Word Verification ON

After receiving several spam comments on this blog I had to turn on the word verification feature. I do require users to register before they can post a comment, so I was surprised when I got spam. Hopefully this takes care of it!!!

Four to Five Meg per Day

I only have three days recorded in my log so far. Right now it looks like GMail increases their space by four to five megabytes per day.

Hmmm...

That's over 1,460 megabytes per year and 14,600 every ten years. Wow, we're all going to have over 16 gigabytes of email storage in ten years.

Starting My Tracking

As mentioned in my last post I'm going to start tracking the amount of space that gets added to GMail each day. I'm not sure how long I'll do this for, but I'm starting today. Already, it looks like Google has added 7MB to GMail since my last post.

Unlimited Space?

I can't really tell if the space Google is allowing in GMail is a joke or not. It seems unreasonable to continue adding space to accounts on an ongoing basis. How can they afford it? As of writing this right now I have 2311.292*** megabytes of space.

Something I'm looking to do here in the future is make some projections on how much space I would have in ten years, assuming the increase rate remains the same. To me, it seems like the number would be huge, and maybe that would be reasonable ten years from now. However, I just can't get my head around unlimited space.

So keep an eye out for future posts.

Not an April Fools Joke

In amazement yesterday, I posted an article on my blog about the news that GMail bumped their storage limit to 2GB. For some reason I was completely blinded by their April fools joke that they were going to off unlimited storage. Some of my friends at work read my blog and asked "are you sure?" Today I can proudly say yes, I'm sure.

GMail has bumped their storage limit to 2GB, way beyond where Yahoo and Hotmail are at. Google is holding true to their word of never deleting an email again, well, unless it's spam. It makes think that as time goes on Google will need to continue to increase storage limits. So is their April fools joke really true? Maybe we will have unlimited storage.

GMail is Free

I feel like I can't say much here anymore. I have 50 invites available right now to hand out and nobody wants them. So what's the point of this blog anymore? If you really want a GMail experience, just get an account, from anyone. I don't see many people fighting for a account these days.

Now that many other free serverices have upped their limits on space and features, I see fewer people flocking to GMail. I still think GMail is a superior service compared to others, like Yahoo or Hotmail.

Anyway, don't expect much from this blog anymore, I'm on the verge of shutting it down....

More work, better GMail

I can't believe how long it's been since I've been able to write in this thing. My job keeps getting more and more demanding. It looks like I'll be working through the holidays this year. Not fun at all.

On the brighter side, GMail has opened POP3 to my account. I remember a while back when this service was free with Yahoo, which I thought was really appealing in a free service. The fact is that I don't want to always use a web page to read my email. What if I don't have a connection to the net.

I was skeptical that some adwords might show up at the bottom of each message, much like Yahoo and other free providers. To my surprise I didn't get any adds! On top of that, GMail uses full encryption to transfer mail between your client to their servers. Encryption reaches far beyond what many paid service providers offer today. It really makes me wonder if I will ever be required to pay for this service.

In the mean time, I just enjoying the great features.