Apr
14
Moving to an Online Life
Filed Under Blogs, Editorials, Email, Firefox, Gmail, Google, HowTos, IM, Internet, Mobile, Nokia, RSS, Social, Thunderbird | 6 Comments

So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD informed me my boot volume was un-mountable.
Mar
2
Exit Outlook 2007, Enter Thunderbird 2
Filed Under Email, Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 4 Comments
So I moved from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird this weekend. Though I’d been looking for an Outlook replacement for a while, the Nokia Synchronizer app (which I use heavily) worked only with Outlook, so that kept me from moving.
Jan
12
Syncing Nokia Phones - Alternatives to Outlook?
Filed Under Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 3 Comments
I am very close to dropping Outlook as my email client of choice for my institute mailbox. It is slow, incredibly disk-intensive and requires too much maintenance - the same problems I had with Lotus Notes during my time at IBM.
May
6
Gmail and managing clutter
Filed Under Email, Gmail, Insights, LotusNotes, Thunderbird | 6 Comments
It’s official - Gmail’s conversation view is the best way to manage lots of email. Evidence? Well, the internal mailing list that IIM Kozhikode students set up has seen well over a thousand messages in the past three weeks. Almost all those who chose to receive this deluge of email in their Yahoo! webmail inboxes have been unable to deal with the traffic, and have either simply lost track of content and have given up reading it, or have been unable to locate the information they need. On the other hand, those of us with Gmail accounts have had little or no trouble. Although my Gmail inbox has gone up from roughly 2200 email conversations to 3100 conversations in these 3 weeks, I never felt as if I couldn’t manage to read content as it came in, or re-visit the content that I wanted to.