There are so many nice things that are coming up everyday, but I have not found one good thing that I can use for all purposes. Take the following list:

1. GMail - excellent mail program, but is only available on the web. There is POP access, but I can’t access it through 2 POP clients like Outlook. It marks the messages read as soon as the first client accesses it. Shame, because if they gave me IMAP access, I would probably not even download all my messages, given the disk space.

2. Blogger - wonderful, easy-to-use program to blog, but it does not provide me password-protection. What if there was something I wanted to post exclusively for some people and not for the whole world? Can’t do that. Besides, I can never keep track of comments that I make on others' blogs, and others making comments on my blog.

3. Yahoo Mail - nice, clean interface. No POP access though, in the free version. Now that they have bumped up the storage to 1GB, I would like to see IMAP, or any other way to keep folders (including Sent Mail) in sync between computer and web interface.

4. Yahoo 360 - A little confusing, but a good idea to blend various social networking aspects like blogs, sharing reviews, messenger, etc. in one place. But I can’t create more than one blog, and I can’t let multiple guys write on the same blog.

5. Flickr - Excellent public-hosted photo tagging and display tool, but in order to make photos ‘private’, the users have to sign up and create a flickr account. Not sure if I could ask all my friends and family to sign up for their own account.

6. Picasa - My current computer-based photo organization tool. Simple, light and easy-to-use. But it does not have a corresponding web host to put the pictures online for people to put.

7. LaunchCast - Excellent internet-based radio, especially if you have LaunchCast Plus which allows unlimited skipping. But it does not include Yahoo Music Unlimited, which is basically On Demand music listening.

8. MSN Spaces - Provides an alternative to blogger in terms of permissions for users, but like flickr, MSN needs each user to sign in to passport. But unlike flickr, passport is probably less harsher for users because there is a chance that they have already signed up for hotmail at some point in their lives.

I could keep listing products and services I use … all of which are 90% there, but none of them are 100%.

Just venting.