Anyone use FastMail? I'm really tired of Gmail & Calendar. I'm using the free trial now and really like the streamlined layout but wanted to solicit opinions before actually paying.
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megan walker - Feb 20, 2015 2:18:49 pm PST #24364 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
esse - Feb 20, 2015 3:02:59 pm PST #24365 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I use Airmail and Postbox to skin gmail so it's useable, on Mac and Windows respectively. For calendar interaction I use Sunrise to skin my google calendar, iCloud calendar, etc. Sunrise can run independently on Mac (maybe Windows?) and also as a Chrome app.
Jessica - Feb 20, 2015 3:26:13 pm PST #24366 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've heard really great things about Sunrise.
On my phone, I really like Google Inbox, but I went back to Gmail on the desktop because there's no easy "select all unread-->delete" option in Inbox, and I don't want to keep archiving junk mail.
megan walker - Feb 20, 2015 4:46:13 pm PST #24367 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm Windows/Chrome & Windows Phone but it looks like Microsoft just acquired Sunrise so I guess that should work. I will check it out.
I basically want nothing going through Google so I need a full mail substitute, but Gmail is only a personal address not work or my online default so it doesn't have to be particularly fancy.
I've been meaning to leave Google forever (and moved my blog ages ago), I just figured I'd do it when they inevitably forced me to join Google+ and they never did. But the stupid forced birthday calendar sent me over the edge.
NoiseDesign - Feb 20, 2015 5:39:27 pm PST #24368 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
Hey, Drew, did the Protools 11 compatibility thing with the Waves plugins get resolved? I think my incoming laptop will only run 11, but I wanted to make sure before I upgraded the desktop.
Sorry I'm late in answering this. Yes, it all works now, you just need to update to the AAX version of the plugs. I'm running the full Mercury bundle on PT 11 on two machines now, and the latest versions of PT also behave with Yosemite.
esse - Feb 20, 2015 8:47:40 pm PST #24369 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I've also found Outlook.com to be a very decent mail service, with a solid online experience. Never thought I'd say that about MS email!
megan walker - Feb 20, 2015 10:01:49 pm PST #24370 of 25496
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Outlook is what I use for work actually. I do prefer it to both Gmail and Yahoo, though it's not great with formatting cut and paste.
Jessica - Feb 21, 2015 6:20:08 am PST #24371 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've heard really great things about the new Outlook for iOS app - it's not an MS product, it's one they bought, but it's supposed to be the best Gmail client out there right now.
esse - Feb 21, 2015 2:43:46 pm PST #24372 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Outlook the client, or outlook the domain? Either way, solid service. I agree with Jessica, Accompli is a solid product with promise.
Liese S. - Feb 21, 2015 5:30:18 pm PST #24373 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Great, Drew, thanks. I still have to figure out what I'm doing, because I bought a sweet new laptop, but I need to decide if I'm going to try to run 11 on it, and if so, what I'm going to do with the version on desktop.