Well I was just frequenting one of my many Google Groups and someone posted that Google had just released their (to my knowledge) very first piece of standalone software! The Gmail Notifier which can be found here:

http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/.

It allows the user to keep the program running in their system tray all the time and have a visual AND audio alert activated whenever new mail arrives. Now needless to say this must be in response to the many Gmail Tools/Utilities being developed currently by third party and indepedent developers.

Here’s the creepy part of all this: The page and the software itself aren’t showing up on ANY search engines and Google never links to the page from any other part of their site. Try it and let me know what you think. So far, I’m pretty impressed even I forgot to include that audio alert option, my bad-

-b