Very cool this one is. Gmail a good emailer, yes. Use as GNOME's default, you can. "Using Gmail as GNOME's default mailer" you should read now. Simple script, easy configuration. Clicking on email link now opens Gmail, yes. Later you thank me. (Check out all of our posts on Gmail & GNOME.) ...

Here's the latest in a loooooooooong line of cool Greasemonkey extensions: Gmail Conversation Preview Bubbles. Right-click on a message in Gmail, & a cute lil' balloon opens with the message in it. Makes buzzing through Gmail even faster! Try it out & let us know if ya like it. (Check out all of my posts on Greasemonkey.) ...

There is only one RSS/ATOM aggregator worth a tinker's damn: Bloglines. http://www.bloglines.com Yes, it's a Web site. Yes, it's an application - a Web service. Don't let that stop you. Bloglines is to RSS feeds what Gmail is to email. And, like Gmail, it runs on Linux, which is icing on the cake. Believe me, I've looked at all of them. I've been subscribing to RSS feeds since 2001, and I've tried a variety of clients on Windows and Linux. The best of them, by far, isn't a client you run on your machine; it's Bloglines, a Web application. Powerful, feature-complete (and very respondent to user suggestions), persistent storage - and it's free. It just does things "right" - or at least more right than everyone else. Check it out. And if you're looking for some RSS feed suggestions, pls feel free to check out my blogroll: http://www.bloglines.com/public/rsgranne ...

I've pretty much switched to Gmail for my web-based mail, but I still keep a Yahoo account for old times' sake, & as a backup. Well, I just may start using it more after reading this latest bit o' news. Remember Oddpost, the web site that let folks read their email using a web-based interface that looked remarkably like MSFT's Outlook? Unfortunately, I could never try it, since even then I'd stopped using IE and Windows, which was the only browser/OS combo that Oddpost supported (bad Oddpost, bad!). Then Yahoo bought 'em. Then they got busy redoing their service & integrating it into Yahoo. And now it appears that soon - very soon - Yahoo will unveil it's new email interace, and it's going to be Oddpost all the way, baby. Fortunately - and smartly - this new Oddpost UI will support Firefox on both Mac AND Windows (& therefore, presumably, Linux). Good Oddpost, good! This really is fantastic news! I really like Gmail, but it's great to have competition in this space, and the Oddpost ...