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Google Apps Missing Features

December 24, 2009

The Google Apps I use in my firm—Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts—have some great features. They also have some crippling omissions that frustrate me on a daily basis. No integrated search Google is a search company, so why is search so limited within Google Apps? In good old, antiquated Outlook, I can find e-mails, [...]

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Google Apps sync for Outlook coming soon

June 10, 2009

In its quest to replace Microsoft Exchange, Google will soon offer a full Google Apps sync for Outlook, so that users can seamlessly transition from Microsoft Exchange Server (or, presumably, just plain Outlook) to Google Apps. A one-click installer is available now. Everything works great except for the email sync, since Google has apparently not [...]

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Sharing contacts without Exchange?

June 5, 2009

Until now, I have been a solo practitioner, but my firm is growing. Consequently, I need a way to share contacts between myself and my law clerk. Google Apps—what I use now—does not have an easy way to this level of sharing. Here is what I want: Free Cross-platform (Windows, OS X, and Linux) Syncs [...]

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Can Zimbra survive a Yahoo-Microsoft merger?

February 5, 2008

Zimbra is a bleeding-edge Web 2.0 project. It is similar to Google Apps, but built with the business and enterprise user in mind. It is also a competitor to Microsoft Exchange, but goes well beyond Exchange’s capabilities. While there is an open source edition of Zimbra, it was not released under the GNU GPL, but [...]

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Managing attachments in Outlook

April 18, 2007

One of the problems with using Outlook to manage e-mail is that there is no easy way to manage attachments. Outlook is not a good place to store attachments. Outlook basically rolls all your information–e-mails, attachments, tasks, appointments, and contacts, into one .pst file. So the more attachments, the more data Outlook has to manage, [...]

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Local or remote office technology?

February 21, 2007

I have been peeking at Zimbra lately, a hot networked personal information manager. But instead of being run from your computer, it is run remotely (think Gmail+Google Calendar+Skype, and then some). There are serious advantages to this, starting with platform independence and reduced load on your local system resources. It also has advantages for collaboration, [...]

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