Notice any difference between the two images above?  That’s right.  Google Apps, at long last, is out of beta.  This includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk.

The image above is a selection of a screen shot from GMail showing a status bar when attempting to attach a file in GMail.  I’ve read somewhere that this may be happening soon, but today is the first I’ve seen it in the wild, in my GMail.  I applaud this move.  Nothing is more frustrating than waiting around for a video attachment to upload while the whole office gripes that someone is hogging all the bandwidth.  Now I can at least gauge the progress.

Love how Gmail time stamps the above mail message “negative one minutes ago.”  Apparently this online email application can time travel.  Who knew.

Thought I’d never see this day.  My circa 1995 Hotmail account finally allows me to forward email to another account.  A sane move by Microsoft and Hotmail.

But there is always a catch. All your forwarded mail gets deleted from the Hotmail site. No big deal there. But the catch is that you still have to log in to Hotmail every 120 days “in order to help fight junk”. Which is BS. At the very least there ought to be a way to verify your Hotmail — prove that you are a real person — and never have to log in to that monstrosity of a site again.

Update:  I was wrong.  You can’t really do this the way I said.