The Devel!

Bye Bye Desktop E-mail!

YES!!!! My Number 1 Gmail wishlist item has been fullfilled! I can now use Gmail for all emails! Even corporate mails!



Why? Because I can now use Gmail to compose and send out mails using my other email addresses! So, once I get all emails to myname@work.com to be forwarded to my gmail.. I can send and receive them inside Gmail itself!! Now I can stop running yet-another memory-hogging email app and get reeeeeal good email search. Thunderbird was my sweet escape from Outlook.... but Gmail takes up less RAM ;-D

Login to Gmail > Settings > Accounts > Send mail as

Wayyyyyy sweet :-D and yah, this is much sweeter news than Google Talk itself, sadly.



Update: Er... a wish on top of this wish, can the signatures the tagged to each outgoing email as well?



Update: for the concerned, the gmail headers Return-Path: and Sender: states your gmail address.. Received: header indicates its been thru wproxy.gmail.com server.. Message-ID: carries @mail.gmail.com. Other end-user usage experience is smooth. i.e Those headers aren't normally displayed, and recipients can hit "Reply" normally, etc.

Another Third Voice

Poor Third Voice, Inc was way ahead of its time... (which is often not good) now only remembered as "bright ideas that never caught on". There's recently been a revival / rehash of the website-overlay-comments idea. First, with Newsmasher greasemonkey script, now with http://hoodwink.d/ [this link won't work for you? read on]



I was pretty puzzled at Hoodwink'd actually - host not found, etc -... only later did I realized I'd missed the all important first post: Hoodwink'd, Day One: Forcing the Host to Attend the Party. The cool factor is there.. including the website footer saying "this site was probably designed by 37 signals or the like"... one thing bugs me.



I didn't have bandwidth (nor dream) to host a world of comments, Newsmasher (term was coined by Paul Boutin) merely piggyback'd on the hosting and community of del.icio.us - and in order not to abuse delicious, Newsmasher would only display "comments" after clicking on the <c... /> overlay, and not load on every page you view.



Hoodwink'd however, seems to be doing that - isn't that single-point-of-failure thing what made 3rd Voice a pain to use? Hopefully Why The Lucky Stiff has a distributed system planned...



PS: Yah, I haven't updated Newsmasher with delicious's new (months old) template