Why GMail instead of EMail?

Security, power, access capability, intergration, and user friendliness are all pertinent to the title question. Are you having trouble with spam? Here's your answer. Need to keep all your messages? Here's your answer. Need to access your messages when at home, on a trip, etc? Here's your answer. GMail has revolutionized the way netizens receive their primary mode of text communication. The spam filter alone is worth the 20 minutes or so it takes to set up an account.

Being an early tester of this product helped my decision to support this great service. It virtually flew without problems from the getgo. During the past few years my account storage space has increased from 1 gigabyte to almost 3 gigabytes. This is a Google product and that is possibly the strongest endorsement one can give to any application. You don't Google? Okay quit reading this and go run the bats out of that cave.

Google has a knack of taking difficult procedures and tweaking them for maximum usage and ease. When you click on the Google link be sure and take a look at their online spreadsheet, their online word processor, Picasa which is a awesome graphics editor (PhotoShop comes to mind), Calendar, Google Talk, and many of the other services provided. Hey all this is free! Google just plain rocks!

The beach house has used this great service in several different ways. At first it was downloaded through Outlook. When I switched to the Thunderbird client, GMail easily made the transition. What is Thunderbird? The Mozilla email software that is closely associated with Firefox. What's Firefox? C'mon, you're kidding me right? You really don't know? Might be time to go feed that velociraptor you keep as a pet.

Anyway, now GMail is used as a webmail client instead of POP3. It's just easier that way and I don't have to worry about losing data if a machine crashes. Keeping data stored on the internet saves hard drive space and messages, attachments n' such can be downloaded at my convenience. Besides, give me a computer using most any flavor of Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, even Apple and GMail can be accessed from any location I visit. This is wayyyy handy.

I can go on and on about the wonders and awe of this service. Attachments are a breeze, large files can be transferred, you can use the extra space as online storage, etc. Instead let me list several links so you can see why my endorsement is so positive.


GMail FAQ (not a Google site)

Wikipedia definition of GMail

Forbes (review made 11 days after the GMail beta was released!)

About GMail (this is a Google site)


Is everyone getting a sense of heavy duty, positive feelings about this service? Many things have not been mentioned, like the ability to download your GMail messages to a cellphone, the integration of Google applications, so on and so forth. In the days when the internet has massive problems with spyware creeps, trojan writers and other such scum from cyberhell it is nice to report about a service and a company that is improving our lives through better communication procedures. Hats off to the super folks at Google for a fine, fine job.

Now I must cease this adoration and go feed Robodog. Questions? Use the comments or GMail me at cybersouth@gmail.com.

"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."
-Kay