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More Gmail Goodness

For the last year I have migrated from using two mail services, to just one: Gmail. Before this my work email was separate and I had a Blackberry that merged the two into one inbox. Since loosing the enterprise services for my Blackberry and now using the Motorola Droid phone, keeping my mail communication simple was getting sticky.

Gmail can handle checking in to any email account easily enough, yet I still needed a traditional email program for business use so I have entrusted Thunderbird for that task. Outlook was just too heavy for simply managing my mail and address book, Outlook Express was being a nuisance and would take eons to load and lacked fast keyword searching. Thunderbird loads quick, has a simple search and allowed me to easily import contacts.

The last piece of the puzzle just fell into place when I discovered gContactSync, a plug-in for Thunderbird that synchronizes my Gmail contacts into a new address book within the Thunderbird system. Now when I add contacts on my Droid, it syncs both to my Gmail cloud and then when I launch Thunderbird I have a hard-copy on my laptop too.

Now I might just be more inclined to clean up my address book as well.