I´m a big fan of Google, always have been and guess, if it keeps getting better always will, but there was one thing that bugged me about GMail; you could never send from your own domain without the users client showing it was coming from your GMail account.

That isn´t so bad, it´s only an email, but it was the one thing stopping me using GMail for all my email, instead I kept using Thunderbird and my very own email address. I used GMail rarely and only for non important stuff, but for work, I would still use my desktop, only because when I sent mail, it was sent from me and not from Google.

It was actually quite annoying and I had almost come close to not using GMail any longer, but keeping it like you keep yourHotmail account, but today that has changed.

I´m just checking my GMail when I went on one of my clicking trips and I ended up at Google Apps and you can now assign a domain name, probably been able to for a while, but I´ve just found it. By adding your own domain, it allows you to send mail from it and it even looks like you are sending it from it, because you actually are.

What that means is, I can now have all my email hosted by Google, enjoy all the usual stuff like Google Docs, Calender and Chat but as my own business name and if I send an email it looks like it came from me and not Google. I´ve still got lots of things to check out and I´m hoping for a surprise or two that you don´t find with the free version of GMail and Google Apps, but for now, I´m happy.

I still have a bit of work to do on setting it all up but very soon, I´ll have all my mail and all my documents online, accessible by me whenever I want and from wherever I want.

Yes, there is an annual fee but it isn´t much, especially not when you add up all the excellent features you get and while I could have just continued with the free version, this means I don´t need to have two active email accounts and I can access absolutely everything in one place.

So, it wont be long before everything is going to get done online and when Google release a version of Chrome for my Ubuntu netbook, I´ll be even happier.