Communication is a necessary part of our daily lives. It may be executed in several ways like speech, body language, and writing. As the technology evolved, the means to convey a written communication also evolved. Today, email is one of the established techniques to communicate. Email was an integral and constituent part in the development of Internet. Email hasn’t changed much since its creation. In our digital life, it has become an integral part.
There were many free Email providers offering their services when Google launched its own email service named Gmail which is called Google Mail in U.K. and Germany. Gmail made a breakthrough offering 1GB storage capacity compared to its counterparts who were offering 2 to 4 MB space. Gmail has turned out to be one of popular Email services with a user base of 146 million as of July 2009. Long since I got Gmail invitation, I use it as my sole Email existence in digital world. With the release of chrome official extensions repository, I am gradually switching to Chrome Browser. In the quest to find alternatives of Firefox addons in Google Chrome extensions, I have found a Gmail notifying extension to use in chrome.
Google Mail Checker is a rather simple extension to get Gmail notifications. I am amazed to learn that it is also the most popular Google chrome extension with 148,791 users as of my writing. A Gmail icon appears on the right left side of the address bar. A left click will redirect you to Gmail login page. The user enters account details and whenever a new email message arrives, the counter increases with a little animation. This Gmail Notifier extension also misses some necessary featured as other Chrome extensions because they are fresh. My wish list to enhance this extension is
- Support for Multiple Gmail Accounts
- Support of Google Apps
- Auto Login.
- A Notification that displays Sender, Subject, Snippet of Email
In short, Google Mail Checker fulfills the basic necessity for a Gmail notification extension but it can be improved and expanded in a lot of ways.
