Download Squad Week in Review

By Brad Linder | February 9, 2008

Whether you’re looking for a beta invitation code to a hot new service, tips on making the most of your email service, or a Valentine’s day present for that special someone in your life, we’ve got you covered. Here are some of our favorite Download Squad articles from the week that was.

Invites for Digsby and SugarSync

This week we looked at two new services in private beta. Digsby is desktop application that lets you manage multiple email, IM, and social networking accounts. It’s sort of like Pidgin plus an email notifier and a desktop client for Facebook and MySpace. And we’ve got 5,000 invites to give away.

We also have about 500 invites for SugarSync, another new desktop/web service. SugarSync lets users synchronize files between their computer, mobile device, and a web server. Just add contact/calendar sync and we’d be in heaven.

Email user interface advancement - Emailers Anonymous

Google made a lot of waves when it launched an email service a few years ago. The idea of a web mail account that measured storage in gigabytes rather than megabytes was pretty revolutionary at the time. But vast amounts of storage aren’t the only thing that set Gmail apart. In this week’s edition of Emailers Anonymous we take a look at threaded messaging and how it changes the way we think of email.

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