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See Unread GMail Count on Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher

My favourite ‘app’ of the moment is Unity Mail – a small Unity Launcher-based app that tells you how many unread messages you have in your GMail inbox.

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‘UnityMail’ Shows Unread GMail Count on Ubuntu Unity Launcher

UnityMail in Ubuntu 11.04 showing the quicklist and number of unread mails

UnityMail is a small Launcher-based mail-alert app for Ubuntu 11.04 capable of displaying the number of unread messages in your inbox. It also has Unity Quicklist support, with a menu containing easy links for composing new messages and accessing your inbox by right-clicking on the launcher icon.

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Enable IMAP push (Gmail) in Evolution

Enable Push Notification support in Evolution and never have to hit the refresh button again.

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Animated desktop Gmail notifier

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If you’re looking for a slightly annoying but fun way to recieve GMail alerts then b2 Labs Gmail Notifier may be just your cup of tea.

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Popper – Feature-filled e-Mail notification applet for Ubuntu

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Fed up with service-specific e-mail notification applets/tools for Ubuntu?

So is Popper.

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GmailWatcher – Another way to get GMail alerts in the Ubuntu Messaging Menu

If Evolution is overkill for your needs than a simple Gmail notification application is ideal. There are plenty of solutions available – in fact we’ve reviewed two such applications previously. Say hello to another, then, as we peek at GMailWatcher – a simple Messaging Menu application for alerting you to new mails in your inbox [...]

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GMail Notifier puts GMail in your Messaging Menu

Further to our previous post on integrating Thunderbird with the Messaging Menu it struck me that many users – such as myself – don’t use a desktop e-mail client at all. Below are two very similar applications that integrate your GMail account inside the messaging menu – complete with menu entry, notify-osd ‘bubbles’ and even [...]

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Video Conferencing Coming To GMail Chat

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Reports are circulating that GMail chat – the web-based version of Google Talk/GTalk – will be adding multi-user video chat/video conferencing to this other Google services in the coming months. GMail Chat only supports one-to-one video chat at present. Linux Users Linux users can currently use the video chat feature via Empathy (with caveats attached), but [...]

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Install Updated Gnome-Do – Now With Awesome GMail Docklet!

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The next version of Gnome-Do will come pre-packaged with several new docklets – including the GMail docklet pictured above. It sits in your dock and simply informs you of mail via a ‘counter’ and has a handy right-click menu for accessing new mails, your inbox and composing mail. The Clock Docklet will be themeable, as [...]

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