What to do when gmail is down? Write a review of it
Google’s email service also known as gmail has now been down for over an hour. Its 11:49 UK time here. Here is a quick review of whats good and bad about it.
Good:
- Can run multiple pop3 and imap accounts through it, all located in the one single interface
- Search facility is fantastic, find anything in seconds
- iPhone access- works a treat on the iPhone
- Speed – its usually lightening quick to load and read
- Web space – it now has 12GB of space – iv only used 12% of that with many large files
- Its a free service
- Even the ads can be useful, iv seen me finding some great sites and articles from the ad links
Bad
- There really is only one bad thing i can say about and thats the downtime im suffering from right now. Iv used gmail for over 2 years and apart from the occasional “service is down” message its worked a treat.
- Ill add the ads in here as well as for the good. They do take up a little bit of screen space but its a minor bad point.
12:13p: You can get your gmails through your mobile such as iPhone. It seems only the web interface is down for now.
What do you love about gmail? Is it worth it even with todays downtime?
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I really like Gmail (infact I’m a big fan of all the google ‘apps’ – reader, docs etc.). My only issue with it seems to be the trouble I have setting up to work within Apple Mail, which I use for my other email accounts (portfolio, uni and mobileme). I did something to it last night, and now Mail won’t start unless I disable my gmail account in it :-S. Gonna have another fiddle tonight.
It works flawlessly on my iphone, and the folders (or ‘labels’ as they say) are useful.
I really wish that I could get my Google Reader RSS feeds to sync with my Mail RSS feeds (with the aim of eventually these features being incorporated into the iPhone Mail.app so I can have my Email and RSS side-by-side just like on my macbook) Does anyone know of a way of doing this?
Cheers