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Are Desktop Email Clients a Dying Breed?
Apr 8th
Although the current generation of Internet users may not believe it, email has not always been web-based like it is today. Desktop email clients used to be the only method for accessing email. One of the more popular free email clients from back in the day was Mozilla’s Mail and News. After Firefox was spun off of Mozilla, the Mail and News app followed suit and Thunderbird was born. Given the widespread use of web-based email these days, are desktop email clients a dying breed?
Preview YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp in Gmail with New Gmail Labs Features
Mar 19th
The best web-based email client just got even better, thanks to the wonders of the various innovative features available in Gmail Labs, Google’s testing ground for experimental Gmail features. Once configured, Gmail will display previews of YouTube videos, Picasa and Flickr photographs and Yelp listings directly in an email when using the web-based Gmail interface.
Google Releases iPhone Over-The-Air Sync Capability, Is MobileMe Obsolete?
Feb 10th
Have you yearned for far better integration between your beloved iPhone and Google account? Fear not, because Google has rescued us Google addicts today by releasing one of the most highly sought after features to cure those of us obsessed with both the iPhone and Google products – over-the-air synchronization for both Google Contacts and Google Calendar.
Google announced the immediate availability of the capability to synchronize your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with your iPhone, as well as just about any mobile device supporting Microsoft Exchange or SyncML synchronization. Over-the-air sync has been a longstanding feature of the wildly popular BlackBerry devices and was introduced on the iPhone with the release of MobileMe late last year.
RSS – Your World Consolidated
Feb 1st
TechMiso has been trucking along solid for a month now since its launch January 1st, 2009. Along with a modest bump in traffic, we’re seeing solid readership and thoughtful commentary from the folks who have joined us so far.
The foreseeable future promises no let up on tech talk either. With access to mind blowing numbers of news outlets each day, the difficult [but fun] assignment of choosing topics grows exponentially. Here enters RSS-
Confessions of a Google Addict – Where Is My Google Dashboard?
Jan 5th
They say the first step to realizing you’re addicted to something is to admit you have an addiction. To recognize you may have a problem. So here I am, on this faithful Monday evening, confessing I have a healthy addiction to Google’s online products.
Let me explain.
Waaaaay back in the day, on April 1, 2004, when Google originally published their press release regarding Gmail, announcing the company was testing a preview release of their web-based email product I was ecstatic. The holy grail had arrived – Google, our saviour, to rescue us from the evil web-based email providers has surely devised a far superior product, right?
At the time, I was a long time opponent of web-based email. I despised how Microsoft, Yahoo! and others riddled their products with huge and obnoxious advertisements. Suddenly a new thrill was thrown down my spine at the thought of a new web-based email system which did not append “crap” to every email sent, nor were users disturbed with unwieldy advertising on every page.
It sounded like heaven so I sought out a mission to grab a Gmail account and be part of the “in crowd” at the time. I was lucky, got my account and the rest, as they say, is history. Ever since Gmail was released I have faithfully awaited Google to release new, useful web-based products which can be used to dislodge me from my local workstation and move me to the cloud. Each time Google released a new piece of the cloud puzzle, I was there to jump on top of the offering and adopt it like the fanboy I am.
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