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).