Freeware February: gCount
If you have a Gmail account, and who doesn’t now adays, then you need to download
gCount right now. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Ok, good. What is gCount you ask? It is a little application that checks your Gmail account for email on a regular
interval (which you can set) and notifies you of new email by either changing the icon color from black to red or by
displaying the number of emails you have in your Gmail inbox in the menu bar (or dock).
A simple application that I use everyday, it has become invaluable as my Gmail account has become my primary email
account.
If you are using version .4 you should upgrade to .5 which allows the application work with Gmail once again (some
changes with Gmail made gCount inoperable with Gmail for a few days but it was upgraded very quickly).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeremy Buckler said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
but now that gmail offers POP access, for me the gCount app became useless as i usually have my mail app open all the time
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Erik Weibust said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Well, I have a Gmail account but just can't find a use for it. I prefer yahoo mail. It allows me to read all my junk mail that comes into my @yahoo.com mail acct and the BEST thing is that I can configure yahoo mail to read my personal POP mail, the one that gets no spam (think name at weibust dot net)
As soon as Gmail allows me to read other POP mail I'm in. I must use a web-based mail app because I'm reading/writing mail at both work, home, and my laptop.
How in the world can people work with Mail clients that pull all their mail down? It would make me crazy.
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Robert said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
I like how gCount works, but I have stopped using it (I've gone back to GmailStatus). Why? Because it's a memory hog (0.4 had a huge memory leak, 0.5 is better). When it starts it pulls down about 7MB of RAM, but over the course of 24 hours memory usage balloons to 30+ MB (with occasional peaking up to 60 MB).
I'll continue to watch development, maybe it will get better...
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Philipp said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
I liked it a lot. But since they introduced POP I abandoned it too.
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mv said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Is there an incredimail equivalent program for Mac mail?
Or a general email notifier that works with Mac mail?
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ralgoooe said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
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freeware and very handy :)
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Kevin Ballard said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Erik - ever heard of something called IMAP? It lets you keep all your mail on the server, so you can access it from several different machines in different locations and have access to all your mail from any of them.
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Erik Weibust said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Kevin- Yes I've heard of IMAP. The problem is that my web/mail host, 1&1, doesn't offer IMAP access so I'm stuck with a web-based account. The next time I move my account that will be the first thing I look for.
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Pdilly said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Which is better - gCount or Gmailstatus? Anyone have a take on the differences?
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Garett said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
I have multiple accounts with gmail so I figured I could use gcount and gmailstatus each with a seperate account, but no such luck. The gcount would say there were no unread messages in either account, but once I closed gmail status it would find the unread messages in both accounts.
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Ryan said 8:28PM on 6-21-2005
This is the first I've heard of gCount. I use GmailStatus.
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Mykok Inurmouth said 9:22AM on 6-23-2005
I'd have to say GmailStatus is better.... since it works, and gCount doesn't.
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Brian Parry said 12:14PM on 8-10-2005
The problem I had with gCount is it doesn't work, or work well, with multiple accounts. It only handles 1 gMail account so I tried running two copies for two different gMails. No good.
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barb dybwad said 4:41PM on 10-07-2005
Question for the folks pulling down Gmail via POP - is it the bees knees, all that and a bucket of chicken with side of slaw? You can pull down via any POP client on any machine and have your Gmail automagically mirrored there? That would rawk.
My other question is for any Gmail folks using multiple accounts: I've sort of hacked up a 'productivity suite' using different gmail accounts to do notes, tasks, etc. because I was tearing my hair out working on so many different machines and devices and who was time to deal with syncing things?!? Has anybody found a decent solution to working with multiple Gmail accounts? Am I doomed to kludge it in my 6 different browsers for now?
any tips appreciated, thanks!
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