Made the move…

I recently decided to move from an Exchange solution for my email to Google Apps (Gmail for my domain). I’ve had to sacrifice the luxuries of complete Outlook integration and more importantly Exchange ActiveSync. While these were hurdles for me, now that I’ve put in the work I’m pretty happy.

I am using OggSync to sync my calendar and contacts to my Treo 800w and I use FlexMail for IMAP IDLE push email on my Treo.  I also use OggSync on my work PC to sync my work calendar to a ‘Work’ Gmail calendar so that I always have an up to date work calendar on my Treo which is handy on a busy day.

I love Gmails spam filtering and the public calendars for all Minnesota sports. 🙂  Carolyn and I are able to share a ‘kids’ calendar to keep up on events in our household and I also stopped using IM software years back but am enjoying keeping in touch with my bro Stan in Kuwait and even Carolyn when I’m at work.

I’ve decided not to use a client side mail application on my PC’s or laptop and just use straight up Gmail.
There are other maturing technology solutions out there for me such as GooSync and Nuevasync (this looks very promising). For now I appear to be set.

Later!