I’m a Premium Yahoo user. I subscribe to Yahoo Mail Plus and Yahoo Domains. At some stage I also subscribe to Yahoo Personal Mails and Yahoo Hostings. My favourite groups are still the Yahoo Group and swear by Flickr. However, what gets me is the Yahoo Toolbar.
I tried to live with the Yahoo Toolbar because it has the first online bookmark I used. For someone who regularly uses over 10 computers – you need everything online. Bookmarks, mails, notes, tools – everything must be online. And for someone who switches between various flavours of Unix and Windows – you can’t help but use Firefox and Internet Explorer. That is why when Yahoo decided to re-write the bookmarks in IE and left any further developments in FF – it is simply annoying because you start using 2 different sets of bookmarks. At first I thought it was temporary – but the FF toolbar keeps getting worst. The e-mail icon disappeared from the toolbar and the customised button stopped working.
The irony of it is that I’ve been googling the problem for sometime and no one seem to even mention about it. It’s as if I’m the only one left using the Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox.
So – that’s it for me – the toolbar goes, so is my e-mail, I’m taking in to GMail which I am now beginning to warm-up to. I can use domain type e-mails. POP and IMAP access for free – wow!!! Not to mention a bookmark that is consistent between IE and FF. The only downside is that it does not have a rich text signature – that one I’ll miss from Yahoo. I’m yet to warm up to the concept of labels instead of folders. And I don’t know if using MUTE to hide e-mails would have side-effects (out-of-sight out-of-mind).
But, GMail is rated best WebMail all around – even better than having your own Squirrel or RoundCube. So there – today is my first day to transition to GMail. I will not actually be using my GMail address though as I would still be using my domain address.
17-Dec-2008 – On the day GMail made Themes widely available, I discovered Google Apps. This allowed me to have a proper Domain WebMail powered by Google. I used it for about a month, but quickly went back using Gmail. Google Apps is like a poor cousin of GMail, the features are not made available in this supposedly premium service.
Interestingly enough, as I read back on this post, the Google Bookmarks is no better than the Yahoo bookmarks. There is a good reason why, perhaps, these two webmail giants have not updated their bookmark applications – there are lots of similar and better product in the market. I’m currently using Foxmarks, and with the beta now being made available in IE – I’m a happy camper.
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