Google are flooding me with invitations - I seem to be getting six new ones every week or so. I currently have 12 invitations to give away and if anyone is interested say so.
Recap of why gMail replaced hotmail as my primary account:
1GB of storage space - hotmail promised 250MB a while ago, but my account still has a measly 2MB of space. Two megabytes (and an attatchment cap of what? 500K?) means I can't even send a decent quality picture, let alone something larger. I realize there are other services out there who also provice 1GB of storage, but I've tried all of them and they are either extremely
unstable and clunky or have a
*horrid* interface.
A fast interface - unlike Hotmail (and to a
much greater extent Spymac), gMail uses a sleek javascript-based interface, making it a
lot faster to browse through than pretty much every other webmail I've ever used (and I've used more than a few... I probably have more than 10 webmail accounts scattered across the web)
Bells&whistles - bells 'n' whistles usually implies unnecessary or superflous functions, and while that's how I initially viewed most of them, I now feel handicapped whenever I have to use my hotmail account because I've started seeing the usage of labels, grouping mails into conversations, an ability to search all my emails as essential functions.
Free Forwarding of Emails - granted all webmail services provide this, but it's never free. I'm pretty sure google will make it a payed service as well after gMail goes public, but for now it's one of the best things in the universe. I can use my vicsun@gmail address publicly without having to disclose my real name to anyone. And then I just tell it to forward all the emails to
real.name@gmail.com so I don't have to check both accounts or install two notifiers... which brings me to my next point.
gMail Notifier - a small program you can install that sits in your system tray and informs you if you have any new e-mails. Kind of like msnMessenger does with hotmail. Besides msn/hotmail I don't know of any other webmail service that offers anything similar.
Before anyone explains how ordinary mail already has all of those features and has had them for ages and thus ruins my day *cough*Xandax*cough* I'd like to say that if you're not a fan of web-mail then gMail probably isn't for you. But if you, like me, need to access your mail and the files stored on it from several different places, gMail is currently the best solution.
/pockets check from google
So, in conclusion, if anyone wants an invitation, pm me with your email and you'll receive one
