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14/05/06 Moving to a Hot-desking Model
My life is moving towards a web-based hot-desking (switching between multiple deskspaces) model rather than being located in one spot. Apart from spending allot of time in DCU recently on my laptop, I’ve still been coming home to the same desktop machine to download my mail & calendar in Outlook, read my feeds in BlogBridge, and use word for documents on my hard-drive.
Come September, I will be working between London & Dublin and over 3 computers (hopefully 4 if I can add a little Apple iBook to the set!). I need to be able to hot-desk quicker, and better. To do this I’m trying out what I’ll call the Google Suite, I’m currently doing a trial run, and decided to post this message as I’ve reached my 1000th email without opening Outlook yet.
Tool set and Impressions:
Outlook Email -> GMail
Gmail is great, my only problem is everyone can see I’m using Gmail and not my own domain (even though the reply-to is set).Outlook Calendar -> Google Calendar
Great. Exactly what I need, including shared events. A ‘Google Desktop’ gadget lets me get event alerts too!BlogBridge -> Google Reader
Feed reading online, like many other web-based feed-readers, but I like the way once signed in with my Google Account I’m automatically logged in.
I’ll do a longer update after I make the full move.
5 Comments
14/05/06 Rowan
Try “Send mail as” under Settings->Accounts
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=20616
yeh I had done that… but it then still says in the from header “Robin Blandford on behalf of “…
15/05/06 Rowan
No way! really? That sucks
Huh? That doesn’t happen for us Robin and we use Gmail all teh time for our ‘corporate’ email. We don’t see any “on behalf of”…. at all.
22/05/06 ByteSurgery » Swapping Lives - Moving to the UK - Digital Media Engineering [ Robin Blandford ]
[...] This is an example of one of the ways I’ll be using web based, remote applications, to ease the volume from the list of 100 things I need to do. I’m consciously on the lookout for anything that may make my hot desking transition (Be first to click!) smoother. [...]
