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Gmail offline comes to Google Apps

Brian Lawlor — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:53:45 +0000

We wanted you to be the 878,444th person to know, so we’re going to post it here:

Google Enterprise today announced the arrival of offline Gmail, the latest feature in the Labs settings of Google Apps Gmail. It ain’t perfect, but basically works.

Gmail workaday: The sequel

Brian Lawlor — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:26:06 +0000

As suggested last week, Gmail seems to be emerging as the prevailing point of engagement for many of us using Google Apps. As if on cue, today Lifehacker highlighted the Integrated Gmail Firefox extension that loads any Google App inside Gmail. Not that I am recommending that particular extension. But it goes in the same Google Apps direction so many of us are going, namely, relying on the Gmail UI as the point of first entry to Google Apps.

Gmail as your workaday gateway

Brian Lawlor — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:08:32 +0000

It has been fascinating to watch the evolution of the user interface changes as the various Google Apps and other Google tools evolve, and none more so than Gmail. Email, uh, Gmail is the core web application for Google Apps users. They may or may not regularly use Google Docs or Google Chat or Google Sites or Google Reader, whatever… but you can pretty much count on your organization’s users relying on the Gmail interface to get basic work done. And with steady additions to the Gmail Labs features and now direct gadget integration into the Gmail interface — for example, the recent additions of Calendar and Docs gadgets that display directly within Gmail – the Gmail UI is evolving as a primary workaday dashboard for integrating and accessing an array of Google applications and tools.

Here’s a particularly interesting description of how one person does it: Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web. You could make the case that what he really needs to do is get a life, but regardless he has come up with several very smart and creative ways to exploit Gmail to help organize, access and communicate.

Google Chrome = My browser for reading Gmail

Brian Lawlor — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:52:01 +0000

Whatever else Google Chrome is, one very gratifying experience today is how much faster it handles my AJAX-heavy Gmail app, which can so often and so annoyingly load pages so slowly. I have never, ever seen Gmail pages load this fast. One probable explanation is that, apparently, Google Chrome is insanely fast.