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For those that haven't seen it yet, my Compiler cohort has written up his experiences with the Google Life project -- [using only Google services for one month][1]. It's a fascinating read for those who've considered making the switch from desktop to web-based apps and to go along with it, I thought I'd post some Google app tricks, tips, and tweeks today.
The nerds among you are no doubt familiar with the Firefox extension [Greasemonkey][2], which allows custom Javascript to manipulate webpages. There's some great Greasemonkey scripts out there for GMail, but finding them all can be a pain.
To make it a little easier to add GMail Greasemonkey scripts to Firefox, Gina Trapani over at Lifehacker has collected the best of the bunch and make a cool Firefox plugin called [Better GMail][3].
Better GMail includes 14 different Greasemonkey scripts designed to make Gmail more useable. Standouts include conversation previews -- right click a conversation and get a preview of all the messages without leaving the current page -- and saved searches which uses a browser cookie to create a list of saved searches.
There's a whole bunch of good stuff in Better Gmail and if you're a heavy GMail user you'll appreciate the added workflow tools.
Note that you don't need to have Greasemonkey installed for this to work and if you do you may want to disable any overlapping scripts. I didn't have any problems in my testing, but just to be on the safe side I'd recommend getting rid of the standalone scripts if you already have them.
Also note that this extension doesn't seem to work with optimized builds of Firefox, but I've filed a bug on that so hopefully the problem will be fixed.
[1]: http://www.wired.com/software/softwarereviews/news/2007/04/lavidagoogle "Livin' la Vida Google: A Month-Long Dive Into Web-Based Apps"
[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 "Firefox Add-ons: Greasemonkey"
[3]: http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/lifehacker-code-better-gmail-firefox-extension-251923.php "Better Gmail Firefox extension"
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