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August 21, 2005
Web Mail: Fully Loaded
It's always a bit of a commitment to switch to a new email application or web service, and such a change will almost certainly come with some measure of inconvenience. So if you're considering making a switch, as I did recently, you might want to make sure you're making an informed decision by reading Web Mail: Fully Loaded from PC Magazine.
To cut to the chase, their editor's choice went to Yahoo! Mail, for all the right reasons. It includes an address book, calendar and notepad which can be synced to your desktop computer or PDA. Yahoo! Mail offers virus protection and spam filters. I've never tried the PhotoMail beta, which allows you to automatically insert thumbnails of your photos into your email, but that's almost enough to tear me away from Gmail, since I'm a dedicated Yahoo! Photos user.
Almost, but not quite. Though Gmail doesn't have all the features of Yahoo, it runs faster than Yahoo Mail, almost as fast an a desktop application. And after all, speed is of the utmost importance when using email. Then there's the fact that the banner ads on the free version of Yahoo are a little more than I can take.
Though I'll tell you a secret. I still use Yahoo for my address book because I can sync my contacts. Gmail's address book is just too primitive to be bothered with. Oh well, nothing is ever perfect! At least they're both free!
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