gCount 0.3 Released
gCount is a menu bar item that displays the number of unread messages in your GMail account. Version 0.3 adds many new features:
- Sound notification of new mail.
- Login info is now stored in keychain, no longer in the preferences plist. If you used v0.1 or v0.2 and launch v0.3, it will migrate your old login info to the keychain and delete it from the plist.
- Two modes: Icon mode and Text mode. When in Icon mode, another item in the menu appears at the top, displaying the count of unread emails. In the future these two may be merged together (an icon mode with count in it).
- The menu bar now displays an error icon/message if there are problems with your username and password and throws up an error dialog.
- gCount now checks to see if a newer version is available when starting up (there is an option to disable this), and there is a corresponding “Check for Updates…” menu item for manual checking. It also checks to see whether the current version is compatible with the email service.
- gCount can now handle mailto: urls, open Mail.app’s Preferences and change the “Default Email Reader” to gCount to enable this feature.
- A welcome message is displayed when gCount is launched for the first time.
- Before updating unread status or checking for gCount updates, gCount now checks to see if it is connected to the internet. If it isn’t, then it doesn’t attempt to update.
Download it from http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~natan/gcount/
UPDATE: Version 0.31 has been released, which fixes a few small bugs.
