Dave's Gmail Notifier.
It should run on any Macintosh computer running 10.3 (Panther) or higher.
The website's a bit sparse, but will eventually have a whole variety of information on configuring the program as well as screenshots and such, and also a listing of all the other OS X Gmail notifiers so you can see just how cool this one is. In the meantime, the program itself is pretty damn cool.
Instructions:
Download the Gmail Notifier from the link provided on the page above.
Drag it into your Applications folder (optional; put it in any folder you like).
Double-click it.
Click and hold (or right click, or control click) the icon in the dock. The menu will pop up. Select "Preferences". Adjust the preferences to suit you.
(A hint: In your web browser of choice, go into its Preferences menu and decide how you want it to open links from other applications. In Safari it's under "general" and I've found it so much better to have "in a new tab in the current window" checked, because I hate new windows opening all the time. Do as you see fit.)
Let us know if there's any problem. So far, I haven't been able to find anything wrong with it. Sometimes it takes it a little while to remember to check for mail after the computer wakes from sleep; so far that's all I can find.
It won't crash your system or do anything like that-- Dave's been programming on OS X long enough (four years?) to know better than that. It should be perfectly stable and indeed, should be the awesomest program on your computer.
And, if you go into Preferences in Apple Mail (I know, it's retarded that there isn't any other control panel for this) and specify (under General) Gmail Notifier as your default mail program, any mailto: link you click in a webpage will automatically open up a new message in Gmail with the link's to: address as its recipient. Which is a-pretty-pretty cool.
(The website will have all this information and these instructions on it. He just sorta thought it was dumb to hold up the beta release just so he could put up a website with information I could just as easily tell you. Since the first beta testers are probably going to have half a clue on their own anyway. Y'all are smart people.)
