I haven’t had much luck getting the GNOME GTray app to work under Fedora. Dug around a little bit, and came up with a Firefox extension that largely does the trick (although you should probably just go to the front page and look for the newest version). Now I have to check my browser window to see if I’ve got new Gmail as opposed to simply looking at the GNOME system tray, but at least it works.
Archive for August, 2004
Been poking around looking for useful/interesting add-ons for Gmail. Here’s a few I’ve come up with:
- Gmail notifier - Windows tray app that checks for new mail, sets Gmail as the default mailto handler, official Google add-on
- GNOME GTray - notifier for Linux
- GML (GMail loader) - import mail from your old mail client (supports a wide variety)
- gExodus - graphical import util
- FreePOPs - POP3 interface for a variety of webmails, including Gmail
- GmailFS - turns a Gmail account into a mountable Linux filesystem
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Just got my hands on a Gmail account thanks to a very nice person from Oswego, NY. Many thanks to her. People who know me, I’ll hook you up as soon as I have any invites (let me know if you’re interested).
So. Was driving along last week and heard a big pow from under the hood. Knew that couldn’t be good, and it continued to make awful sounds, so I immediately pulled over and called for a tow. Tow was pretty uneventful. Just a quick hop across town via the interstate. Went in to take care of the paperwork while the driver unloaded my car. Came back out to find the car still jacked up and with the hood popped up. Apparently, there’d been a fire under the hood while I was inside. After a fire extinguisher and a lot of water, they’d managed to put out the fire. Driver towed it on over away from anything of value and unloaded it. Car started to roll down the slight incline, but it was in park (had been in neutral when it was towed). Not a good sign (you’d think the fire would be enough to tip me off that there were problems afoot). Turns out, towing a vehicle with the drive wheels on the ground… BAD IDEA. Transmission ripped itself apart, metal bits from it shorted out some wiring, which led to the fire.
Suffice it to say, my old ‘86 Tercel is now toast. And after I’d finally come up with a name for it too (Fireball). Farewell sweet Fireball, we’ll miss you. At least you went out with a bang instead of a wimper.
Tow company cut me a check for the cost of replacing the transmission (a little more than the Blue Book value if I’d sold it in working condition). I’ve managed to come up with a suitable replacement, an ‘01 Honda CR-V. It’s even silver.
