I won't say that Gmail isn't user-friendly itself but you can always spice things up to make it even more Fun and useful with Xoopit.

Xoopit is a FireFox extension that brings life to your Gmail inbox by providing you a cool way to view and browse all your images, videos,files and links buried in your email attachments.

To make itself even more interesting, Xoopit offers you to search your stuff instead of your messages. That means if you're looking for any specific picture or a file that somebody might have sent you a few months ago. Xoopit will filter around people or keyword and find the photos and files you're looking for.

It browses through your Gmail to find photos and videos from YouTube, Flickr, Shutterfly, Kodak and Picasa. Links sent to your Gmail account are automatically collected, saving you the hassle of going to these sites.

In addition to that, Xoopit allows you to do a web search while composing a mail in Gmail and add results directly to your message.

Note that when you sign up for Xoopit, it asks for your Gmail username and password so that it can index the photos, videos and files in your Gmail. Xoopit works like other mail clients connecting to Gmail, such as your desktop mail program or cell phone.

Key features of Xoopit

1. Browse photos & videos from Youtube, Flicr, Shutterfly, Kodak and Picasa
2. Easily find and access your files
3. Quick share to friends, Facebook or your blog
4. Search your stuff, not your messages

Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.