Archive for September, 2004

Tom Yager has done an excellent job in presenting his views on the three devices. They are pretty impartial and give the reader a good sense of the units capabilities. Throwing in his own opinions and comparisons gives you the feeling that he has used these devices in the real world. Good job Tom!

I finally got a Gmail account. I don’t know why it’s such a big deal, I mean 1GB of storage space, mail threads, labeing much more… FOR FREE! I discovered a cool toolbar feature called Gmail Notifier (here) and installed it. Let’s me see when mail comes in (since Gmail is web based, I don’t need a browser open), and I can respond to mail links in web pages from an IE plug-in. This is pretty cool stuff…

I also found a program called GmailFS, I think, that lets someone with a Linux box set up a connection to use the Gmail account space as storage, basically creating a hosted offsite back up system. It might be cool to have a Linux box just to see this work.