lifehack.org— Although Gmail, Gcal, Google Reader, et al. are great apps, they're not perfect. Here's what Google needs to do to improve.
May 4, 2007View in Crawl 4
Um, pardon me, but PLEASE support Safari in the future? It's the #3 browser in the world, and some of just won't ever go with Firefox because Safari has good things like Saft and SafariStand. PleasePleasePleasePlease...
I don't see what was wrong with Google Home PageThey're a search engine. It's your home page. Get it?if I had to suggest a hypothesis, I would say that they're trying to distance themselves from being "just a search engine". Which is just silly when it's Google we're talking about.
They need a client for mobile devices (WM5, Symbian, Palm OS) that can sync mail, contacts, calendar, etc. Pretty much the same way Windows Mobile devices can sync with Exchange Server. Right now I pay about $7/month for a hosted Exchange account, plus however much it cost me to put Outlook on all of my machines. I love the fact that I have all the same data available everywhere, even on my phone; having something like this from Google would be the cat's pajamas, and would make me drop Microsoft in a red hot minute.
1. GCal really needs to provide email notifications for events on secondary calendars.2. GCal also needs better criteria for recurring events. Right now I have to manually input my paydays because it's a biweekly occurrence.
peterinjapanMay 5, 2007
Um, pardon me, but PLEASE support Safari in the future? It's the #3 browser in the world, and some of just won't ever go with Firefox because Safari has good things like Saft and SafariStand. PleasePleasePleasePlease...
aeliasMay 5, 2007
Mail sorting and a two pane layout are solid ideas. That would at least keep them current with yahoo, FFS
tacobakeMay 5, 2007
I don't see what was wrong with Google Home PageThey're a search engine. It's your home page. Get it?if I had to suggest a hypothesis, I would say that they're trying to distance themselves from being "just a search engine". Which is just silly when it's Google we're talking about.
atworksurferMay 6, 2007
They need a client for mobile devices (WM5, Symbian, Palm OS) that can sync mail, contacts, calendar, etc. Pretty much the same way Windows Mobile devices can sync with Exchange Server. Right now I pay about $7/month for a hosted Exchange account, plus however much it cost me to put Outlook on all of my machines. I love the fact that I have all the same data available everywhere, even on my phone; having something like this from Google would be the cat's pajamas, and would make me drop Microsoft in a red hot minute.
mobilebuddhaMay 6, 2007
dupe entry. sorry.
wmarcelloMay 6, 2007
1. GCal really needs to provide email notifications for events on secondary calendars.2. GCal also needs better criteria for recurring events. Right now I have to manually input my paydays because it's a biweekly occurrence.
fillup07May 7, 2007
Use the "Better Gmail" firefox extension instead of installing dozens of greasemonkey scripts. Pretty cool.<a class="user" href="http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/lifehacker-code-better-gmail-firefox-extension-251923.php">http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/lifehacker-code-better-gmail-firefox-extension-251923.php</a>