Since the release of MobileMe by Apple, I’ve been wondering about what I’m going to do with my galloway.me.uk domain now that there’s options like this out there. I looked into MobileMe but it doesn’t allow you to have email addresses like @galloway.me.uk – only @me.com. This is a bit pointless for a domain hosting service!

So I looked into Google Apps which is essentially a free equivalent of MobileMe. I’ve found that it’s absolutely amazing. Quick & easy to setup and very easy to use. I’ve had a GMail account for a while, but now I have one setup with my matt at galloway dot me dot uk account. This gives me all the benefits of GMail along with IMAP access, Google Docs, Google Calender, etc, etc, etc.

The dashboard for our new family Google Apps is at http://partnerpage.google.com/galloway.me.uk so check that out. I’ve not quite finished porting everything over, but that should happen sometime this week.

Anyway, thanks Google – very pleased!

UPDATE:
I’ve just finished importing all my old emails from the old server into GMail and it’s worked perfectly. I used Thunderbird to drag across my old folders into my new GMail (using IMAP for both servers). It’s worked like a charm and GMail is even clever enough to sort out duplicate emails by only importing one copy (there were a few duplicates left over from a poor IMAP migration of my server host).

So, everything is going great with Google Apps!