never thought i'd be a fanboy

August 2, 2006 under Computers, Google, Internet

I use Google as my search engine of choice, and have done so for many years now. I use Google Maps to find driving directions and locations of places that I need to go to for the first time. I’ve wasted many moments of my life seeing what I can see with Google Earth. I’ve even coded some stuff using their Maps API. For the most part I’ve, to some degree, used any number of their plethora of offerings. However one set of duties I haven’t entrusted Google with is my email. That is, until now.

A few months back, Google offered a beta program for people with registered domains (like myself with chrisbellini.com). All that needed to be done was for me to point my MX record away from my webhost and towards a Google server . 10-15 minutes later, the record is updated and Google is now my email host. I still use Mozilla Thunderbird on my desktop at home. Now, though, my email is accessable from anywhere. Well, it was before via Squirrel Mail, which is adequate. However, Squirrel Mail isn’t in the same league as Google‘s Gmail interface and features. I love that Calendar is integrated; now Dena and I can synchronize our tasks and errands that we have to do. And with the integrated Google Talk, we can easily blast each other quick messages while we’re at work.

I’m making myself sick with all of my fanatacism, but Google just made my life easier.

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2 Responses to "never thought i'd be a fanboy"

  • barry says:

    That is pretty slick. Do you get the 2 gigs that gmail gets too? Do you use a google smtp to send?

  • Chris says:

    Yup, I have 2GB worth of storage and I’ve configured Thunderbird to use Google’s POP3 and SMTP servers for sending and receiving. I’ve figured out how I can sync my Google Calendar with Outlook 2007 Beta 2, but my goal is to get to work with Lightning for Thunderbird. It’s iCalendar-based, so it should probably work smoothly with iCal on OS X.

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