Filed under: Macintosh, E-mail, Productivity
Notify is a super-slick little Gmail app for OS X
by Jay Hathaway Aug 24th 2009
If you use Gmail on a Mac, you should consider checking out Notify. It's a great-looking, compact app that sits in your menubar and tells you when you have new Gmail messages. It works with up to 4 Gmail accounts, and also supports Growl notifications. It uses only a fraction of the system resources of clients like Apple Mail, so trading in Mail for Notify and Gmail's web interface might be a good move if you're strapped for memory.Notify takes up almost no space on your screen, even when fully expanded. Your separate accounts are laid out in an elegant tabbed interface that's compact, but not crowded. You can use Notify to manually check for new mail, or have it automatically refresh every 1, 2, 5, 10 or 15 minutes. There's also a handy button that opens Gmail in your browser, so you can quickly read those new messages. The app will soon be updated to work with Google Apps email accounts on your custom domain, or with any IMAP account, for that matter.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
