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Linked List: September 2, 2005

Friday, 2 September 2005

Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X 

You know how Google encourages its employees to spend 20 percent of their time working on their own personal projects? Google engineer Greg Miller built Gmail Notifier, a tiny Mac app that give you access to Gmail in your menu bar.

The app is small and nonintrusive, but hopefully still has all the features a Mac user would want. With it you can:

  • view messages without opening a browser
  • open Gmail in your browser without forcing you to log in again
  • make Gmail your default email program
  • even more…
Pre-Release Hype for Mint 

Mint, Shaun Inman’s new web stats app, is scheduled for release next week. Looks like a nice package. See also: Matt Thomas (whose site design is pretty nifty) and Jeff Croft.

Take Control of Customizing Microsoft Office 

New $10 ebook by Kirk McElhearn. Says TidBITS publisher Adam Engst:

Please also note that we are donating 10% of September’s proceeds from the sale of all ebooks, including this one, to the American Red Cross Hurricane 2005 Relief Fund.

The Funniest Grid You Ever Saw 

More from Khoi Vinh on the grid system behind the new layout for The Onion.