Black-gmail-berry
The Black-gmail-berries are ripe this time of year in New England. To harvest them you'll need a Gmail account with the new POP feature (you did know that Gmail comes with free POP access now right?), a Blackberry web client (I'm using the AT&T Wireless Blackberry Web Click at attwireless.com/blackberrystart/) and a Blackberry. Setup is simple. Login to your Gmail account. Click Settings --> Forwarding and POP --> Enable POP and then click 'Save Changes'. Then login to your Blackberry Web Client, click on 'Profile' in the upper navigation and then click the 'other email accounts' link under the Email Accounts header. Click the 'Add Account' button and then enter your enter Gmail email address for both the 'Email Address' field and the 'User Name' field. Pop in your password, click the submit button and you should be eating Black-gmail-berries in no time.
In all seriousness, I'm even more impressed with Gmail after this experience. They roll out 1GB email. For free. And then people say they all really want POP access to their email. For free. Which really cuts into the Adwords revenue I'm sure. So not only does Google roll out POP access *for free*, but they do it so that if something is automatically labeled as spam by Gmail, it doesn't get put in the POP queue. It sits nicely in the web-based console waiting for me to come and delete it when I want to. And they didn't do by making forcing all the emails to be bulky HTML beasts full of their own ads. No, they realize that people don't want to see ads on handhelds and in Eudora or whatever they're email client of choice is, so they don't put it there. Bravo Google! Bravo Gmail!
November 18, 2004 in Tips by ajohnson