10.4: Use Safari's RSS reader as a GMail notifier

May 06, '05 09:22:00AM

Contributed by: maddys_daddy

Tiger only hintI've been a long-time Firefox devotee, but with Safari 2.0 in Tiger, Firefox is quickly becoming my secondary browser. One thing that I missed, however, was a GMail notifier, a la the Firefox GMail Notifier extension, since I spend a lot of my computing time in my browser.

While checking my GMail today, I noticed the RSS icon in Safari's address bar. Clicking it resulted in a GMail login sheet, with an option to save the info in my keychain. To make Safari's RSS work as a notifier for you, simply bookmark the RSS feed on your Bookmarks bar (or even a folder on the bookmarks bar with multiple RSS feeds). The number of unread RSS entries for the feed (your GMail inbox, in this case) will show up next to the bookmark (or bookmark bar subfolder that your RSS feeds are in) at the interval you specify in Safari's prefs. Viola! An instant GMail notifier on your Safari Bookmark Bar!

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