28.04.2009 09:15:51
The centerpiece of the desktop pc is the email client.
I don't know about you but the first application I look for
inside my desktop is the email handler. The email client
also collects the feeds from various news orgs, blogs and
articles in the internet. If your internet site has RSS or
something similar then it goes to my email client.
The email client slash feed reader must also keep tabs
of my contacts and contact information. This bundle of
information might include their names, address, contact
number, email address, blog url, (anything on how to get
in touch with them), day of birth, anniversary, anything
I have to remember about the contact. This can be a fair
amount of information, a vital piece of information (for
a sales representative perhaps) or something that can break
a relationship if forgotten.
The email client that I use has calendars and appoint-
ment keeping functions. Why separate this from the email
function? People sometimes want to have light apps doing
only one thing. It doesn't matter to me one way or the
other, as long as they work fine. The trouble with one
big heavy application to handle email, contacts and noti-
fications/alerts, is resource requirement and built-in
buggyness. The application is doing a lot in the back-
ground and not paying attention to user input(keyboard
and mouse clicks) then hangs. Then waits an interminable
time for an answer from a server. Then hangs once again.
Then user says it's buggy. The application is doing what
it's suppose to do.
What we need is to improve the email client because
it is important to the desktop.
The centerpiece of the desktop pc is the email client.
I don't know about you but the first application I look for
inside my desktop is the email handler. The email client
also collects the feeds from various news orgs, blogs and
articles in the internet. If your internet site has RSS or
something similar then it goes to my email client.
The email client slash feed reader must also keep tabs
of my contacts and contact information. This bundle of
information might include their names, address, contact
number, email address, blog url, (anything on how to get
in touch with them), day of birth, anniversary, anything
I have to remember about the contact. This can be a fair
amount of information, a vital piece of information (for
a sales representative perhaps) or something that can break
a relationship if forgotten.
The email client that I use has calendars and appoint-
ment keeping functions. Why separate this from the email
function? People sometimes want to have light apps doing
only one thing. It doesn't matter to me one way or the
other, as long as they work fine. The trouble with one
big heavy application to handle email, contacts and noti-
fications/alerts, is resource requirement and built-in
buggyness. The application is doing a lot in the back-
ground and not paying attention to user input(keyboard
and mouse clicks) then hangs. Then waits an interminable
time for an answer from a server. Then hangs once again.
Then user says it's buggy. The application is doing what
it's suppose to do.
What we need is to improve the email client because
it is important to the desktop.
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