That’s the question on everyone’s mind lately and the answer seems to be, at least in the case of my site, yes. Mozilla use on Aimless Words has increased about ten percent from the end of July to today. Of course, I don’t get 10M uniques each month so my sampling could be [...]

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GMCP is a new GMail extension written in Perl that offers file storage functionality. Through the use of a command line Perl script you can upload or download file attachments. Attachments are uploaded by mailing them to yourself. Attachments are downloaded by searching for all or part of an attachments name. [...]

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I have been told that GMail has released a new batch of invites. I did not receive any but perhaps you did? The person reporting this signed up several hours after me so I don’t know what this means. Perhaps I will wake up tomorrow morning with several invites in my mailbox.

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I figured that title would get your attention. I don’t actually know when Google will release GMail publicly but since I am waiting for a really large mySQL database load to finish my mind is wandering…

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A new contender in the GMail new mail notification space for Windows is gNotify. gNotify utilizes the .Net framework and is designed to run in the system tray. It offers notifications using text balloons or sounds, or both. More impressive, it offers a preview of the message as well as a list [...]

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Until today, whenever I would read a MIME multipart text message such as one generated by the Python-Announce list, GMail would display the main body and the provide links to view or download the attached MIME pieces. Now, GMail is displaying the entire message with all text attachments inline. Therefore, I can read [...]

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Eric F. Kastner has thrown together a simple GMail scraper script that returns a list of inbox items.
Scripting Language: Perl
Source: WWW::Scraper::Gmail at CPAN

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GMail for Perl? You bet and it’s overdue. Allen Holman is working on a GMail interface using Perl and it’s progressing nicely. The initial release was in early August and he has already released six versions. A highlight of current functionality:
* STARTING A NEW GMAIL SESSION
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Early analysis from third-party GMail utility developers seems to indicate that the breakage that occurred yesterday as a result of changes to GMail’s login handling serves no purpose other than to break third-party utilities. Can’t we all just get along? GMail had to anticipate third-party utilities or am I giving them more credit [...]

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Dynadvance’s Mail Notifier is a Windows system tray application that will keep you notified of new GMail or YahooMail messages. It does not require the .Net framework. A few other features:
* autologin to GMail accounts
* multiple account support
* play a sound when new mail arrives
I usually like to give new GMail utilities [...]

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