When it became public that Gmail was introducing POP access I thought it would be fantastic. So once given access I setup Thunderbird as per the instructions and 20MB of messages get downloaded to my inbox. I proceed to sort the sent and received into their appropriate folders. Then I realise: I actually like working in Gmail better than Thunderbird.

It’s not often that I like web apps over their desktop equivalent (although is describing them as equivalent a fair comparison?) I’m can’t explain why; I guess it’s just like not being able to explain why some people prefer chocolate to strawberry. I’m interested to hear what others think.