Hosted GMail Review

May 24th, 2006

Months ago I submitted my email address requesting an invitation to the hosted GMail beta. Hoping to move the email for my domain and the few users I have over to google mail’s hosting. Around the same time, I forwarded my work and personal email to my GMail account and it has been the nexus […]


GMail’s Keyboard Shortcuts

March 12th, 2006

One of the basic tenents of a good user-interface is learnability or discoverabilty (I’m sure that’s a made-up word.) Everything should be laid out in an easy to learn way. The problem with the keyboard shortcuts in Gmail is exactly this. Every time I want to try and use the keyboard to do something, I […]


Google Reader, Mail and Talk

February 9th, 2006

Recently I changed my email and RSS subscriptions from Thunderbird to GMail and Google Reader. I’ve been really happy with how most of this works, except for the default from address which isn’t a show-stopper but it is annoying. So I’m pretty happy with the inclusion of Gtalk in GMail. I tested it a bit […]


Gmail Improvement

January 27th, 2006

The one thing that gets on my nerves the most about gmail is that it doesn’t remember which email address of yours was participating in the conversation. I have my work and personal address attached to gmail and my work is the default one, but if I reply to someone that sent me an email […]