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Google Notifier + Growl

A while back I listed my wishlist for Google Notifier, and one of them was the lack of Growl support — instead they use a home-grown one that reinvents the wheel, so to speak.

Fortunately, someone created Gmail+Growl for Google Notifier, a Google Notifier plugin that replaces the built-in notifications with Growl notifications.

So that’s one item off that list. The only other one is support for Google Reader, but the Gmail+Growl software apparently is a “plugin” …

Google Down

What happened?!? At about 10:30 PM PST.

Google Notifier Wishlist

Jealous of Microsoft Outlook users’ system tray icon notifying them of new messages, I’ve begun using Google Notifier to help sate this jealousy.

  • Growl support — why go through the trouble of using your own notification system? How about, if Growl is installed, use that instead? Growl has many advantages over Google Notifier’s built-in bubbles, and it would be great if this could be supported.
  • Google Reader support — Gmail, check. Google Calendar, check. Google …