UPDATE: I was right, tonight Google announced Google Groups is now part of Google Apps for Domains!

This morning I noticed a change in the way emails sent to a group (formerly known as list) email address on google apps for domains appear. Below is an example of the bottom of the email headers on an email sent to one of my groups on nick.pro:

On the other hand here is the bottom of the email headers on an email sent to that same group today:

As you can see in these images, a few new list specific header lines have been added that make lists appear more like they were handled by more traditional mailing list software, rather then a simple email forwarder.

I've confirmed this change seems to have happened today as emails to groups as recently as yesterday do not have the additional headers, while emails to the same groups today have the additional headers, hop past the break to see a breakdown of the 4 new headers and what I think this change means:

NickMoline: I should have known it was you... RT @TheRaj: Dude. I think I just took down GMail. I knew I shouldn't have hit Refresh...

See original: I should have known it was you... RT @TheRaj: Dude. I think I just took down GMail. I knew I shouldn't have hit Refresh...

NickMoline: +1 RT @thinkgeek: Will the elevator ever work!? RT @billprady Submit your #bigbangtheory spoiler questions today -- I will answer the dull

See original: +1 RT @thinkgeek: Will the elevator ever work!? RT @billprady Submit your #bigbangtheory spoiler questions today -- I will answer the dull

Yesterday I retweeted a post by ReadWriteWeb concerning Yahoo's announcement that they are closing down GeoCities this year.

This was particularly sad news for me because GeoCities was where my first website was hosted.

So I upgraded to the 2.1 software this morning on my iPhone. There aren't any new features, but the array of fixes that Apple promises with the new update are much needed, if it turns out to work.

• Increased Call Stability
• Better Battery Life
• Faster Backups
• Faster interface

I'm reserving overall judgment, but so far it seems to be working just like Apple said it would.

I wish I was posting this as a follow up to an announcement, but actually it's a suggestion to Amazon on how they can make more money, sell more Kindle books, and make more people happy.

I love Google Apps for Domains, I use it for all of my domains, I've even setup holodeck3.com with the Partner edition so that my users can get @holodeck3.com email accounts and services through them. Google does a lot, for free, and they do it well. I'm also a Mac an an iPhone user. I am never without my iPhone, and only rarely without my laptop.

Google has, over time gotten a lot better at providing me with services I need in order to keep my world more in sync. I was glad to be in the early adoption crowd of users for IMAP on GMail, and the first person among my group of friends to get IMAP support on my Google Apps for Domains accounts. This has helped a lot as my iPhone is now what I use for email when I'm away from my laptop, and in fact I find myself not going to the computer quite as often when I'm "off duty" because of it.

I love Google Calendar and prefer to have my calendar events in Google as opposed to simply a local Calendar on my computer or phone, however when I am at my computer, using iCal is so much easier then using Google Calendar (and having to keep yet another browser window open), and then of course there's the little matter of keeping my calendar on the iPhone so I have my events easily at hand. Google has long allowed you to subscribe to a Google Calendar using iCal's ics format, but this was one way, only allowing you to read your Google calendar in iCal, not make changes to it. Until very recently the best way to keep iCal in sync with Google Calendar is to use Spanning Sync, a $25 program (use this link and you can get $5 off!), that keeps your calendar in iCal in sync both ways with your calendar on Google.

In the latest in my ongoing series of Major websites experiencing outages, GMail has been down for at least the last hour. Google's Mail service is excellent and over all I've always been pleased with it.

Often when someone wants to indicate that a task doesn't take a genious, they relate the task to one of two professions, and so two common phrases you will hear on a regular basis are "Hey, it's not Rocket Science" and similarly "Hey, it's not Brain Surgery." This seems a strange way to start a blog post, but trust me, you'll understand in a moment.

I've updated Cap's Log to the new Wordpress 2.1, though this may only be temporary, I'm planning on combining it and several other blogs I manage into a Wordpress MU installation once I'm sure that MU works. In other news, after listening to this week's episode of MacBreak Weekly, I've started messing around with Twitter.