Comments on: Why 2009 Was The Year I Broke Down And Sold My Soul To Google

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:42:41 +0000

I to sold my sole. I had been struggling with calendars, data, and bookmarks all isolated in different machines or in different web spheres. I put everything, including my domain, into Google Apps and now live inside a Google umbrella.

By: Michael Lankton

Michael Lankton — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:51:25 +0000

It's really handy when you are on a lot of different machines during the week. Since I got my Palm Pre I really appreciate it, since almost half of my web use occurs on my phone. Halfway through uploading all my digital photos to Picasa as we speak.

I'm convinced. The cloud is useful, provided it is not your only access solution. Sound local backup strategies still need to be used.

By: stephen_nyc

stephen_nyc — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:25:37 +0000

Since I don't use so many different computers in any given day, the synch problem doesn't really exist for me. But when I am not at home, I can use LogMeIn (the free version) to connect to my home computer and check email via the local apps. And send email too. But maybe your job and my former one (I'm unemployed right now – openvms sys admin) are two different routines and you need to access all those computers.
The biggest issue is availability. What happens if you can't access Google? Or more to the point, what if Google itself isn't available? Pop quiz: What do you do? So long as you ask the questions and are happy with the answers, then it's ok, regardless of the decision.

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:52:01 +0000

I'm right around this revelation as you put it, but still can't quite pull the trigger. I think for me however where most of my stuff revolves around web development, I always have access to my FTP space and a text editor, so I can always make changes as I need to.

By: Doug Triplett

Doug Triplett — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:35:40 +0000

I moved to Google a long time ago. I have it pulling all my email in using POP. I use IMAP on my home computers to read my Gmail primarily so I can use SHIFT-Select to mass deletes.

CAlender is there too.

I use Bloglines for my RSS reader but have thought of switching to google reader.

The concern I have is giving so much of my data to one company.