I recently dived into Google Apps and found them pretty useful. I am eager to know how many of the 9rulers prefer google apps and what do they use it for, personal, educational or business.
Do you use hosted email ? like chaning mx records @ your host and prefer that email or you are ok with gmail.com ?
just curious....

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peroty
Written May. 13, 2007 / Report /
I've pretty much abandoned my domain's account, though it is a joy to use with <Round Cube.
I run about a half dozen accounts into my Gmail and sort them accordingly.
When I worked for our university newspaper, I set the staff up with accounts using the paper's domain name since they all used Gmail anyway so it was zero learning curve and dead easy to manage.
I love Gmail.
I've only used the word processor a hand full of times since I don't process words, I write code. I have no use for spreadsheets so I've not touched that at all.
jlaakso
Written May. 13, 2007 / Report /
I use Google Docs and specifically the word processor for personal use. It's just handy to have the files on their servers on not scattered across several computers. I've used the document sharing a couple of times, it's a neat feature.
I use Gmail for all of my personal email.
I'm sort of looking forward to their version of PowerPoint. We use PPT a lot at work, and it's just a pain to work with, so bloated.
brendan
Written May. 13, 2007 / Report /
I've moved much of my mail handling over to google apps. And gmail makes light work of lots of varying email.
I host one of my domains via apps and am pondering moving everything else there.
Their apps are pretty solid and having things like docs and spreadsheet work flawlessly via gmail is cool.
It's interesting, but I don't actually use an email client now... gmail and google reader have replaced it.
Which rocks as now no matter what device or computer I use, I can tap into "my stuff" anywhere, at any time. And that, imho, is pretty massive.
Now, if there was only a mobile version of 9rules notes.. ;)
clearskysnet
Written May. 30, 2007 / Report /
I moved our email across to google apps when they were first in beta and can't really say enough good things about it.
I switched our DNS out to everydns.net at the same time. It just gives that little bit extra stability. If the website goes down for whatever reason I can still send and receive emails, and if the email is down (which hasn't happened yet) I can post a notice on the website.
If both are down for any length of time (but the dns is still up), I can switch the domain to point to a holding page.
shadowsun7
Written May. 31, 2007 / Report /
I use Notepad to record snippets of information I find on the web, especially if I'm using friend's computer or if I'm in a cyber cafe.
Gmail is my favourite webmail service.
Use Google Alerts to keep track of certain online trends - a source of information for my blogging at Novelr.
Oh - and I used iGoogle for awhile before moving over to Netvibes. The dynamic design nearly made me switch back!