Google + Other Services
Note: This article was published while I was in my early 20s. I was much younger and dumber. Please don't hold it against me. One of the perils of having a 20+ year old website!
As you might have guessed, I am a huge fan of all things Google. In the last week or so I have come across some great things that make Google easily integrate with other services I use, making it so much better.
- Remember the Milk in GMail
- I’ve written about Remember the Milk before, and how I thought it was a great product. Recently they created a Firefox extension that makes it so much better by integrating it directly into the new version of GMail. It’s extremely robust and easy to use. They have a great write up about it over on the RTM blog. This will definitely get me using RTM again.
- DocSyncer
- DocSyncer is a web/desktop app that automatically synchronizes your Google Docs with the MS Office documents on your PC. This is a fantastic tool with great timing as I was recently trying to figure out a good way to do just this. The product is still in beta, but proves to be very useful.
- Google Sync for Blackberry
- With Google’s latest mobile update, it made GMail faster, Google Maps faster, and included Picasa in the mix. However, the best thing that came out of this update was Google Sync, which provides automatic synchronization of your Blackberry and Google calendars. This is very nice as now I don’t have to worry about making sure Plaxo syncs with both Google and MS Outlook so it then syncs with my Blackberry.
These changes will make my life infinitely easier and infinitely more attached to Google. But hey, I gotta organize my online life somehow, right?