Oh Jan already mentioned this. Ignore me. Tom
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > Among gandi's (http://gandi.net) wonderful features are roundcube and a > sizeable mail quota. I like gandi even more now. > > Tom > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for all of the wonderful replies! It looks like I'll eventually >> set up some of these on my own server. >> >> And I did mean Google Tasks. In Swedish it's Google Lists. I like that >> you can associate dates with the tasks so that they show up in your >> calendar as incomplete or completed. >> >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hey Tom, >> > >> >> I'd like to move away from my wonderful, integrated, proprietary, >> >> web-based Google Services Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Lists and >> >> Google Docs. I ask for suggestions of what to move to. >> > >> > Great plan! I just finished doing the same, more or less. :) >> > And sorry in advance for the linkdump, just trying to help. >> > >> > >> >> Email is probably the most important as my whole life is in there. >> >> Proprietary Google searches lead me to >> >> http://www.gnumail.org >> >> http://www.runbox.com >> >> http://www.fastmail.fm >> >> These don't seem any cheaper than running a mail server on a virtual >> >> private server, which would be more flexible. I don't think that would >> >> be too annoying either. Thoughts on that? >> > >> > I haven’t heard of those at all. At the moment, I have a domain at >> > https://gandi.net/ >> > They use Roundcube as frontend, which is awesome but unfortunately has no >> > own hosting service: http://roundcube.net/ >> > I am going to move over to my account at http://tuxfamily.org but the >> > domain is still at Gandi. >> > >> > So, what you want is probably a mail account at https://riseup.net/ (big >> > thanks to Parker for recommending them to me again!). But I don’t know >> > about their exact approval criteria. The sole reason I am not using them >> > is that they only have SquirrelMail and IMP which I am both a bit sick of. >> > :) >> > >> > By all means let me know how it works out if you’re going for them. >> > >> > >> >> There are a bunch of desktop calendar applications, and I'm sure some >> >> of them are more awesome than Google Calendar. How does one sync them >> >> across computers and version/backup them? My inclination is to use git >> >> on a plain text calendar file if I'm not satisfied by the more >> >> conventional approaches. >> > >> > If you plan on using git, you might want to look at >> > http://sparkleshare.org/ – it is basically a frontend for git in the style >> > of Dropbox (made by an awesome GNOME guy). You can sync to >> > http://gitorious.org as well as GitHub and your own server. >> > >> > For public events, you can do as I do and use http://grical.org/ >> > They have groups, I made one for me and add any event I plan to go to >> > there. >> > >> > >> >> I *love* Google Lists for entering school assignment due dates, but >> >> it's currently very closed, with no importing or exporting. It may be >> >> less useful once I graduate in May as I'm likely not to have >> >> assignments due every day, but some more advanced equivalent would be >> >> wonderful. Does anyone know of an equivalent for this? >> > >> > I have not heard of Google Lists, do you mean Google Tasks (in Gmail)? >> > Currently, I manage any personal events or todos by just putting them in >> > an EtherPad. I have an account at http://titanpad.com/ , an awesome >> > EtherPad instance hosted by 3 Debian guys. You can lock the document up >> > with a password so everything’s cool. >> > >> > >> >> I don't use Google Docs much except for short-term collaboration with >> >> mortals, and I don't mind using it that for situations like that. For >> >> other situations, git and ssh is better. And I can use Gobby for >> >> brainwriting. >> > >> > For any kind of text collaboration, EtherPad is way superior to Google >> > Docs (the document part). It does not need login, has a dead-simple and >> > beautiful interface, integrated chat, nice colors to see who wrote what >> > and can export to free formats. So here as well, http://titanpad.com/ is >> > the way to go. >> > >> > >> > If you need anymore freedom; I currently build a directory of free and >> > open web services at http://libreprojects.net/ >> > >> > Let me know how it goes and feel free to mail me when you have any >> > problems. :) >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
