Posted by Sundi Hayes in 
If you haven’t read about my Goolge revolt on Patriot Day you can see it here.
My cold-turkey Goolge stoppage has gone pretty well.
Thanks to Rachael (@caffeinatedelf) I found Inbox. Not only has Inbox replaced my GoogleMail service but also my Toodledo and GoogleCalendar. Inbox has addressed another problem I had and that was file storage. So, now I have 30 GB of online storage for files and photos (Inbox provides a photo album too) plus my webmail and it costs me about $30 a year. A small price to pay in order to leave Google.
For my search engine I’m currently using Bing. I don’t have any complaints, nor am I overly impressed with it. I’d be open to suggestions if anyone wants to throw some my way.
I’m back at Bloglines as a replacement for GReader. Well, actually I’m not really back because no matter where I load my opml export from GReader it truncates about a quarter of the way through. I’ve tried it on three different readers with the same result. Nice!
Something I didn’t think about when I decided to Google exit was dropping the verb “google” from my vocabulary. Honestly the transition has been seamless which surprises me.
The ONLY thing I miss about GMail is being able to chat in the same screen. That has brought serious withdrawal. I was a Meebo fan before because of the purely web-based ability to use multiple services in one location. I haven’t dropped GChat all together for the simple fact some people I chat with only use GChat. So, I’ve now added that to my Meebo service. I guess they’ve got me there!
All in all, I feel like I’m fighting the good fight. Never forget!
Nibbling away -
Sundi
