One thing I loved about Anita (the name I gave to my mac’s sentience) when I got her is the simplicity and easy access of an email client. I’ve been using email clients since before I switched to a mac since I found it handy when I needed to refer to emails for certain instructions or notes from friends about different things even though we didn’t use the internet as heavily in high school as I do now in college.
I’ve gone through Netscape Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird (my favorite PC mail client so far) and now I use Mail (the pre-installed mail application in mac os x). One thing I can conclude so far is that I cannot live without an email client application.
Though the trend in technology is switching to doing everything on the web (including email accessed from browsers we know as webmail ex. Gmail). I still find the usefulness of email clients to be undeniable specially when you live in the Philippines where wifi access isn’t always possible. This is even more useful if your in school doing a lot of org work/ group work or you work in a field that needs fast information decimation. Continue reading “Why use POP or IMAP email clients” »