Thursday, April 22, 2004

Whoa! GMail

Yippee. finally i've got 1 GB of hosted email. Who cares if they scan my mail, I love the space.
Ok here is a quick review of GMail.

Pluses
1. UI is neat, and extremely easy to use.
2. I love the quick reply thingie.
3. Threaded display of message is one thing I've been longing for. I was so tied up (still am) with my mozilla Thunderbird for this feature.
4. Labels, again from Mozilla's trunk.
5. Javascript and DOM. Boy! this makes the pages work fast.
6. Search mail (do i need to mention it?)

Some nice Google touches
1. Error/Info Messages (e.g., empty trash = "No conversations in the trash. Who needs to delete when you have 1000 MB of storage?!", empty spam folder = "Hooray, no spam here!")
2. When i send a mail to my own account, the display name says "Me"

Minuses
1. I couldn't get Kannan@gmail.com, somebody took it already (that lucky $!#@&!!).
2. I can't empty my trash. (but hey didn't you read about that 1 gigabyte thing!)
3. (...still testing, will come up with more).

Posted by Kannan at 2:57 PM | | Comments ()