Comments on: PIM Add-ons http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2008/05/05/pim-add-ons/ Information Technology aid for Windows, Linux, and OS X users, solid SysAdmin advice, troubleshooting links, job assistance, and more for technology pros. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: crunchygeek http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2008/05/05/pim-add-ons/#comment-151477 crunchygeek Wed, 07 May 2008 16:59:58 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2008/05/05/pim-add-ons/#comment-151477 Matt: as one who lives in both the google apps world (personal) and the exchange world (work..not my choice), I find the exchange world much more cumbersome than the google apps world. In addition, if I'm not on MY computer at work, then I can't see work related stuff. I support users who are in the far east at times. My gmail account enables me to support those users in something approximating real time (because of web-based email and google chat), not requiring me to play "email-tag" with them. I don't need read-receipts, so that is not an issue for me. I will agree with you that google calendar could greatly improve itself with some kind of task management. I would suggest that any world other than the one you get used to will be, as you say, "more difficult than originally expected." Matt: as one who lives in both the google apps world (personal) and the exchange world (work..not my choice), I find the exchange world much more cumbersome than the google apps world. In addition, if I’m not on MY computer at work, then I can’t see work related stuff. I support users who are in the far east at times. My gmail account enables me to support those users in something approximating real time (because of web-based email and google chat), not requiring me to play “email-tag” with them. I don’t need read-receipts, so that is not an issue for me. I will agree with you that google calendar could greatly improve itself with some kind of task management. I would suggest that any world other than the one you get used to will be, as you say, “more difficult than originally expected.”

]]> By: Ulf http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2008/05/05/pim-add-ons/#comment-151425 Ulf Tue, 06 May 2008 08:25:35 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2008/05/05/pim-add-ons/#comment-151425 The two points mentioned are no issue for me. The missing tasks can be replaced by "Remember the Milk" and the great firefox plugin. The tasks are nicely integrated into gmail with this. The missing "read receipt" is no issue for me as well. The read receipt has always been optional from the reads side, so it's on the readers mercy to send it or ignore it. A lot of people even see it as a privacy problem. The two points mentioned are no issue for me. The missing tasks can be replaced by “Remember the Milk” and the great firefox plugin. The tasks are nicely integrated into gmail with this.

The missing “read receipt” is no issue for me as well. The read receipt has always been optional from the reads side, so it’s on the readers mercy to send it or ignore it. A lot of people even see it as a privacy problem.

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