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Darn you Google!

Matt — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:32:49 +0000

Yet another feature not available to their paying customers. /sigh

Update 6/13/08: They’ve now enabled this feature for my account. Yay.

Google Apps

Matt — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:44:51 +0000

Well, I decided to sign up for Google App’s to see how I liked it. So far playing around with it has been nice. I have my email setup there and am slowly getting contacts added for GTalk. It’s also neat since you can do some simple customizations like adding you’re own logo. Here’s a quick screenshot I took:

This actually came at a pretty good time hopefully. I had been searching for a calendar option somewhat, and Google Calendar is pretty decent for my purposes, so having my email and calendar all wrapped up together will do nicely. I was also able to move some of my common documents I like to have floating around with me (such as my resume) moved over to my Documents. It’s not MS-Office (that’s not really meant as a compliment to MS), but it’ll do well for my purposes. It may not all be as robust, but it has the features that I need most commonly. I should be able to figure things out for the other times.I’ll let you know how things go. Let’s just hope that my old problems don’t return, heh.

gMail + gTalk = gFailure

Matt — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:52:07 +0000

I’m getting so tired of seeing this error message (click to enlarge).

This along with the “Oops … we were unable to perform the operation” or whatever their cute-sie error message is has become all too common for the past week to week and a half.

It hasn’t come to it yet, but at the current rate of degradation in service, it won’t take long for GMail to be rendered useless for me. I’ve had to go back on my swearing off of IM clients. For now I’m using Meebo (neat IM client by the way) when the GTalk service is failing through GMail for me (oddly, I can still get on GTalk through Meebo’s jabber service just fine).

And for the record, I’ve been having these problems on multiple computers that operate on multiple networks. So I think it’s pretty safe to assume that it is particular to either the entire GMail+GTalk service or my account and not to my computer or my connection.

UPDATE: While trying to get things back up with chat in GMail, I got this. Hmm, maybe it’s time to try out Thunderbird again…

UPDATE: Now I’m really getting pissed. GMail is taking its sweet time in delivering email to me apparently. I’m receiving emails hours after they were originally sent. I’m pretty close to going back to using my own server for email. This kind of unreliability isn’t worth it.

UPDATE: Now a friend has received a “this message has been delayed” response when trying to send me an email. I’ve moved my email account now, so shouldn’t be an issue going forward. Bah, too bad, I really liked gmail, but I can’t deal with this.