There are number of gmail checker plugins for different browsers. Chrome also has couple of them. But here is an extension for gmail, that does some pretty smart stuff.
Gmail Checker Plus, has some cool features.
- 10 different icon sets, choose your favorite!
- Mail preview window
- Delete, archive, spam, star and mark as read functionality
- Google Apps support
- Mailto-links open in your Gmail or Google Apps Mail account
- Monitor all your labels
The mail preview window is my favorite feature. If you look at the picture here, you will get a good idea about how this works. Instead of just viewing the number of unread emails on your inbox, this window actually helps you reply, mark read or mark that email spam.
You can select how the plugin windows should look like. Change colors of the icons depending up on your taste. See them in action in the image below.
Now, go ahead and install this extension and play with it ! Install it from here … and dont forget to leave your feedback in comments !
Chrome Extensions
If you are a google chrome fan, you might have heard people making fun of your for praising google chrome because it had no extensions support. Now, you can laugh back at them. Extensions will be officially available to everyone very soon. What makes me think so ? Read on ..
Chrome team has been testing and developing plugins or extensions for a long time now. But even on the developer version of Google chrome it required you to add a line of code to the command line for launching chrome. This is no longer required. That means, Extensions support is turned on by default on all google chrome dev versions now.
What this means, to me
So, for someone like me, using google chrome dev version, the browser is extension read, and there is a good documentation on how to create extensions, if I want to code my own thing. There is only one thing missing, an official extensions gallery, like they have for themes. We can expect this too, very soon.
What this means, to you
If you are using the stable version of Google chrome,  this means, you will have all the awesomeness of google chrome extensions and themes very soon, probably on your next update. We have reasons to believe that this will happen along with the stable releases for Mac and Linux. So, there is a big day ahead, when all these things are rolled out, together …
Wait for a great news ….
photo by ginnerobot
I like things when they become ( very ) official. Â There are themes and plugins available for g-chrome already, but I did not post about them yet, and this is my reason. It’s not that I don’t like to test things, I love testing, of course and I am using g-chrome development version on both my windows and linux installations.
Some Sexy Google Chrome Themes Here
When things go official, they become more easy for users to understand and implement. For example, installing a new theme or plugin now, that’s before they go official, requires few steps that an average users may not be able to follow. But, when plugins and themes are official, it may take only couple of mouse clicks, to get you going.
Okay, so to the news of the day, this is again ( following news from the dev version ? check out archives and subscribe to RSS for more )  from my development version running on windows XP. I see an option to  reset google chrome theme to default. Even Though I don’t see anything else other than this about themes or plugins, this is of course a good sign. We are just a few more steps away from implementing themes and extensions.
You will see more colors on google chrome very soon. Make your g-chrome look cute, sexy, or hot .. whatever you want !!