Gmail Notifier
Like many people, I use Gmail as my primary email program. It follows me wherever I go so I don't have to worry about keeping the email on my computer at my office and the computer at my house syncronized. I have several POP3 accounts that I also have linked to my Gmail account, which allows me to receive the mail from each address, and also send mail as each of those addresses as well.
I can check my email easily wherever I can find an Internet connection, which has come in handy more than once. But one thing that has always bothered me a little was the fact that I had to remember to continually browse to Gmail to see if I had received any email.
But then my pal Jason told me about this:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=9429
It's called the Gmail Notifier. It's a small program that installs a small icon in the status bar locally on your workstation. When you get a new email message, it pops up a notification along with a snippet. And the best part is that it allows you to use Gmail as your "default mail program" so when you click on a "mailto:" link to send an email, it will automatically open a browser and load Gmail.
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