I am amazed at how creative people are. And that’s what hacking is all about - learning, tweaking, creating. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when Google announced GMail, people started their hacking. Here is a run down of some fun and crazy Gmail hacks. Some are simple extensions for firefox, some are more complicated scripts, and some are just plain silly.
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Gmail Based blog - this idea uses libgmailer to connect to Gmail. Uses GMail messages as “entries” (the message star is the publish status) and replies to conversations are the “entry comments”
Firefox Gmail Notifier - Firefox extension that notifies you of new GMail mail.
Encrypt entire Gmail session - a nice little hack if you’re reading mail at your local, unecrypted hotspot. Just replace http with https once you log into Gmail and now your session is encrypted.
GMail Loader - So, you want to switch to GMail, but you have a ton of message that you want to bring over. Well, this can help solve your problems. Today, the GMail Loader is a graphical, cross-platform, Python based utility that supports two mBox formats (Netscape, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Most Other Clients), MailDir(Qmail, others), MMDF(Mutt), MH (NMH), and Babyl (Emacs RMAIL).
ReadPst - a utility to convert your Outlook .pst mail files to GMail.
GMailSkins - ok, this is the Texas Chainsaw massacre for GMail. Alright, bad joke. Tired of the Gmail interface? Go check it out.
GMail To Do List - that’s what I love about researching this stuff - I find useful stuff for you and me!
GMailTo Mac OS X - this little proggie allows you to redirect any email link to GMail.
GMail Icon Generator - It does other types of accounts too, but we’re talking GMail here. If you’ve never been told, allow me to tell you. Don’t post your email account on your blog in plain text. Spammers gobble that up. Use this to create a picture file that spambots can’t use.
GMail Drive - allows you to use GMail’s space as a drive on your machine. How’s that for convenient? Throw away the jumpdrive - just use GMail.
GMail Notifier - Google’s own tool to put a notifier tool in your system tray. Let’s you know when you get new mail.
GMail & Calendar Event - This one is really easy to miss. When you are emailing someone, maybe about a meeting with them, there is small text in the upper right - above the text area. It says “add event info.” If you click that, you can make a calendar entry from your email. I love this. If you click on “more event options,” you can add guests. These guests can be sent invitations to the meeting.
GMail Compose - Allows you to right click in the context menu on Firefox and GMail someone. It’s a firefox extension.
libgmail - For you coders - python binding for the GMail service.
Install Linux on Gmail - A wonderful hack to put linux on GMail.
GMail manager - Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
GDisk - turns your GMail account into a mountable Mac drive.
GTDGMail - is a Firefox extension that integrates the highly effective methodology of “Getting Things Done” into the popular email service Gmail.
GMail MP3Player - this shows you how to use GMail as an MP3 player.
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Your link for ‘GMail Icon Generator’ needs a url fix. You forgot the ‘h’ on ‘http’. =)
thanx ben.
Got enough crap all over your page trying to advertise it? Get rid of the digg/reddit/etc, blog ratings, google/yahoo bars….
no and no
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