Comments on: How do I get that icon when I get new emails? http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails I want to uninstall all applications from my desktop and only use tools on the web. Call it web 2.0, webapplications or apps on tap. This is my story... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:53:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Wolven http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-209 Wolven Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:20:02 +0000 http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-209 This is a feature of all the new browsers. Simply LiveBookmark (Firefox) or RSS Bookmark (Safari) your e-mail's Web site, presuming that your provider pushes it out via RSS. G-Mail does, for example. You _do_ phrase it in an impossible manner. ActiveX components, for the record, *are* installed, in the sense that it downloads and activates a program. It sounds as if you're simply looking for a web-launched EXE file that stays resident even after the web browser is closed, but that doesn't officially have to stay on your hard drive. This is a feature of all the new browsers. Simply LiveBookmark (Firefox) or RSS Bookmark (Safari) your e-mail’s Web site, presuming that your provider pushes it out via RSS. G-Mail does, for example.

You _do_ phrase it in an impossible manner.

ActiveX components, for the record, *are* installed, in the sense that it downloads and activates a program.

It sounds as if you’re simply looking for a web-launched EXE file that stays resident even after the web browser is closed, but that doesn’t officially have to stay on your hard drive.

]]> By: uninstall http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-99 uninstall Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:58:57 +0000 http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-99 Thanks for commenting! It doesn't have to be installed. It's just that people's philosophy is that "you need to install an application for that". 10 years ago nobody ever thought you could run MS Excel over the web - "you have to install it" - now you can. Outlook Web Access is an example of a webmail that will give you the small icon by the clock without installing anything. So why wouldn't other be able to do it? I understand it might need some ActiveX component which has to be run but I still don't need to install it. Thanks for commenting! It doesn’t have to be installed. It’s just that people’s philosophy is that “you need to install an application for that”. 10 years ago nobody ever thought you could run MS Excel over the web - “you have to install it” - now you can.

Outlook Web Access is an example of a webmail that will give you the small icon by the clock without installing anything. So why wouldn’t other be able to do it? I understand it might need some ActiveX component which has to be run but I still don’t need to install it.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-92 Daniel Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:48:33 +0000 http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-92 So..what you want is an installed app on your computer....that isn't installed...that alerts you when you have mail....without the app ever running? Sounds like nonsense. So..what you want is an installed app on your computer….that isn’t installed…that alerts you when you have mail….without the app ever running?

Sounds like nonsense.

]]> By: uninstall http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-44 uninstall Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:20:29 +0000 http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-44 Well, that's kind of breaks the philosophy I have - uninstall everything. First, I don't want to install anything. Second, it's not very practical to keep browsing to my e-mail supplier all the time just to see if I got a new e-mail. I know it's those little things - but there's something I miss trying to live my uninstalled life. Well, that’s kind of breaks the philosophy I have - uninstall everything. First, I don’t want to install anything. Second, it’s not very practical to keep browsing to my e-mail supplier all the time just to see if I got a new e-mail. I know it’s those little things - but there’s something I miss trying to live my uninstalled life.

]]> By: BrowserDude http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-43 BrowserDude Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:07:06 +0000 http://www.myuninstalledlife.com/how-do-i-get-that-icon-when-i-get-new-emails#comment-43 What's the big deal? Just open the browser, or download Google Talk, which was a new GMail notifier. What’s the big deal? Just open the browser, or download Google Talk, which was a new GMail notifier.

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