Domininator Officially In The Clouds

I’ve resisted….  I’ve been content…. I’ve been missing out!

I finally made the switch to Gmail today.  Yes, my tech friends have been pushing, prodding and even calling me a sissy for not using Gmail.

Well folks, I finally did it, and brought The Moxie Maven with me.

Why did I do it, and what’s it have to do with the clouds?

Let’s start with the clouds Cloud computing is when your computing is somewhere else – “in the clouds” so to speak.  So things like web based email (MSN, Hotmail, Yahoo, GMAIL – etc) are cloud computing services for email.  The physical contents of the email are on another machine that you don’t have to maintain or upgrade.

So why did I do it?  I finally had enough administering a mail server that wasn’t behaving, and I needed a fast solution to keep emails from being bounced.  So I forwarded my emails to a Gmail email address, and all is good now.

So setup was easy enough, but there were other reasons to want to make the shift to Gmail too (besides the constant snickering of peers).  My iPhone was only checking the main Inbox of my IMAP folders, and not my presorted folders, so I’d wouldn’t get any updates on the other folders, unless I would manually check them out.

But now I have all my contacts synced up in one place, my calendar is all in one place, I can drop Microsoft Word and Excel, and do it all online, and have access to all my files anywhere in the world that I can get an Internet connection.

That’s the power of Cloud Computing.

Thanks Big G and a big hand to HelpMeRick for suggesting the change as a powerful business changing way of life.

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