Blog: Entries Tagged With 'gmail'

I need to start moving some files from my primary Gmail to my other accounts. Gmail is telling me, in bold red letters: You are currently using 2763 MB (100%) of your 2767 MB.

And it won't let me send even plain-text messages now.

The speakers on the laptop I used to have were downright horrid. So bad in fact, that there wasn't ever an instance when I preferred to listen to music through the speakers rather than through my $6 pair of headphones. That was the ONLY way of listening to music I was exposed to.

So for the most part, music sounded the same regardless of what bitrate it was encoded at. I couldn't detect the difference between CD quality MP3's and radio quality MP3's. Thus I vehemently decided that any songs over 128kbps took up more space than they deserved. When I stumbled upon a re-encoding program one day, I was all too happy to trim those excess megabytes from my collection.

Ignorance is bliss. But it usually comes back and bites you in the rear. Now that I have a real speaker system, some of these songs don't sound so great when blasted around the room. They sound grainy, and details are missing.

Fortunately I wasn't ENTIRELY a fool, thanks to Gmail. Before deleting something, if I thought there was even a 1% chance of me wanting to recover it in the future, I archived it in Gmail. I guess I didn't fully rule out the possibility that I might get a killer speaker system one day. Or more likely, just better headphones...

The day is saved. And Gmail says: You are currently using 2636 MB (97%) of your 2727 MB.

Ever had an email that was too good to throw away, even though you knew you'd probably never look at it again? If you're like me and too lazy to file, they would just accumulate in your inbox until you'd have a hard time sifting through what's really important and what's not. Add in the fact that I have like 13 email addresses scattered hither and thither, and you'll get a better picture.

Tada! If you've already guessed, this is where Gmail comes in. I just finished forwarding all those "savable" emails to my Gmail account.. and the total was over 100. That took longer than it should have, since there's no way to bulk-forward. But once they were in Gmail... paradise. Lots of storage, one-click archiving, and easy searching make me a happy camper.

Gmail says: You are currently using 36 MB (1%) of your 2461 MB.

I logged into Gmail today to find that I had not 6, but 50 invites! Seems like they're starting to go more public. Though by now the invitations should have mushroomed and everybody on earth who wants a Gmail account should be able to obtain it. If you ask me, Gmail is going to use the invitation system forever. This makes signing up more of a hassle, which will preclude most spammers from getting a Gmail account (especially by automated means). Hooray for the innovation that is Google!

Gmail: the best email service out there. 1000 MB of storage and banner ad-free. But it's still in beta testing, so in order to get an account, you have to be invited by a Gmail user who has invites. And thanks to Theresa, I now have a Gmail account. =)