Gmail Notifier and Alternatives…

Someone asked me how to install Gmail Notifier on her new Vista PC at school. Doing a little research, I made the following suggestions:

  1. You can download and install gmail notifier. It’s here. While google does not indicate it will work with Vista, browsing the web, you can see several people who indicate it does.
  2. You can download and install google talk as this page suggests. Google talk is a chat application. I find it unnecessry since I can chat on the google page. Why have an extra application taking up system resources?
  3. You can install pidgin as your IM client. Pidgin affords you ability to use multiple chat platforms including google talk. It also gives you alerts when email arrives. If you’re going to use AIM or MSN Messenger or Yahoo IM, you might as well install pidgin. It’s here. I’ve been using it for years and like it better than Trillian.

Any other suggestions?

Yahoo! Presents Unlimited Storage

Last month I read that Yahoo! was going to give users unlimited email storage. This pleased me as I am currently using about a third of my Gmail account (I delete next-to-nothing) and my usage is growing faster than Gmail’s automatic increase.

Since reading that, when I log into my Yahoo account, I’ve seen the bar-graph at 6%. Today, I looked and it was 30%. That caught my attention and made be stop what I was doing to ponder how I managed to receive that much email overnight. But as I gazed upon the 30% bar-graph, I saw a wire coming from it to a Wile E. Coyote kind of blasting plunger. Within a few moments a fine looking animated man came upon the scene and pressed the plunger, eliminating the bar-graph. Mousing-over it revealed the words, “You now have unlimited storage.”

Woo-hoo!!! Thanks, Yahoo!