As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection...Here's an imperfection for ya, O Milky One: Can you use right-click new tab with Gmail? Can you open up several letters at once, in separate tabs, which is very helpful for certain copy-and-paste operations, and which also saves time when the connection is running slow?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Turnpike 5.0.1 has those features and absolutely kicks butt. I've used it for a decade or more. Pay 10 pounds, one-off, for a universal licence so you can access any mailserver you've got accounts on.
Knowing Outlook would be crap, I tried it once and it was. Thunderbird is pretty good, but pales into insignificance beside Turnpike. Don't use Turnpike 6, though - its got a Windows Explorer-like interface. Yuck.
The hell with Google 'world domination'. Even its search engine - which has encouraged every idiot to think he or she's Sherlock Holmes for being able to type two or three words into a computer and watch for what comes up - is a load of crap. Incidentally its key operations are largely Israeli-based, as are some key ops of Microsoft and Intel. "Hello". Unlike Microsoft and Intel, though, Google is about as Israeli as Amdocs.
Interesting that many other program owners are now strongly encouraging the installation of the Google toolbar. I'm very wary of being told what to do, and baulk against it to the max, but even I once installed the Google toolbar by accident and had to spend time uninstalling it.
It all makes "Promis" (remember Promis?) look neolithic.
Imagine what a proper internet search engine would look like! It would be fantastic! But for the moment all we can do is imagine...
PS The brand guys rate Google as the most valuable brand in the world, above Microsoft and Coca-Cola. 'Cos gullible eyeballs is where the income stream is. Most people relate to the internet as if to Television 2.0.
PPS Nations are brands too (a fact the 'anti-capitalist' movement finds it impossible to recognise), but are never considered as such (in their published materials anyway) by the brand mavens.
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Link to article reporting Google as world's top brand should have been here. Google has taken top place since 2007. General Electric was rated #2, Microsoft #3, Coca-Cola #4. In the latest report (2008), those 4 occupy the same places and the next 6 run: #5 China Mobile, #6 IBM, #7 Apple, #8 McDonald’s, #9 Nokia, #10 Marlboro.
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I hate, hate, hate the threaded conversation feature of G-Mail. Agree about not being able to have tabbed email. I can't sort by anything - they sort by date received only (I can sort by subject, attachment, sender, date, etc in Outlook). Outlook may have it's own issues, but cripes, how much did Google pay this guy to write that POS?
Outlook is better than Thunderbird in my book, b. In Outlook, you can receive AND SEND email using different addresses. In Thunderbird, all outgoing mail uses the same server. (Unless they've fixed it...?) This means that you're hosed if you are secretly communicating with a cutie in Kentucky while using the pseudonym Lothario B. Cheaterman.
Not that I would ever do anything like that. I'm simply illustrating the point.
Joe, and it's useful if you want to pretend to be a cute Kentucky g- hey!
(Sergei Rostov)
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