Syncing Your Contacts from Gmail to Thunderbird

At the office I’m forced to use Outlook as my main communication and scheduling tool. Outlook gets a lot of bad raps and while at one time I’m sure most of it was justified, nowadays it really isn’t that bad of a product - at least Outlook 2007. However, that doesn’t mean I use it [...]

Get More Productivity in Google Calendar

It’s a Google world and we’re just living in it. Well, not really I suppose but can any of you really imagine going through your day without Google? Just this week, the Google Android phone launched on T-Mobile, the G1. Lacking any sort of desktop sync application, Android instead relies on syncing from the cloud [...]

Enable Canned Responses for Quick Gmail Replies

Gmail’s Labs, the testing ground for “not quite ready for prime time” functionality for Gmail, engineers have rolled out their latest feature - canned responses. If you are a heavy email user you’ve likely encountered a subset of mail that warrants the same response. If you’ve said it once, you’ve said it a hundred times [...]

Launching Gmail in Firefox from mailto Links

Firefox 3 has brought about a whole slew of new features and abilities, one of them is being able to register webapps as link handlers. What is a link handler? In this example, when a web user clicks an email address a properly configured computer will open the default email program with the clicked email [...]

How Gmail Killed the Thunderbird

I’d just like to say that by now, everyone that has wanted to toy around with Gmail already have and the rest continue to have some strange attachment to Hotmail. The hype has dissipated; mainly because all its competitors have copied the copious amounts of storage space previously unheard of until Mr. Google decided it should be so. If for no other reason than this, Google has redefined the world’s expectations of what a free webmail service must offer.

I keep all my email, always have. It’s amazing when some seemingly random and unimportant email becomes anything but seven months later. I don’t proclaim to be special but over the decade I have accumulated tens of thousands of email. Searching for that one address or phone number of a long lost contact took awhile in Mozilla Thunderbird, a long long while. Gmail accomplishes this same feat in 2.3 pico-seconds. I timed it - I wouldn’t lie to you.