Done Digging Digsby

Over a year and a half ago I announced that I was “digging Digsby” the multi-protocol instant messaging application. What wasn’t to love? It handled most instant messaging networks, Twitter, Facebook (added later) notifications and chat, along with some pretty solid email notification features as well. Oh, and all your settings are managed separately so

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Google Apps Mail Delegation

We’ve been using Google Apps Premier at work for a couple years now. Simply love it – and I’m still learning about features.

For instance, today I learned that Google Apps supports delegation in Gmail. Had a situation where folks needed access to co-worker’s account while she’s on leave. Now, traditionally she would have had to

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Tasks Leave Labs — Calendar Gets Labs

Some interesting announcements from Google today.

Google Tasks Leaves Labs

Google announced that Tasks is now a regular feature and no longer in Gmail Labs. That’s moving pretty fast for Google, isn’t it? Heck, it took years for Gmail itself to lose the Beta tag and Tasks has only been around for less than a year!

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Google Adds Tasks to Calendar

Back in December, Google added Tasks functionality to Google Mail. Tasks were a nice touch and easy to use, but a key piece was missing. Fortunately, that was fixed today with the announcement of Tasks for Calendar.

Tasks just got a lot more useful.

Not only can you display and manage your tasks from the Google Calendar,

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Perhaps the Best Gmail Labs Feature Yet: Add Photos

One of the first things I saw this morning was this tweet:

Hooray, Hallelujah and (*cough*) about time.

If there’s been a most requested feature from my corporate users, this would probably be the one.

Now granted, this doesn’t solve the “I want to paste a screen shot directly into an email” issue, but it is

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