Chris Gonyea » google apps http://chrisgonyea.com Random thoughts and ramblings Fri, 11 May 2012 19:13:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The plan to move to Gonyea.com http://chrisgonyea.com/archives/2010/07/06/the-plan-to-move-to-gonyea-dot-com/ http://chrisgonyea.com/archives/2010/07/06/the-plan-to-move-to-gonyea-dot-com/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:27:29 +0000 Chris http://chrisgonyea.com/?p=993 Continue reading →]]> A few months ago I acquired Gonyea.com from a domain squatter. I haven’t done much with the domain due to time restraints, but I am edging closer to at least begin working on moving over my online presence to it. Here are my initial plan:

I have signed up for Google Apps for the domain. The free version does everything I need, whether it is e-mail, calendar, contacts, etc. I do not need to worry about running a mail server and I can use Google Apps on any device I own.

In one sense, moving e-mail over to Google Apps would be easy. Setup a filter on Gmail to do all of the hard work and that is it. Yet it really isn’t that easy. The perfectionist in me would require that every online account I own be immediately switched over, which will take hours to do all of the updates. Then again, do I really want a bunch of web sites to know about my new e-mail address?

My calendar right now is just hosted on my home computer and isn’t synced in the cloud. I will use this opportunity to move everything over to Google Calendar.

I plan on configuring my iPhone and my iPad to both use Gmail & Google Calendar via the Google Sync feature. Instantly I will have over the air calendar and contact updates, plus push e-mail.

I am almost certain I will just 301 redirect chrisgonyea.com to chris.gonyea.com. I just have to setup the proper .htaaccess rules and setup WordPress on chris.gonyea.com.

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