What We Use #2: GMail

Here at TechMinds we're big fans of Google Apps. At $50 per person per year the email, contacts, calendar, and document service from Google forms the back-bone of our IT infrastructure. It's quick, easy to use, and works perfectly from the web, in Outlook, or from our iPhones, Android phones, and Windows Phones. But the real power in the Google Apps platform reside in how updates work. On your Mac or PC (or smartphones and tablets for that matter) there is a weekly deluge of updates which you must choose to install or not.

Google Apps is updated just about as frequently, but since Google manages that in the background the end user just wakes up to new features. Our favorite at the moment is what you see in the screenshot above. In that email I had referenced an attachment I wanted a client to review, except I forgot to actually attach it. When I clicked on "send" GMail came to the rescue and reminded me that I hadn't actually attached anything, saving me the embarrasment we've all had to face once or twice.