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I’ve read about Google Apps a number of times on tech blogs and other various tech-related websites and never really realized how powerful and great they are. For those of you who don’t know what web applications power Google Apps – GMail, GTalk and GCalendar and GDocuments are all part of the suite. If you own a domain, you can get these applications added to your domain free of cost. I just added them to my domain. GoDaddy, the company I bought my domain from, doesn’t allow IMAP access for e-mail. I don’t really like the POP solutions they provided or the webmail version of their e-mail, so I searched for a way to use IMAP with my domain’s e-mail. Google Apps for your domain can do just that. I’m currently using it for e-mail, calendar, and documents. My newest contact information is sawyer at anesti dot org. By using Google apps, I get 6 GB of space for my e-mail, vastly superior than GoDaddy’s 100 MB. Haven’t tried Google Apps for your domain? You should, I love it. The setup is easy and Google does most of the work for you, apart from some simple CNAME changes to your domain setup (usually changed with GoDaddy or your DNS provider if you’re using GoDaddy). All of the setup took me less than an hour and I’ve now got my domain’s e-mail in my favorite IMAP-enabled e-mail client of choice, Apple Mail 3.0.

Everyone has their favorite configuration and set of applications once they install a fresh install of their favorite OS. I’m going to catalog the ones I prefer to use for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Some are free, some are not. Many of the non-free applications have free counterparts or similar applications.

Check out the list after the break. More »