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Bushido54
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....what is so great about it? If you already have one (or more) email accounts, why would you need or want G-mail?
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Why I use Gmail
I used to use my own domain for my personal e-mail. As it turned out, I wasn't using the domain for anything else, so I eventually decided to let the domain expire. Still, my personal e-mail needed to go somewhere... so I moved to Gmail.
In terms of general utility, Gmail is not that much different that having any other sort of web-based e-mail account -- I can check my mail from home or from work or from anywhere else I can get to the Internet.
Gmail gives me a gigabyte of storage for my e-mail messages, so I'm not encouraged to delete e-mails. I've been using Gmail since April 2004 and my space is only 15% full.
Messages in Gmail are also searchable, so I don't have to remember which labels I put on something in order to find old messages. I can search my e-mail easily and find things that might have taken a long time to track down by sorting and scrolling.
Labels, as opposed to folders, are a nice thing too. A message or conversation can have multiple labels associated with it, where most mail systems will only let a message live in one folder.
I see I've gone on longer than I intended, so I'll stop now. It's a neat-enough product, and a really cool web application, but if you have a mail system that works for you, feel free to stick with it.
I used to use my own domain for my personal e-mail. As it turned out, I wasn't using the domain for anything else, so I eventually decided to let the domain expire. Still, my personal e-mail needed to go somewhere... so I moved to Gmail.
In terms of general utility, Gmail is not that much different that having any other sort of web-based e-mail account -- I can check my mail from home or from work or from anywhere else I can get to the Internet.
Gmail gives me a gigabyte of storage for my e-mail messages, so I'm not encouraged to delete e-mails. I've been using Gmail since April 2004 and my space is only 15% full.
Messages in Gmail are also searchable, so I don't have to remember which labels I put on something in order to find old messages. I can search my e-mail easily and find things that might have taken a long time to track down by sorting and scrolling.
Labels, as opposed to folders, are a nice thing too. A message or conversation can have multiple labels associated with it, where most mail systems will only let a message live in one folder.
I see I've gone on longer than I intended, so I'll stop now. It's a neat-enough product, and a really cool web application, but if you have a mail system that works for you, feel free to stick with it.
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trishacupra
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Gmail Drive
With Gmail Drive you can use your 1Gb Gmail account as a sort of remote hard drive. http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
How cool is that?
With Gmail Drive you can use your 1Gb Gmail account as a sort of remote hard drive. http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
How cool is that?
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CosmoGTD
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Yikes, it looks like are starting to delete posts!! It appears someone deleted two of my posts about Gmail today!!
Gmail now has free Pop3 and SMTP access as well.
Here is the info again about Gmail invites for whoever wants them.
http://google.blogspace.com/archives/001556
isnoop.net's gmail invite spooler
http://isnoop.net/gmail/
Coz
Gmail now has free Pop3 and SMTP access as well.
Here is the info again about Gmail invites for whoever wants them.
http://google.blogspace.com/archives/001556
isnoop.net's gmail invite spooler
http://isnoop.net/gmail/
Coz