My explorations of google services, coupled with the timely release of their pop retrieval mechanism means that Google Mail and Google Reader are looking rather attractive. I have just taken the step of turning NetNewsWire and Apple Mail off for a few days to see how it goes. Now that I am using more than one machine it is nice to have synchronized mail and RSS. Google Mail is very slick and just sucks up all the email from my different accounts into a single easy to manage location. It also has the advantage of not being slowed down by large quantities of email - unlike Apple Mail which can be treacle slow at times. Google reader is very nice too - it manages to be free of the things that irritated me about other online services and have an almost desktop like slickness. It is actually nicer than NetNewsWire in one or two places as well.
All this means two less applications running on the desk top as well so my system is a little faster too.Of course the only catch is when I loose my internet connection I loose my RSS backlog.
Posted by Mark at January 5, 2007 11:51 AMHi
I have been toying with Google Reader for a while now, I'm not quite convinced yet but I'm getting there. It's probably due the this customers pook internet connection.
I'm intreagued by your GMail comments. I have just signed up but I cannot see a way of "sucking up" mail from other accounts. Can you shed some light please?
Ross
Hi,
It is under accounts/settings:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=21288
I think that this is quite a new feature and is being rolled out bit by bit. I was lucky enough for it to show up the day after I looked for it.
Reader is a bit slow when bandwidth is constrained but it is still hanging in there as my main RSS reader
Posted by: mark at January 10, 2007 01:32 PMArgh, it's not there, they are obviously only rolling it out to selected users. Oh well, I can but wait.
Posted by: Ross Goodman at January 10, 2007 09:52 PM