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While the procedure for setting up a Gmail IMAP account in Apple Mail is pretty straightforward, less so is the one to do the same on Windows Live Mail (“WLM” from now on). Despite Microsoft’s claims that WLM has native support for Gmail (according to which it’s enough to enter one’s e-mail address and the application will choose the right settings), there are two important limitations: 1. the automatic setup works only if the Gmail account is set to work on the POP3 protocol; 2. Google Apps accounts (that is those on custom domains) are not automatically recognized, since they do not end with @gmail.com. »

Another reason to like Mail.app is its unified inbox. Long-time POP users will not see what the big deal is, since POP e-mail accounts are by definition stored in a unified inbox. This happens easily, since POP messages lose all links to their home server once they are downloaded. Users of clients other than Apple Mail who switch from POP to IMAP are usually annoyed at the fact that each IMAP account shows up as a separate folder structure, along with an extra local structure (which an IMAP-only user never actually needs). »

Google’s announcement that a new browser called Chrome is under development in its labs can’t but constitute good news for web developers, designers and (obviously) users.

Considering Google’s involvement in building some of the most used web-based applications (Gmail being only the most popular one), it makes sense that it would want its users to experience these applications the best possible way. »