Richard

@Jordan use http://nuevasync.com to get free push calendar and contacts on you iPhone. It works great with my Google Calendar and Gmail contacts. - Alexandre Testu via FriendFeed MT Plugin

It shouldn't be that hard - people should not have to set up complex third party apps in order to sync their mail, contacts and cal between Google and Outlook Until this is sorted, or android phones arrive, or something happens there will continue to be major impediments to switching entirely http://diversity.net.nz/gmail-... - Ben Kepes via FriendFeed MT Plugin

The great thing was that in the 1.5 hours I had after layoff notice yesterday, as I was scrambling to move all the music I'd bought from Amazon, my taxes and other personal information off the company machine (as a consultant it's our only machine on the road) -- I didn't have to worry about important email. I told everyone how to find me and I left. The cloud is a comfortable place to be. - Rotkäpchen via FriendFeed MT Plugin

While *you* chose Gmail over Exchange, and thus framed this story, you seem to insinuate that these are the only two options for email. What about Yahoo Mail? MobileMe? Self-hosted email? Are there really only two email optionos available. Don't think so. - Aaron Brazell via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Thunderbird, an open source Mozilla product to compete with MS Outlook but with customized add-ons and themes like Firefox. If you want the agility of GMail but can't deal with the "on behalf of" quirk that Scott mentioned above (when he linked to Lifehacker), consider T-bird. - Ari Herzog via FriendFeed MT Plugin