You are currently using 149 MB (3%) of your 4482 MB

That’s directly out of my Gmail account as of this morning. Some people like to keep their email clean, and delete everything. I tend to let my mail pile up and up and up and up…

The thing is, that amount available to you has just increased and you may not have noticed. It happened a few weeks ago when it jumped to 2.9 gigabytes and then again on the 23rd of October, where it increased another 1.5 gigs to 4.5 gb total.

And it doesn’t stop there. Google keeps adding more and more space, despite having a plan where you can pay to have additional storage.

By January 4th of 2008, which is only a few months away, you’ll have about 6 gigabytes available to you. By 2038, if email is still around, you’ll have 42 gigs. Wow.

So there you have it. You really don’t need to delete mail at all, because you’ll likely never run out of space.

Why keep your email? Well, Google has such a great ability to search through old email, that it’s worth it to just hang onto them. I tend to use the search feature a lot, to find things I lost, like perhaps a license key, or a username and password I forgot.

If you aren’t using Gmail, you might want to think about it. Being stuck using Outlook or some other Operating System-based program will hold you back from the freedom to check your email anywhere you are.

I wrote a blog about all of this, and you should check it out if you want to know more.

Google Docs has been around for awhile already. I wrote about how you can use it for writing documents and doing spreadsheets. The cool thing is that they are kept on the web, so you can work on them from anywhere, and also share them with anyone and the latest version is always the one you see. No need to email documents to people anymore…just send them the link to the published version on Google Docs.

Anyways, this week Google finally released Google Presentation, which is their answer to Microsoft PowerPoint. It now gives you even MORE reason to move all your document creation and development online. Most of their Google Doc apps allow you to save them in Microsoft format if you wish, so it’s easy to share will people in your Microsoft-based office.

And if you are interested in how it works compared to PowerPoint, Mashable has already written up a comparison blog about it. Check it out.

So there you go…exciting news if you get into this stuff.

I’ve never wanted to make the switch to Linux. Why? Well, it takes a bit more work to make things go sometimes. It’s not for computer novices. You can’t run Windows programs on it, like Word, Excel or whatever.

However, when I wrote about my switch to Web 2.0 and Google Mail, online chat, online backups, etc., this final step was needed to totally complete the move. I never talked about it, but the thing is, Linux is free! And it’s getting better all the time.

There are various forms of Linux out there, like Red Hat or Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu, which is an African word for ‘Humanity to others’, or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. This Ubuntu project is run by a billionaire who hired people to do this. He isn’t making a red cent from it, he only wants to help further the open source movement. Free stuff.

Anyways, now both my home and office computers are running Linux and I couldn’t be happier.

And this completes #53 on my 101 in 1001 list!

Edited: I am just editing this because of comment Scott made below. I made the point about not being able to run Windows programs, like Word, Excel, etc., but the thing is, Linux has their own programs to do that. Like OpenOffice, which does all the things Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access does. Windows has Photoshop that costs about $500, but you can download “The Gimp” for free on Linux and it does most of the same things.

In fact, with Ubuntu, I can search for programs in a Universal Database, right from my desktop, check mark them and hit apply. It downloads, installs and tells me when it’s done. And I’ve yet to encounter one that makes me reboot afterwards.

It’s pretty slick.

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