Matthew Russell at MacDevCenter has produced a magnificent walkthrough with lavish screenshots for switching your online life from .Mac to Google’s many free apps.

He covers moving and forwarding email from .Mac to Gmail, getting your contacts into Gmail with Address Book to CSV converter and how to extract the Mail.app’s Previous Recipients list from the Envelope Index file in your ~/Library/Mail folder.

Using Google Calendar is next up, including exporting calendars from iCal, Google Calendar’s features and using Google Notifier.

Finally, he talks a bit about gDisk which provides a nice way to use some of your Gmail quota space as file storage.

Whether switching your life from .Mac to Google is a good idea is something that he doesn’t answer.

Tags: Apple Mail, GMAIL, Google calendar, iCal, mail.app, switching

Related posts

• Ubuntu switcher takes a step back to Mac
• Switchers in heaven and hell
• Sneak preview of the new Entourage 2008
• Quickies
• Plugin List update: 11 new entries

This entry was posted on Thursday, 2nd November, 2006 at 9:02 pm and is filed under Apple Mail, Switching. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.