GMail Notifier - Email In The Cloud

About.com: http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html.   In my recent zest to avoid proprietary software, and use open source (free) tools in my law practice, I have abandoned Microsoft Word and Office for OpenOffice and Google Calendar. They are accessible from any web browser, and work great. I have also abandoned proprietary email clients for the ubiquitous GMail, which also works great. One problem I had, however, was the fact that clicking an outgoing email link in other software brought up whatever email client set as a Windows default. What to do? Gmail Notifier is the answer, and it is also free. In addition to allowing me to set GMail as my default email program, it contains a handy little taskbar icon that notifies me when new email arrives. I have a Google Chrome extension that does the same thing, but Notifier gives a little window with a blurb of the actual email text, allowing me to separate the wheat from the chaff. I paid a fortune for Microsoft Office 2007, just to get Outlook and Word. But, when I swapped hard drives in a new computer, it asserted that I needed to activate, and I went through telephone hell trying to do so. After an hours of phone calls, I gave up, and have uninstalled Microsoft Office 2007 completely. What a load off of my computing mind. Now, if one of the cloud law office management services will create an automatic sync with Google apps, I will be on cloud nine.

Comments

[charles jannace]

Prepare to exit from cloud eight. I am 99% sure that I've read about an Android app that syncs Google apps. I didn't evernote or bookmark it because I'm using Amicus and Outlook.

[charles jannace]

I think I have it here. m.google.com allows you to sync google apps if they are on your domain.

[Patrick H. Stiehm]

What about the ever present security problems? Is Goodge Calendar, Docs, etc secure? I have read that they are but I don't rust the source. Does anyone know?

[Rexxfield Internet libel litigation support]

The fact that google serves up advertisements based on keywords in gmail messages would be a concern for me with confidential messages. I don't like anyone reading my mail, especially google robots.