I was looking at our Spam filter stats, and it is awe-inspiring at how much junk we get each day. I genuinely believe we can blame the Spam problem on the creators of telemarketing and direct mail as I see these invasive techniques are the grandparents of the modern day spammer. Will the increasing levels of Spam cause a decline in e-mail usage as people opt for other methods of communication that are less prone to Spam or will the…
I came across a good article on Lifehacker comparing Gmail and Outlook. If you are considering making the jump from Outlook to Gmail, you should take a few minutes and give it a read. Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparison Over the last couple of months I have moved my personal e-mail to a Google Apps account (this allowed me to keep my custom domain e-mail address) from Outlook. Overall it has been a pleasant transition but not without a few…
It has been a couple weeks since I have started my tests of the Google application suite. I really had a great time testing and playing with several of the applications that Google has to offer. The vast majority of applications I found to be well-developed, functional, and user friendly. A few applications are bit feature poor and are still at a “beta” level. Google Apps: Google Apps consist of an e-mail client, calendar, office productivity software, and a web…
One of the benefits of looking at online document solutions, like Google Docs, is the shifting of responsibility of backup and archival to a third party. In my corporate life, I have yet to embrace the concept outsourced backup…call it ultimate paranoia. This, however, is off topic so back to Google Docs. One of the first things I noticed with Google Docs was the lack of an easy way to upload multiple documents. The site directly supports uploading of individual…