The Bottom Line
Gee! is a wonderfully elegant and efficiently handy way to keep an eye on your Gmail Inbox with a menu bar icon displaying the number of new messages and the menu giving you the details. Unfortunately, you cannot interact with new mail right from Gee!.
Pros
- Gee! notifies you of new and unread mail in a Gmail account in the Mac OS X menu bar
- You can learn about the sender and subject using Gee!'s menu
- Gee! spins its menu bar icon happily on new unread Gmail email
Cons
- Gee! does not allow you to interact with individual messages
- You cannot start composing a message in Gmail from Gee!
- Gee! does not offer keyboard shortcuts
Description
- Gee! announces new mail in a Gmail account.
- Displaying unread message count in the OS X menu bar, Gee! can also spin its icon and play a sound.
- Optionally, Gee! displays the sender and subject of new messages in its menu.
- You can go directly to Gmail from Gee!'s menu, too.
- Support for Growl allows Gee! to display fancy notification windows.
- Using the Gmail Atom feed by default, Gee! can display item count for other feeds, too.
- Gee! supports Mac OS X 10.3/4.
Guide Review - Gee! 1.1.2 - Gmail New Mail Checker
To keep an eye on your Gmail Inbox, you can dedicate a browser tab or window to it. Gmail will automatically refresh and display new mail. That is simple, very convenient, and easy to miss. This is not necessarily bad, but if you want to be really notified of new mail in your Gmail account, a dedicated mail checker is the better choice. With Gee!, it is also the more elegant choice.
Sporting a simple but surprisingly stylish round Mac OS X menu bar icon, Gee! lets you know about the number of unread messages in your Gmail Inbox. If fresh mail arrives, Gee! can even spin the icon for even more eye catching. Gee!'s menu gives a handy overview of the new messages (displaying the sender and part of the subject) and lets you open Gmail in your browser.
A few more links and keyboard shortcuts for Gmail actions might be nice. It is also a pity Gee! does not allow you to open individual messages specifically or deal with (delete) them right from the Gee! menu.
Still, Gee! is a wonderfully handy way to keep an eye on your Gmail Inbox.
