Not quite, but maybe. 

If you are like me, you have an abundance of web-based email accounts.  I have had too many email accounts to count but still use GMail, Hotmail & Yahoo frequently.  It is tedious to check all of these accounts with any consistancy, so messages often do not get responded to in a timely manner.

So, I set out to find a way to pick up all of my mail in one location. 

What I found was IzyMail, a free web-based email forwarding service.  In a nutshell, IzyMail acts as an intermediary between your web-based email and then translates/forwards the emails in a standardized format.  Fortunately, GMail is more standards based than other webmail providers and offers both POP and IMAP, so I can point my GMail account to the IzyMail server to get access to my Yahoo and Hotmail accounts.  Instructions for doing this can be found, here. 

The caveat, however, is that for this to work, IzyMail must have your webmail username/password.  This may be a deal breaker for many people.  For me, I don't have anything particularly interesting coming through email anyway, so I am not particularly worried.  The benefit, for me, outweighs the danger.

There is an additional benefit for iGoogle-ers that have added the GMail module.  With GMail gathering all of your email for you in one location, you are able to view all of your email directly from your iGoogle start page!

GMail is my account ruling them all!

于是好奇的跑去注册，想了一堆7位数字竟然都被注册了，比如

3141592  Pi的前7位

1415926  Pi小数点后7位

2718281  e的前7位

7182818  e小数点后7位

5201314  额，不用说了吧

5201315  这个都有，我汗。。

1346269 斐波那契数列中最小的7位数，f(31)

最后终于被我注册到的是这个：

9227465@gmail.com 大家猜猜是啥？

就是斐波那契数列中最大的7位数，f(35)

最后附上求斐波那契数列第n个数的Python程序：

def fib(n):
    if n==0:
        return 0
    fibls=[0]*(n+1)
    fibls[0]=0
    fibls[1]=1
    for i in range(2,n+1):
        fibls[i]=fibls[i-1]+fibls[i-2]
    return fibls[n]

Ugh.

I just got locked out of my Gmail account. How terribly inconvenient. I had seen reviews about Gmail Drive in several places stating how it enables your computer to send your files to your Gmail since each account allows quite a bit of storage. Silly me. I was not aware it apparently violates Gmail's Terms of Service and as a result, have been officially "locked down."

When I try to login, it reads:

Account Lockdown: Unusual Activity Detected

Unusual account activity includes, but is not limited to:

Receiving, deleting, or downloading large amounts of mail via POP in a short period of time.
Sending a large number of undeliverable messages (messages that bounce back).
Using file-sharing or file-storage software, browser extensions, or third party software that automatically logs in to your account.
Leaving multiple instances of your Gmail account open.
Browser-related issues. Please note that if you find your browser continually reloading while attempting to access your Inbox, it’s probably a browser issue, and it may be necessary to clear your browser’s cache and cookies.
If you feel that you have been using your Gmail account according to the Gmail Terms of Use, you can troubleshoot your problem by clicking here.

So an easy way to put it - Do NOT use Gmail Drive... there's no use for it if it can't even back up your files without screwing you.

Now you wondering, what does this really change about vanillabomb? And I'll be truthful, it doesn't change anything except that I find it cool to be able to send mail with the handle "@vanillabomb.com."

Below are the e-mails for both vanillahead and I. Definitely send us emails about comments, concerns, or whatever you have on your mind. It would be great to hear from you.

soybomb@vanillabomb.com

vanillabomb@vanillabomb.com

By Yi-Wyn Yen

While Google struggles to sell Google Apps, its web-based version of Microsoft Office and Outlook e-mail, to large corporations, it has found success with young entrepreneurs. Each day 6,000 businesses are signing up for Google Apps, and more than 10 million office workers are using the company's office suite, according to Matthew Glotzbach, the product management director for Google Enterprise.

The adoption is driven by Generation Y entrepreneurs like Aida Mollenkamp and Noah Starr, two twentysomething cohosts who feature Gmail on the Food Network's new interactive show "Ask Aida." Then there's young business owners like Robert Khoo, a 28-year-old from Seattle. Khoo is the president of operations for Penny Arcade Expo, a three-day confab in Seattle for 55,000 video game enthusiasts that is sponsored by big corporations like Microsoft (MSFT), Electronic Arts, and Activision Blizzard.

Khoo says Google Apps has helped the company scale the conference, which has doubled in size every year since 2004. Khoo and his coworkers used to use a large whiteboard to plan the gaming conference as they found it a better alternative than e-mailing a single Microsoft Excel back and forth.

But he says, “You couldn’t work on it when you were traveling. There was no real-time data." Khoo switched to Google spreadsheets last June. “We needed something where everyone can collaborate at the same time and track changes. This has completely changed the way we do business.”

