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Mail Act-On 2: Going back to an old favorite

January 22, 2009

Before I started using Google Apps for Your Domain, I was a power user of MailTags and Mail Act-On, both apps developed by indev.

Not too long after moving to a Google-based system, I abandoned MailTags, which is a terrific app. At the same time, I stopped using Act-On as much. When I switched over to [...]

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Goodbye BusySync. Hello… MobileMe?

January 18, 2009

Political consulting being my day job, I find myself from time to time needing to set up a “server system” for a campaign.

Needs are basic: Email, file storage and sharing and calendaring. Since spending money on a business-level system is not usually an option, I take advantage of Google Apps for Your Domain.

It works better [...]

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Google Apps Part 3: Making my online and offline workflows flow

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the final part of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

Like I said in Part 2 of this series:

Not everyone’s workflow is the same, and thus not everyone will use Google Apps the same. As I said, it has its limitations, and [...]

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Google Apps Part 2: Reasons I like and dislike Google Apps

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the second part of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

I discussed in this post what Google Apps includes and why I chose to use it. Google Apps provides a lot of advantages and a few disadvantages. First, let’s take a look at the [...]

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Google Apps Part 1: What is Google Apps and why I chose it

August 26, 2008

Note: This is the first of a three-part series on Google Apps, its advantages and how it fits into my workflow.

I was not an early adopter to Gmail or Google Docs. My reasons were not from fear of “big brother”, though those are valid concerns.

My reasons were much simpler:

I had an email address [...]

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