Now if you do not use Gmail in any professional manner, then this is most likely not worth bothering about. Gmail goes does down so infrequently that I cannot remember the last time I could not get to it.  However, Murphy’s Law says the ONE time it goes down, is the one time you REALLY need to get access.   So here is a link to synchronize your Gmail to Outlook.  Good for making backups too.

BTW, setting up Gmail to Outlook is pretty easy.  Here is tutorial I used..

Connect Gmail to Outlook.

WidePhotoViewer is the most complete photo-viewing app for
the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, with these key features:

— Accesses Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug, and Photo Library
— the only app that can do all four.
— Download albums for offline viewing.
— Choice of thumbnail, grid, full-screen, or slideshow
views.
— Display of titles, captions, camera (EXIF) data, and
comments.
— Direct editing of titles and captions.
— Support for the iPhone/iPod camera.
— Upload directly to Flickr, Facebook, or SmugMug.
— Flickr exploration (interestingness, recent from
everyone, Getty, searches, etc.).

Most of what WidePhotoViewer can do is free. An in-app
upgrade unlocks the premium features, such as uploading,
downloading, and title/caption editing.

So now I read in techcrunch that we are back to long sync times again.  What is it with Apple?  Doesn’t anyone test this stuff before they release it?  Here is an except..

“… One main culprit is what should be a nice, new feature in iTunes 9 called “Automatically fill free space with songs.” It does exactly what it says, finds songs to put on your iPhone to fill it up. This is great for people like me with too large of a music library to sync it all with the iPhone, and who don’t really use playlists (the main way to sync music to the iPhone). Unfortunately, if you click this “Automatically fill free space” option, it seems that sometimes it wants to remove and replace much of the random music. If you have a 32 GB iPhone, that is going to take a while. …”

Siegler goes on saying that even with this option turned off, it still takes too long.  Around 5 min.  If its taking him 5 min, then odds are my sync will be 10.   I was holding off on iTunes9 for the same reason I hold off on every iphone/iTunes update.  Just to make sure I would not regret my decision.   Seems like that caution is appropriate in this case.