Adventures with iGoogle

I’ve been experimenting with iGoogle a bit more lately as the default home or landing page for my browsers. I have a handful of interesting gadgets (more on those in a future post) and it generally works well for me. It has also been a refreshing change from Netvibes.

There’s one spot that Netvibes definitely

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Handling Ex-Employee Google Apps Email Accounts

Switching the company over to Google Apps last fall has been, for me at least, such a huge boon that I definitely have no regrets. It has, however, certainly introduced some “operational” impacts though. For instance, handling ex-employees and their mailboxes.

Now, in the MS Exchange era that we were previously in, this was a

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Send & Archive

Gmail Labs just announced another great addition: Send & Archive. Now when you reply to an email you could continue to click Send then archive the thread or (insert trumpet sounds) you can enable this one to do both with just one click.

As an email inbox neat freak, I love this. Anything that saves clicks

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Looking for A Windows Mobile Utility…

I’m a big fan of using my Windows Mobile phone and IMAP to keep current with my work email. Regardless of where I am, I always see my mail within 10 minutes — and that has been a real lifesaver a time or two.

However, there’s one huge drawback to the WinMo IMAP implementation: No real

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I’m Digging Digsby

A couple days ago I asked (via twitter) for advice on a simple IM client that would help me with my multiple Google Talk IDs. I mean, I know meebo would work but was hoping for something that doesn’t need as much screen space.

[Which reminds me: I wonder if the meebo Firefox sidebar add-on

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