I’m trying to live the totally uninstalled life. One thing that I miss when turning to Windows Live Custom Domains or GMail in Google Apps for your domain is: How do I get informed that I got an new email? It feels like a waste of time having to logging into my e-mail service provider all the time.

Many of you probably recognize the Outlook e-mail icon ni the activity task bar: inbox3.jpg

So what I want is whenever I receive an email I want the same kind of notice. I don’t want to install anything on my desktop, I don’t want to have an open browser since for example Gmail already have: inbox1.jpg – but to get that, I need to start a browser and keep it open!

But how do I get it without installing anything and without keeping my browser logged into my email provider? Anyone knows for Gmail for example? As you undestand on my blog – I’m looking at it from the users perspective. I simply want to see a notification when I receive a new mail with the minimal amount of fuss and without installing anything – is that so hard to fix?

Yes – I know there are add-ons for Firefox such as Gmail manager, Gmail Notifier, E-mail notifier Toolbar and many other tools and add-ons to install but they break the first rule of My Uninstalled Life – install nothing on your desktop.