Though Google doesn't track the demographics of Google Apps users, company executives say a Web 2.0 savvy generation is a major growth market. They insist that young trendsetters who grow up on Internet-based consumer products like Twitter, Facebook, and iChat, expect similar tools in the workplace. Gmail can turn an e-mail into a chat session when the other person is online and Google Docs allows multiple users to collaborate on files at the same time.

Google (GOOG) has barely made a dent in the office software market since launching Google Apps 18 months ago. The company earned $4 million from Google Apps compared to Microsoft Office's $12.2 billion in 2007, according to research firm Gartner. But Google is banking that the Gen Y workforce who want more web-based solutions will help the company close the gap. "We're not waiting 15 to 20 years. The generation of new [office apps] users is already here," says Glotzbach.

Not everyone has faith that Gen Y office workers and business owners will dramatically shake Microsoft from its strong grip on the desktop software market.

"Google will get some bump from a younger generation coming into the workforce, but I don't think that will switch things as broadly as Google thinks," says Burton Group analyst Guy Creese. "Google is saying, cloud computing is the way of the future and software is dead. But it's not like companies have been making stupid decisions for the past 20 years. That's too binary of a view."

1. Porque quem vai para este tipo de produtos não sabe no que se está a meter.
2. Quando é uma empresa em forte expansão quando começam a ver os 0.18*(~10000 users) cêntimos mensais a fugir do bolso começam a pensar em cancelar o serviço.
3. Quando pensam em cancelar o serviço tem de fazer migração de tudo, lá vem o trabalho(custo) de manter todos os users dentro dos mesmos padrões anteriores.
4. Tempo de migração.

Isto pode ser bom para PME's com poucos funcionários que não pretendem ter trabalho a falar com qualquer técnico. Claro que suporte ao pc local está fora do objectivo de fornecer estes serviços.

Pre-coffee this morning, I'm checkin' my email doing my morning warm-up.. Perez, Facebook, etc. etc... until:

"You have sent 291 invitations to GoodReads!"

Fuck! Cancelcancelcancel.

Seriously, If you use this site you can see how it was possible for me to have sent an invitation out to everyone in my Gmail contacts .. but, just a heads up, it was an accident.  Whoops!  But while we're at it.. why not recommend some books to me.. I am reading teen vampire stories, so maybe this was divine intervention..

Si ya tienen Firefox y les interesa alguna extensión, solo sigan el link que les dejo. Sin mas, procedo a enumerar mi Top5:

1. Gmail Manager: Una interesante aplicación que nos informa cuando nos llega un mail mediante un pequeño icono. Indispensable cuando se trabaja con varias tabs en simultaneo.
2. Download Statusbar: Lo malo de Firefox es esa barra de descargas, es grande y molesta. Esta extension soluciona el problema con creces.
3. Google Preview: Una herramienta que pone junto a los resultados de nuestras busquedas en Google una pequeña imagen en miniatura de como se ve el sitio.
4. Cooliris (AKA: Piclens): Navegador de Imagenes 3D, una recomendacion directa de bliio muy util a la hora de navegar grandes galerías de fotos (ej: Facebook).
5. Foxy Tunes: Nunca les molesta tener que cambiar de aplicaciones para cambiar el tema que toco en itunes/winamp/etc? Solucion encontrada. Este pequeño controlador se instala, casi invisible, en la barra de estado y es compatible con un sinfin de reproductores.

Espero no haberlos aburrido mucho pero mi naturaleza geek me demandaba este post.

It turns out that this is a known problem with the Gmail for Mobile application, but the fix is simple.

Go into the Gmail for Mobile App settings (on my phone it was in Menu > Go to > Settings), and uncheck the box that says "Always keep me signed in".

Then make sure you select the option that says "Always use secure network connections (slower performance)" by enabling the check box beside that option.

Select "Save", then Menu > Exit Gmail.

Now you can restart the Gmail App, sign in using your username and password, and re-select the option in the menu to keep you logged in (Menu > Go to > Settings, and then put a check mark in the box that says "Always keep me signed in").

Since I made these changes I haven't had any problems, and I haven't noticed that the connection is any slower over my EDGE connection than it was before.

GMail-Drive

Med udvidelsen GMail-Drive bruger jeg min GMail som en ekstra on-line harddisk, hvor jeg gemmer ex filer som jeg vil have adgang til selvom jeg ikke har adgang fra min egen pc. I princippet sender jeg en e-mail til mig selv hvor jeg har vedhæftet filen jeg vil gemme...en længere proces som kan gøres hurtigere.

...En af fordelene ved GMail-Drive er TID :
Jeg slipper for at skulle igennem at åbne gmail, skrive ny mail, vedhæfte fil og sende mailen til mig selv.

Hvordan ?

• Højreklik på filen eller filerne
• Vælg "Send til"
• Vælg "GMail-drive"
• Evt. Login med GMail-adresse + Password
• Bling...kort efter er der mail med filen/filerne i Gmail-indbakke.

