Google has added a Global Address List feature to Google Apps Education Edition called shared contacts. This feature has now been enabled for the csp.edu domain. For more information check out Google’s New Features page.

There is a great article on lifehack.org describing 20 different ways to uses Gmail’s filters. Everything from automatically emptying your Spam folder to setting up an easy way to find certain types of attachments.

(Via lifehack.org)

Click here for a review of Google Apps by PC Magazine

Gmail has doubled the allowed attachment size to 20 MB.  This is double the size that Concordia’s Exchange server allows.  I am not certain if this will take affect for Google Apps for Domains right away, but most features are tested first in public gmail before moving to domain gmail.  It is worth noting that many e-mail servers will deny attachments over 10MB, so this is an interesting transition for them to make.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/gmail-doubles-maximum-attachment-size.html

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Here is a post about accessing Google Calendar via Mobile Phones.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/calendar-for-mobile-devices.html

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I was reading my feeds this morning and noticed that Dell will ship Ubuntu as an alternative operating system on their PCs.  I am curious how they are going to make wireless more comfortable on a laptop model, but it is good news all around for open source initiative folks.
I am hoping this summer to spend a bit of time with Fiesty Fawn in order to test the new wireless features on the Concordia Laptops.

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Google has released a video on their official Google Channel on Youtube about how to use Google Apps to improve productivity.

[via YouTube]

Google has announced that it will be adding a presentation piece, similar to Powerpoint, to its Google Docs suite.  It is expected to be available this summer.

(via Slashdot)

This weekend, while sending notices to off-campus colleagues of an upcoming event, I ran into Google email sending limits. I am currently locked out of sending email from my csp.edu account! Supposedly my access will be restored in 24-72 hours. The google policy is here. Rants are here and here.
IMHO, this policy (for which I cannot get the exact specifics) may be a deal breaker. And I do not find the alternative of setting up google groups as an appealing alternative. CSP needs the ability to send large quantities of email to large groups (to students in a college, to a recruitment group, to an event group, to all student, to all alumni, etc.). And nothing is more inconvenient than being locked out!!!

(seen at the bottom of my email screen)

They’re even willing to teach me how to use my university in more languages. I don’t think Outlook can do that!