More and more people are getting the privilege of jumping onto the Gmail Beta Tester Bandwagon with the recent outbreak of invites going out. Some people who couldn’t win contests (see Sixthseal and Sashi-isms) are forced to search out alternatives to the monster size email service.
Upon reading about Spymac on some people’s comments, (yea it’s also a 1GB Email account) I decided to check it out, of coz this is after stopping by at aventuremail.com only to find that it’s also for the Special Club members only. (means no signing up of new members)
So, I signed up at Spymac, a very pretty looking Mac oriented site. I particularly loved the Spy related graphics, simply BEAUtiful. Here’s my take on Spymac vs Gmail.
1) Spymac being really beautiful means it utilises mega many graphics, hence the slowness of loading the pages. Not recommended for the impatient, coz it really takes a while, compared to Gmail’s split second load up.
2) Spymac doesn’t have all the nifty conversation, label and search style that Gmail has, it’s email function is a direct typical email layout.
3) Aside from Email, Spymac offers other services. It gave me a new free blog, a gallery, auction manager and forum. I don’t think I would be using it all, aside from the Gallery. It’s pretty cool coz I get 250Mb of space in there, that’s quite enough to store all the pics like the one above for free! IT definitely loads faster than my other image host, imgspot.com. That’s another review.
4) Spymac is kinda like an online community game as well. Being a new user, I’m considered a SPy in Training. Apparently, users get to upgrade their status depending on their usage of SpyMac. Now that’s pretty fun if you’ve got a fantasy to be involved in the Spy world.
Overall, I still prefer my Gmail, as I like fast results. Spymac on the other hand has its many benefits too, I think Mac users would just love it! I still haven’t figure out some other features, like how to utilise the 100MB Spydisk, and how to modify the webpage they me without using their hosting plans.
Plus this is a great alternative to Gmail, till you get your Gmail, give this a try!
I am just going to write a review on SpyMac. 😉
Hehe speak your mind, would love to read ur reviews too!
Hey, recently Yahoo!Mail increased the free capacity to 100MB.
That’s the wonder of competition…
you can use the 100 mb’s of webspace with an FTP-program. Like WS_FTP or CUTE FTP..
The slowness of Spymac doesn’t bother me.. it’s stil way faster then Hotmail 🙂
But I never had the chance to try gmail.. due to al the secrecy… nobody ever send me an invitation 🙁