How To Fix The Inbox
I’m notorious for the amount of email I receive and the difficulties I have keeping up with it. My best estimate is that I receive about 200-300 emails each day. On those few blessed occasions when I do get my inbox into single or double digits, I feel both enormously productive and focused. (Alas, the [...]
How to Sync your MyTouch 4G with your Outlook Contacts
I recently bought a MyTouch 4G Slide to use as my primary phone. Since I’m a T-Mobile customer, I wanted to lock in a new plan and phone before AT&T can do something to screw it up. And since I’m a physical keyboard enthusiast (I hate losing half the screen to the virtual keyboard–a big [...]
Google Account Craziness
I have been a long-time Google user. For example, I’m probably the only person in the world who signed up for Blogger in 2001 who is still using it as their primary blogging platform. When Gmail came out, I lobbied for early access so I could make sure I got my name (thanks Hunter!). PBworks [...]
Gmail’s Most Ridiculous, Idiotic, Intrusive, Useless Feature Ever. Google Apps, Too.
Google keeps on coming up with new features at a rapid pace, some making it to adulthood soon, others stuck in “labs” mode forever, some we like, other’s less so – to each their own. But I’ve never thought the day would come I would write the words utterly ridiculous, iditiotic, intrusive, with absolute certainly [...]
New Gmail Scam making the rounds
Again with the warnings: do not click on that link or reply to that email a new Gmail scam is making the rounds today. Don’t give out your e-mail information, including user name and password. The e-mail contains this text: We are shutting down some accounts due to congestion in our database system and your [...]
Learn From the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)
A few hundred thousand (numbers range from 150k to 500K) Gmail and Google Apps users had the scary experience of losing ALL their email content yesterday. Their account was accidentally “reset”. Google acknowledged the error, and issued a statement that they are working on restoring “lost” content. Let’s stop and think here a minute. Is [...]
Email as the Problem or Email as the Solution?
Email is getting quite a bad reputation, in fact Atos Origin (a large consulting and outsourcing company) is pledging to be a zero email company within three years! Bertrand Duperrin wrote up a great post on this examining whether or not this realistic. This post however is not about whether or not we could or [...]
Advertising – paying for our free(mium) world for how long?
Ads – no wiki definition needed this time I think. I recommended TweetCaster to Thijs Muis the other day, for Android, and the first thing he said after installing it was: @MartijnLinssen has ads! Not my app so far, but @tweetdeck isn’t the best either. I don’t see ads anymore. Well maybe I see them, [...]
Can We Take Availability Off Cloud Concerns List?
One of the concerns cited by people who believe in traditional ways of computing is the issue of service availability in the public clouds. For reasons known only to psychiatrists, they associate availability to the presence of the software inside their organizational boundaries. If we talk to enterprise users who use email system hosted on-premise, [...]
Letting Enterprise Users Live In Harmon.ie
Yesterday at the GigaOm Net:work event, one of the Launchpad finalists was an interesting company called Harmon.ie (known as Mainsoft since 1993 and see Ben’s previous coverage here). The event itself was focussed on how collaboration happens today and how we will work in the future using the newer technologies that are pushing the envelope [...]
Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!
In the 90’s I used to laugh at friends who all used Yahoo! as their personal email service. I did not understand how anyone could put up with the slow speeds of web-mail, and tried to convince them to install a decent email client, like Outlook, which is what most of them used in their [...]
Dear Google, Google Apps Standard Users Are Not Freeloaders
I am a long time Google Apps Standard Edition user. I can be considered as one of their power users because I not only test all their beta and labs features but also do it on more than 10 different accounts due to my association with various business and non-business organizations in different parts of [...]
GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth… in Search of Revenue.
I’ve been long-time Gmail fan, having used it from the very early days, for almost 5 years now. The key reasons why I switched and have stuck with the service ever since were the productivity boosters, first of all: Threaded conversations Labels Search Google did to email what all new product teams should: throw away [...]
Increased Security for Google Apps But They Have Another Problem at Hand
Google today announced a two step verification process during Google Apps login which will help increase the security of organization’s data. Two-step verification is easy to set up, manage and use. When enabled by an administrator, it requires two means of identification to sign in to a Google Apps account, something you know: a password, [...]
Google Push Notification For iPhone: Does It Matter For iPhone Users?
Google yesterday updated its Google Mobile app by adding push notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar. The idea is to notify the users about new mail or calendar events through push notifications on top of Google Mobile app and when the users click to view them, they will be taken to the web interface of Gmail [...]
