This is a "wish post". I'm a huge fan of Google Apps, I love using my @computerdefense.org email address with everything Google and having it inside of GMail is great. However there are a number of labs features that I would love to have access to and don't get because I use Google Apps intead of GMail. So this is a request that Google make the Labs feature of GMail available to Google Apps users.
I learned something rather cool today, and whenever I learn something, I like to share it.
I'm sure everyone is aware of this and I'm the last one to learn about it, but it's cool anyways. Let's say your GMail (or Google Apps account) is example@gmail.com. You can create customized addresses for each mailing list, or page you sign up for (for separation, or to see if anyone is selling your address) by using + in your email.
Example:
example+computerdefense.org@gmail.com will still be delivered to example@gmail.com, however it will contain that unique identifier in the address. This allows you to identify spam that computerdefense.org may generate (of course, that would never happen), or to distinguish incoming email.
Another potential use (especially on the Google Apps side) is for a small business with a sales office. Let's say you have 20 customers, you could easily distinguish between mail from each customer by giving them the following addresses sales+customer1@mybusiness.com, sales+customer2@mybusiness.com, etc.
As I said, this is probably old news... but it's new to me, so I figured I'd share.
About 15 minutes ago I had connection problems with my Google Apps account. My web-based Google Chat had disappeared, so I closed my browser and reopened it, but it's gone... completely gone... the Chat tab is even gone inside my settings options.
Anybody got any ideas?
The X represents where the Chat Window normally is and the arrow points to where the chat settings would normally be.
Update:
Alex Word just pointed out that this is back up now. Thanks Alex!