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CheckGmail is an alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux and other *nix systems. It is fast, secure and uses minimal bandwidth via the use of Atom feeds. CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail account for new mail. When new mail is present the tray icon changes, an optional animated popup is displayed and a tooltip displays the number and details of new messages. Configuration is GUI-based and the application is designed to be simple, elegant and unobtrusive.

Mediawiki is the software used by the popular Wikipedia. It allows humans very easily to create, maintain and improve documents in shared environments. One of the strengths of the software is that the content is seperated from the layout. This means that the source of a document/page/article specifies the structure of the information, but usually not how the information is finally rendered in the browser.

Tk is a GUI toolkit developed by John Ousterhout, initially as a Tcl extension, to facilitate the creation of graphical user interfaces. Since then, it has grown in popularity, and as a result has been ported to many different languages. Nick Ing-Simmons ported Tk to Perl, giving us Perl/Tk.