Technology to make you Google

Open Office.org could completely outdo MS Office in terms of functionality
Click to expand...

Mmmm, although I really like OpenOffice, I don't see this happening anytime soon.
 
um, what exactly is the point of this article? Gmail is the next big thing? It's been around for ages already in computer terms. To get people to use it more. I agree, more people should use Gmail. Just make sure you have an offline back-up plan. Fortunately Google is making one available, I'm trialing it now... but I also have my own backup plan. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone else that is using Google for my domain as that is the next route I want to go. A lot of our staff use Gmail as we don't host our own mail server (we're not a big company). Google for my domain may give me more control over our company e-mail.
 
Garyvdh said:
um, what exactly is the point of this article? Gmail is the next big thing? It's been around for ages already in computer terms. To get people to use it more. I agree, more people should use Gmail. Just make sure you have an offline back-up plan. Fortunately Google is making one available, I'm trialing it now... but I also have my own backup plan. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone else that is using Google for my domain as that is the next route I want to go. A lot of our staff use Gmail as we don't host our own mail server (we're not a big company). Google for my domain may give me more control over our company e-mail.
Click to expand...

My thoughts too, I thought the article was going to speculate on the next big thing, not what was big (and still is big). As for the offline backup plan, why bother? If you don't have internet connectivity, you're not getting emails anyway. If you're looking for google to work on your own domain, check out Google Apps
 
eltherza said:
My thoughts too, I thought the article was going to speculate on the next big thing, not what was big (and still is big). As for the offline backup plan, why bother? If you don't have internet connectivity, you're not getting emails anyway. If you're looking for google to work on your own domain, check out Google Apps
Click to expand...

Ja, I hear you about the incoming e-mails... but sometimes you just want to go and search through old e-mail for something that was sent a year ago. Plus in South Africa we are still subject to frequent outages (our ADSL at the office has been faulty since January 22nd).. it is nice in those cases to still be able to compose and read e-mail, then wait until it comes back online to send.
 
This article is like one of those threads that end up being completely different compared to the original post.
 
Garyvdh said:
Ja, I hear you about the incoming e-mails... but sometimes you just want to go and search through old e-mail for something that was sent a year ago. Plus in South Africa we are still subject to frequent outages (our ADSL at the office has been faulty since January 22nd).. it is nice in those cases to still be able to compose and read e-mail, then wait until it comes back online to send.
Click to expand...

Have you tried using GMail's POP and SMTP functionality? This works well for me, and gives me a local (offline) copy on my laptop as well as an online copy on GMail. Unlike other POP email services, GMail doesn't delete mail you have downloaded, so it's still available online too.
 
Garyvdh said:
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone else that is using Google for my domain as that is the next route I want to go. A lot of our staff use Gmail as we don't host our own mail server (we're not a big company). Google for my domain may give me more control over our company e-mail.
Click to expand...

I use Google Apps on some domains very successfully. I've decided against using it for my primary business domain simply because I prefer to have that hosted in SA. Presumably you are thinking about doing this for an existing domain. If not, just don't register your domain through Google, as I found out after doing this that you can't move the domain away from Google Apps if you registered it through them.
 
I dunno about you guys, but I'm nervous entrusting personal data to others, especially when every word is indexed, stored, shadowed, cached, and backed up multiple times. The last thing I want is all my emails 'n stuff perpetually available to Google and governments. Even if you delete everything, nothing is ever really deleted. I'm seriously thinking of no longer using Google as a search engine...

Edit: (pressed Save before finishing)

Just as I want to get off the national grid for power, and off the minsipaal for water, so the Next Big Thing for me is to wean myslef off Google. It's scary when a corporation controls so much data on millions of people.
 
Last edited:
internetless said:
Have you tried using GMail's POP and SMTP functionality? This works well for me, and gives me a local (offline) copy on my laptop as well as an online copy on GMail. Unlike other POP email services, GMail doesn't delete mail you have downloaded, so it's still available online too.
Click to expand...

That is how I am currently backing it up to two other computers. I also have another e-mail account at www.inbox.com and I forward important e-mails there as well also for backup purposes. :)
 
internetless said:
I use Google Apps on some domains very successfully. I've decided against using it for my primary business domain simply because I prefer to have that hosted in SA. Presumably you are thinking about doing this for an existing domain. If not, just don't register your domain through Google, as I found out after doing this that you can't move the domain away from Google Apps if you registered it through them.
Click to expand...

Ja, it was registered elsewhere... and the e-mail addresses we currently have are set to auto-forward to our existing Gmail addresses.
 
Arthur said:
I dunno about you guys, but I'm nervous entrusting personal data to others, especially when every word is indexed, stored, shadowed, cached, and backed up multiple times. The last thing I want is all my emails 'n stuff perpetually available to Google and governments. Even if you delete everything, nothing is ever really deleted. I'm seriously thinking of no longer using Google as a search engine...

Edit: (pressed Save before finishing)

Just as I want to get off the national grid for power, and off the minsipaal for water, so the Next Big Thing for me is to wean myslef off Google. It's scary when a corporation controls so much data on millions of people.
Click to expand...

Are you also going to stop paying taxes, property rates and keep your money under your mattress? :)

You would be surprised how much info the government and your bank have on you.... and who has access to that info.

Have you ever seen the movie Conspiracy Theory? ;)
 
internetless said:
.. If not, just don't register your domain through Google, as I found out after doing this that you can't move the domain away from Google Apps if you registered it through them.
Click to expand...
"Do No Evil"? Can you imagine the anti-trust lawsuits, EU sanctions, and howls of protest if Microsoft did the same. Who do these people think they are?
 
Garyvdh said:
Are you also going to stop paying taxes, property rates and keep your money under your mattress? :)

You would be surprised how much info the government and your bank have on you.... and who has access to that info.

Have you ever seen the movie Conspiracy Theory? ;)
Click to expand...
1) No, the guavamint already has a gun to our heads, so police guns and government violence force us to pay whether we use their services or not.

2) I'm not surprised or even astonished. It's scary stuff.

3) Yes. However, I'm not a conspiratorialist by any means; indeed, rather the opposite.
 
Life, taxes, privacy and everything else is truely just something to keep us busy otherwise our 70years or so on earth would be damm boring. Does it really matter if everyone can google your id number and underwear pictures?
 
Vegeta said:
Life, taxes, privacy and everything else is truely just something to keep us busy otherwise our 70years or so on earth would be damm boring. Does it really matter if everyone can google your id number and underwear pictures?
Click to expand...
Perhaps. But only the paranoid are concerned about ID number and underwear pics. I guess you've never studied the Soviet and Nazi show trials, or followed the tactics of today's totalitarians? It's all hunkydory until the Dictatorship comes, and tyranny rules. History has a lesson or two.

But we digress.

Back to OmniGoogle:
 
Arthur said:
I guess you've never studied the Soviet and Nazi show trials, or followed the tactics of today's totalitarians?...
Click to expand...
And you have? You must be extremely bored :D

Arthur said:
It's all hunkydory until the Dictatorship comes, and tyranny rules. History has a lesson or two.

But we digress.

Back to OmniGoogle:
Click to expand...

Agreed dick-tatorship sucks :( But atleast the rest of the world can google us and realize we need help if it comes to that :p
 
Vegeta said:
And you have? You must be extremely bored :D



Agreed dick-tatorship sucks :( But atleast the rest of the world can google us and realize we need help if it comes to that :p
Click to expand...

*coughs..... and the rest of the world will help us like they helped Zimbabwe?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X