Wednesday, 13 April 2005
Reading your Gmail via Atom
I’ve been using GmailStatus to alert me when I get new mail to my Gmail account (anyone want an account?). On my 12-inch PowerBook, however, menu bar space is precious, and if I can eliminate a menu bar widget, I will.
This may come as old news to some, but Gmail has added Atom feeds. It was really as simple as the article states: I dropped the link in to my NetNewsWire subscriptions, it asked for my login and password to the Gmail account, and that was it. I sent a test message to my Gmail account, and a couple of minutes later, when the feed refreshed, there it was. Aces!
NetNewsWire is one of the applications I always have open, so it makes sense for my usage patterns to keep track of my Gmail account this way. I don’t use Gmail as a primary e-mail account, so there’s no reason for me to keep it open in a browser window, and I’ve yet to get its POP access working with Mailsmith. If anyone’s been able to do this, please let me know.
posted on April 13, 2005 2:57 PMInstead of using the RSS or Gmail notifier why not just use a Google X Clone with a built in Gmail notifier in it? Just a suggestion!
Posted by: hiddennook 
at April 13, 2005 4:03 PM
Darnell, the only problem with the Google X clones you mention is that they're web pages. While my e-mail client and news reader are always open, my web browser is slightly less so. And because of the low traffic through my Gmail account, I'd like an automatic notification that I don't have to think about (which going to a web page would entail), and that's out of the way (which GmailStatus or gCount are not).
Thanks for the suggestion, though, and thanks for reading.
Posted by: retrophisch at April 13, 2005 11:34 PM