In which I mumble about software in a way that is of no interest to anyone but myself.
I can’t figure out what the fuck to do about PIM.
Once upon a time, I used Outlook on my computer and carried a synced PocketPC. Email, address book, calendar, tasks: all in one place and portable.
I no longer carry a PocketPC so I’m trying to keep all my data online, where I can get to it from any computer or my phone with no fuss. I’ve been auditioning various calendars, task managers, and webmail interfaces for a couple of years now.
I have most of my stuff at Gmail currently, but I don’t like their lack of old-school folders or drag-and-drop capability. (I don’t like Google calendar either, truth be told. And while I’ve tried to love Google Docs, somehow I don’t.) I also don’t like my Google user name, but the other names I’d want have been taken and I’d lose all my other Google content or have to move it if I moved to a new account…
I’ve tried Yahoo! Mail but the ads piss me off. I’ve tried my local Horde installation but while it’s robust, it’s fugly. I’ve tried to find server-side applications I could install and host here at the ‘box, but most of them don’t do everything I want or they’re ugly or expensive or need to run on architecture I don’t have.
I’ve tried several web-based solutions, but the good ones are all for-pay and end up costing more than buying a locally-run application, and I could just go back to Outlook for free…
Hmm. The more I think about it, the more I suspect that what I’m really looking for is Outlook. And some way to sync it to a web-based service, which means Plaxo.
Gah.
In other news, after nearly two years of inactivity I recreated my mush email address at goblinbox.com and within two minutes the box started getting spam. Fucking spammers! A pox on you all!
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Friends
- Barn Lust
- Blind Prophesy
- Blogography*
- blort*
- Cabezalana
- Chaos Leaves Town*
- Cocky & Rude
- EmoSonic
- From The Storage Room
- Hunting the Horny-backed Toad
- Jazzy Chad
- Mission Blvd
- Not My Rabbit
- Puntabulous
- sathyabh.at*
- Seismic Twitch
- superherokaren
- The Book of Shenry
- The Intrepid Arkansawyer
- The Naughty Butternut
- tokio bleu
- Vicious, Unrepentant, Bitter Old Queen
- whatever*
- William
- WoolGatherer
- Powered by Calendar Labs
Spam?
I’ve only seen 2-3 spams in the last month. Because I use Google mail. Yea, me!
I feel sorry for those few friends that I haven’t converted to gmail. Especially those that put up with Yahoo.
I *heart* Gmail because I have a client for it on my phone. Yay me! But I don’t like their organization; I want old-school FOLDERS, damn it. -m
I’m mixed on gmail too because I <3 old school folders. So currently 4 email addys pop to Thunderbird. Then I have about 3 accounts that sit on gmail. Plus one or two or four more other places…
Heh. EXACTLY. -m