Archive for the ‘Gmail’ tag
Moving to Opera
Though I did move to opera as I’d said in my earlier post, I missed the extensibility of Firefox that I had much used. I had used the following extensions usually on Firefox:
Off the list, I do not care much about Adblock Plus or Google Gears except for the fact they made browsing easy to look at and faster respectively. Can do without them. (I know Opera has a way of blocking too, but am not interested in blocking ads for a while now, maybe when I get irritated by them again.). And Stylish like features is obviously well built into Opera, so 3 tasks done by default.
Coming to Gmail Manager and FireFTP, for Gmail Manager I looked for desktop packages called kcheckgmail and other widgets but some refused to work while the other required a dependency I was not willing to install. As always when this happens I headed to Qt-Apps and got myself QGmailNotifier. Built it with a [qmake - make and make install] and I was ready to launch qgmailnotifier and work well it did. Qt applications always ftw for me! For FireFTP, the existing Dolphin and Konqueror of my KDE sufficed. I created an FTP folder for my site and a WebDAV one for SourceForge and it were done, again too simply. 
The only thing missing now is a notifier for Google Reader. Maybe I’ll look into sources of some widgets and combine it with QGmailNotifier. But I guess that’d have to wait. Could there be an alternative way?
No Opera widgets please, they are just not how I need it. It has to be either a desktop tray software or a notifier within the browser in some toolbar as an icon.
Gmail’s Chat gets invisible mode!
People should have been waiting only too long for such a wonderful stalking tool and now Google’s yet again satisfied them.
Gmail’s Chat module now has Invisible mode in it while the GTalk client still doesn’t have it. (Do they even actively develop the desktop version of it?)
Screens:
Nice addition, now its time for me to *poof* Ninja style.
Gmail gets more colorful
Yep, cause they’ve just added coloring to their labels. Now you can set a different color for each of your label and they would appear as below:
Setting the colors:
Which in the Inbox, would reflect as:
Pretty neat feature! And it comes just days after the integration of Group Chat and emoticons into the same good old Gmail. (They were previously exclusive to the Widget GTalk alone).
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