Having had near total vertical communications integration for 3 years, getting used to not having it is hard. There simply is NO realistic alternative to Exchange and that makes the need for me to break from it all the more necessary and difficult. For the past three weeks I’ve been using Google Apps to run [...]

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After I finished my Whine about syncing contacts between Gmail and *anything*, I got to thinking about contacts and pim data in general. Realistically there only needs to be 1 address book/contact system on a computer. Think of it as a central repository of data. The notion that Quickbooks and other software packages have about [...]

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