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Nathan Spindel

gCount is a menu bar and/or Dock item that displays the unread status of the inbox of a recently popular email service. It is provided free of charge. It requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

What's New

Version 0.5:

Features

Preference to specify an alternate web browser for gCount to use for external links (eg. Open Inbox, Compose Mail).
gCount now uses a much faster, and less memory intensive method for communicating with the email service (Atom feed), thanks to Jim Thomason.
Growl notifications now include the authors' names of unread threads.
gCount now uses your proxy settings, if you use one.

Bug Fixes

Audio files are now scanned for proper extensions. .DS_Store is not a sound. :)
gCount is now again compatible with Growl. See http://growl.info/ for more info.
Many memory leaks squashed, and a few under the hood performance improvements.
Login information is no longer passed as arguments to a script. Yay.

Version 0.5:

Features

Preference to specify an alternate web browser for gCount to use for external links (eg. Open Inbox, Compose Mail).
gCount now uses a much faster, and less memory intensive method for communicating with the email service (Atom feed), thanks to Jim Thomason.
Growl notifications now include the authors' names of unread threads.
gCount now uses your proxy more...

Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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Anonymous reviewed on 01 Aug 2005

This used to be the top Gmail notifier, but the developer has become lazy. The program hasn't worked in months. All that is needed to fix it is to change the RSS feed, but apparently the developer doesn't care. The least he could do is release a version where you can change the RSS feed yourself, so we wouldn't have to wait for him.

[Version 0.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 13 Jun 2005

Works very well. The only feature I'd like to see is to have gCount automatically reset the new mail indicator when I use the "open inbox" command.

[Version 0.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 07 Jun 2005

why does this app try to connect to death.ocf.berkley.edu on start up ?

[Version 0.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 27 Mar 2005

Great little app. It doesn't hog my CPU. Stays at 0% activity most of the time, goes to 0.05% now and then. Goes up to about 50% for a second while it checks for mail.

More importantly if you set gCount to the default mail application in the preferences of Mail.app you get mailto: links working. Pressing a mailto: link will open a new gmail compose window!

Would be nice to see unread messages and icon instead of only one or the other.

Great work!

[Version 0.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 18 Feb 2005

It's a CPU hog.

[Version 0.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 01 Feb 2005

I gave this app a 5 for ease of use, and a 3 for value. Althought it is great to have this app to check your gmail account, it seems like a waste of space if you also have a pop/imap which gets checked by some other app.

Suggestion: Would be great if gcount would check imap/pop and gmail altogether. I think it would soar to new levels with those features.

What do you think?

[Version 0.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 30 Jan 2005

Doesn't work under Tiger...

[Version 0.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 30 Jan 2005

It's fixed, it's the best and I like it!

[Version 0.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 30 Jan 2005

Yay! Sacred update!

1 thing, it crashed one time.

[Version 0.5]

Fred3rik commented on 22 Jan 2005

I've always liked gCount better than GmailStatus, but in the recent time, GmailStatus has got so many new features, while I'm sitting here with gCount who hasn't even been updated to Gmail's new logic scheme. Please Nathan Spindel, keep up your work on gCount.

[Version 0.4]

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Fred3rik replied on 23 Jan 2005

Edit to my post here:
It's supposed to say "login", not "logic".

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Downloads:10,823

Version Downloads:3,200

Type:Internet : Email

License:Free

Date:30 Jan 2005

Platform:PPC

Price:Free

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gCount is a menu bar and/or Dock item that displays the unread status of the inbox of a recently popular email service. It is provided free of charge. It requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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