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b2 GMail Notifier brings insipid Incredimail style alerts to your webmail
So you've switched to GMail but pine for the days of yore when that snooty butler hand delivered your new Incredimail messages to you? Well, you're in luck!
Among the dozens of options available for GMail inbox alerts is b2 Notifier. Think of it as a combination of one part something Download Squad readers love (GMail) and two parts things they hate with a passion (Adobe Air and Incredimail).
And unlike Incredimail, since this baby is built on Air that means it will run on all three major OSes. Isn't that awesome news?! Yeah, I didn't think so either. I've built up an aversion to apps like this over the years.
It never fails that a system which can barely run the diagnostic and cleanup apps I throw at it will have Incredimail (or some other cheesey animated alerter - RIP, Bonzi Buddy) installed. And it also never fails that they'll start popping up with great frequency the moment I need to dig in.
But hey, to each his/her own. If you love sappy happy animated shenanigans, b2 Notifier should be right up your alley. And, in truth, if this app would actually convince some of my customers to switch from Incredimail to GMail, I'd be all for it.
Among the dozens of options available for GMail inbox alerts is b2 Notifier. Think of it as a combination of one part something Download Squad readers love (GMail) and two parts things they hate with a passion (Adobe Air and Incredimail).
And unlike Incredimail, since this baby is built on Air that means it will run on all three major OSes. Isn't that awesome news?! Yeah, I didn't think so either. I've built up an aversion to apps like this over the years.
It never fails that a system which can barely run the diagnostic and cleanup apps I throw at it will have Incredimail (or some other cheesey animated alerter - RIP, Bonzi Buddy) installed. And it also never fails that they'll start popping up with great frequency the moment I need to dig in.
But hey, to each his/her own. If you love sappy happy animated shenanigans, b2 Notifier should be right up your alley. And, in truth, if this app would actually convince some of my customers to switch from Incredimail to GMail, I'd be all for it.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Anon said 10:05PM on 10-14-2009
Correction: "two parts", not "to parts"
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Josh said 8:13AM on 10-15-2009
No.. That would be wrong as well. To begin with, the sentence is really poorly written.
"Think of it as a combination of one part something Download Squad readers love (GMail) and to parts things they hate with a passion (Adobe Air and Incredimail)."
"Two parts" instead of "to parts" here wouldn't make any sense. It would make the sentence even more broken than it already is.
"Think of it as a combination of one part something Download Squad readers love (GMail), and another part something they hate with a passion (Adobe Air en Incredimail)."
Also.. I don't hate Adobe Air! Adobe Air is cool :) Incredimail is very much like an incurable fatal disease, though. Not touching it with a ten foot pole.
Josh said 8:16AM on 10-15-2009
Oh, "two" can be used there though, but then you need to use proper punctuation in order for the sentence to make sense.
"Think of it as a combination of one, something Download Squad readers love (GMail) and two, things they hate with a passion (Adobe Air and Incredimail)."
Anon said 10:32AM on 10-15-2009
No, "two parts" could work (it's like a ratio). "Take one part flour and two parts sugar." The author wanted a sentence like a recipe.