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Gmail Chat Alert: Audio notification for Gmail IMs
by Jordan Running May 8th 2006 at 3:40PM
Gmail's built-in Chat feature, which lets you use Google Talk within your web browser, is pretty handy, but I often find that a message has been waiting me for a long time before I notice the tab blinking at me. Gmail Chat Alert is an extension for Firefox that fixes that by sounding an audio notification when you get an IM in Gmail. Simple and effective.
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Blue_Chi said 4:38PM on 5-08-2006
Google should integrate this with the Gmail notifier.
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Doug said 6:14PM on 5-08-2006
Google should get Chat into Gmail in other languages... like English, for example. :(
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J3anyus said 4:03PM on 5-09-2006
Gmail Chat actually already sounds an audio alert when you get a new message. It's a new feature they just added recently.
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