Apparently 2GB of storage space is about to fade away like measuring hard drive space in megabytes. Microsoft is going to up the ante by providing Hotmail uses with 5GB of space.
I decided to check out how close I am to running out of space in my Gmail accounts. My oldest account is 3 years old. It gets a fair amount of emails and decent sized attachments. I rarely delete anything. I am currently using 241MB (8%) of my 2888MB.
At this rate it will take me over 30 years to fill up my account. Even more since Google is very slowly increasing their storage amount every day.
Do we really need 5GB of storage space for email? Is that something that would make you switch?
I switched from Hotmail to the Yahoo! e-mail several years ago because I got tired of spam and I was just interested in trying something new. I switched from Yahoo! to Gmail because I liked the concept of the threaded emails, quick load times, and using Google’s search abilities to find my emails. And those are the same reasons I still use them.
I did read a couple tech news items though that did seem like something worthwhile to pay attention to.
The nerds at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have a working prototype of a lightweight, flexible, paper-thin battery. Now that is cool and nanotubilicious. Check out this mind stretching quotation:
The paper could also be molded into different shapes, such as a car door, which would enable important new engineering innovations.
That is raising the stakes.
I would even be willing to bet that more people will be interested to know that you can now buy John Lennon’s catalog of music on iTunes in both the DRM and DRM-free versions. Break out your credit cards all of you Baby Boomer nerds.
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I’m with you on this mike. I have yet to even scratch the surface of my gmail account. I guess there are people who use gmail to store files, so I guess the more space the better. However, for general email purposes, 2 gb is plenty, especially for free.
I can’t imagine trusting an online email account to store files. I have enough trouble considering trusting somebody like that data archive company you wrote about the other day.
What kind of responsibility could a free email service possibly have for not losing your data or just plain losing the account entirely. I remember trying to log into Hotmail one time after not logging in for a while and they had deactivated the account.
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