Digital Inspiration Technology Blog: You’ve Got Mail – A New Notifier for Gmail

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You've Got Mail – A New Notifier for Gmail Aug 14th 2012, 18:05 Back in the days of dial-up Internet, America Online (AoL) subscribers would hear a sound alert saying “You’ve got mail” every time a new email landed in their AOL mailbox. → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfkqZQGvuL4 Voice-over artist Elwood Edwards initially recorded these three words on a cassette tape to sell them as a .wav file, AOL decided to use the sound into their mail program and the line became such a hit that it even inspired Warner Bros. to create a movie with the same name - “You’ve got mail.” Much of the world has probably moved away from Aol Mail since then but there’s a new Chrome extension in town that adds the same sound alert to your Gmail. Just install the add-on (it requires no configuration) and you’ll hear Elwood’s voice every time there’s a new Gmail message in your mailbox. If the alerts are too frequent, you can always hit the mute button and the add-on will display the unread counts in text much like the official Gmail notifier for Chrome. It works with both Gmail and Google Apps accounts. You’ve Got Mail is a work of the same team that created Unbaby.me, a viral Chrome add-on that replaces baby pictures on Facebook with that of cats. This story, You’ve Got Mail – A New Notifier for Gmail, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 14/08/2012 under GMail, Google Chrome, Internet.

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