This new email notifier for Gmail plays the popular You’ve got Mail sound alert every time there’s a new messages in your Gmail inbox.
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.
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.
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