Gmail har et maximum mht fil-størrelse på omkring 20 MB - dvs at mailen kan godt indeholde flere filer men den enkelte fil må ikke være større end omk 20 MB (har læst men ikke testet at det kan lykkes med større filer). Evt exe.filer skal være zippet først.

...I min pc er GMail-Drive et ekstra drev, som jeg kan arbejde med som de øvrige drev i min Stifinder - forskellen er at i GMail-Drive arbejder jeg i virkeligheden on-line i min Gmail og det går lidt langsommere.

Ex:

• Jeg kan oprette mapper i lighed med øvrige drev på pc'en
• Se hvilke filer jeg har sendt til min GMail
• Kopiere eller flytte filerne ind på min alm. harddrive (derved bliver det en nem on-line backup)
• Kopiere eller flytte filer fra pc til GMail direkte ... med samme resultat som ovenstående metode;)
• Se hvor meget jeg bruger af min GMail-plads

GMail-Drive kan hentes her : http://www.pcworld.dk/download/36/1475

My work does zero spam filtering on the server level. This annoys me to no end because I've had the same work email address since 1999. Back before spam had hit full force. Before I realized not to give my email address out when signing up for every little thing...... OK I'm back from my rant. But to say the least about 75% of my email is spam. I've tried several times to get the IT department to see the value of postini but it's lost. Even though Google has great non-profit pricing.... OK I'm back from that rant too.

So here's what I do. I forward my work email account to a gmail account I setup. In gmail I turned on IMAP. You'll need to setup your gmail account as an other account using IMAP, not as a gmail account on the iPhone. This means that when I check my email in one place (gmail on the web, Apple Mail, or iPhone Mail), whatever changes are made in all places. So I don't have to wade through the same emails in Mail and my iPhone. Google has a great spam filter. I saw my spam drop from 75 emails a day to 1 or 2.

Now here's the tricky part. I want my email sent from my gmail account to look like it was sent from my work account. In gmail preferences online you can turn on aliasing, and enter your work address. On the iPhone you just change your email address under IMAP account information. Tada it's internet magic!

I do have a media related post coming later today.

Per sfruttare al meglio Gmail, l'account di posta gratuito fornito da Google, abbiamo bisogno di Firefox, il browser per navigare in internet e di un suo componente aggiuntivo. I componenti aggiuntivi sono estensioni, plug-in o temi grafici che consentono di ampliare le funzionalità del programma su cui vengono installate. Per Firefox sono disponibili numerosi componenti aggiuntivi tutti gratuiti.

Uno di questi è appunto in grado di riservare ben 2 Gb dello spazio offerto da Gmail (attualmente 7 Gb) come spazio disco per conservare e trasferire file, ascoltare musica o sfogliare album fotografici.

L'estensione si chiama Gspace ed è scaricabile da questo sito che dovrete aprire con Firefox: http://www.getgspace.com/download.html

Una volta scelto il vostro sistema operativo, si aprirà una finestra per l'installazione dei componenti aggiuntivi. Attendete qualche secondo, quindi cliccare su Installa adesso.

Terminata l'installazione vi verrà chiesto di riavviare Firefox. A questo punto potete accedere allo spazio on-line dal menu Strumenti/Gspace.

Si aprirà una finestra di gestione simile a quella di un programma FTP e divisa in 4 aree:

La prima area in alto a sinistra è il contenuto del vostro pc; la seconda in alto a destra rappresenta invece il contenuto dello spazio Gmail che avete a disposizine, inizialmente vuoto.

Basta scegliere nella finestra a sinistra i file che volete trasferire su Gmail (browse), quindi cliccare sulla freccia tra le due finestre rivolta a destra per caricarli nel web.
Nella finestra in basso verrà riportato lo stato dei file durante la procedura di trasferimento. Potete anche modificare la dimensione di tutte le finestre trascinando con il mouse i bordi segnalati da piccole freccette nere e chiudere del tutto la finestra con il banner pubblicitario (come in foto).

Prima di effettuare qualunque trasferimento però è necessario loggarsi al proprio account Gmail precedentemente impostandolo tramite il bottone 'Manage accounts'.

Nel link seguente potete trovate una guida in flash passo passo su come avviare lo spazio Gmail: http://www.getgspace.com/howitworks.html

E' possibile caricare dei file audio ed ascoltarli tramite il player incorporato in Gspace scegliendo dal menu a cascata che si trova vicino alla voce ‘inbox', la modalità: player mode.
Se invece volete visualizzare la vostra collezione di foto, utilizzate l'opzione 'photo mode'.

Questo spazio web può essere usato, ad esempio, per avere ovunque disponibile o per trasferire da un luogo all'altro, i nostri documenti, il curriculum, i programmi essenziali, ecc. E' sufficiente avere una connessione internet, un account Gmail e Firefox con l'estensione giusta, ed è come se avessimo una chiavetta USB da 2Gb sempre in tasca.