Our Digital Life, Some Worries!
Yesterday, a short outage occurred to Google mail (Gmail), users from around the world started to feel bad about the continuous outages of Gmail. I don’t want to say why because I know the importance of Google apps especially Gmail to everybody, Thousands of universities, blogs, newspapers and other important parties are connected with Gmail. Maybe as a normal user I may not get any problem because of this, but another parties will be affected by these problems.
What happened yesterday remind me of the worst problem in case loosing my Gmail account! I can’t really imagine this. My blogs, 40+ web services I’m connected with, 250+ contacts, university and my training academy! Oh God, that’s really bad. I don’t want to imagine this or even to think that it’s possible and it could happen one day.
And as I don’t wish this to happen to me, also I wish you all to be safe and away of any problem like this. But unfortunately, wishes are not really working in such cases! therefore and to avoid losing any data, do one of these steps (as you like):
1. Contacts: I think the only way to sync your contacts from Gmail and to save them is to create a new email address – Not on Gmail – and lets say Yahoo! then perform a weekly synchronization for your contacts from Gmail to Yahoo. this will be really helpful.
2. Desktop: Run a POP3/IMAP desktop app like Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo! Zembra or any other desktop app. The reason behind using a desktop app is to get a full access to your Gmail (Contacts, Messages folders, and etc) although the problem itself. That’s because POP3 and IMAP are “under level” Protocols which means you will be able to pass your emails from and to your Gmail without having any problem, because only HTTP protocol will be affected by Gmail problem.
If you know any other ways such a web service or any app, Do not be stingy! share it please. Let’s wish the best luck to Sergey Brin and Larry Page 
