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Gmail Tools & Plugins

Gmail Tools & Plugins
Plugins and tools to make Gmail easier to use are starting to pop up on the web, here are the ones I've found so far:
Official Gmail Notifier from Google (beta) - Downloadable Windows/Mac application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages.
GMNotifier - More configurable notifier based on .NET (Via here)
GTray - Another configurable Windows notifier includes XP welcome screen integration
Google Toolbar with Gmail search - Official IE toolbar featuring one-click Gmail search
Gmail Search Extension - Search your Gmail account from the Firefox search bar
Gmail Tray - A search box for the Windows taskbar
Gmail Notifier - Firefox extension, installs an icon on your toolbar that displays the amount of new messages in your inbox (previous post)
Gmail-to - Associate all mailto: links with Gmail as opposed to Outlook
Gmail-to Bookmarklet - Compose messages from your Gmail account from any page (previous post)
Gmailit - Bookmarklet to send the current page you're viewing to someone through Gmail
GMail Loader (GML) - Cross platform application forwards your existing email to Gmail
Gmail Address Book Exporter - Requires Java (via here)
Pop Goes the GMail - Gmail > POP3 converter (obsolete)
gExodus - Graphical user interface tool allows you to import your emails into your Gmail account.
gCount - a menu bar item for Mac OS X 10.3 or later that displays the number of unread messages in the inbox (Via Google Blogoscoped)
GMail, RSS Feeds - .php script to retrieve notifications of new mail through RSS
Adding Gmail Inbox to your News Reader - Receive new emails in your RSS reader with the Atom feed (Caution: this is not very secure)
Gmail as online backup system - .php script to back up files to Gmail and retrieve them
GFile - Easily installed front end script for 'Gmail as online backup system' (Recommended by Evan White)
Gmail in Opera - Use Gmail with the Opera browser, which currently is unsupported (Opera is now supported with...