You may have seen my recent rant about the University of Reading’s e-mail software. I got so fed up, in fact, that I decided to do something about it.

That something was to “migrate” my University e-mail to Google Mail. With a release a few months ago, Google gave Mail the complete toolset you need to get it to act as a mail client for your Uni account – seamlessly. This wasn’t the only reason, though – with a Google account, the mail and contacts sync much better with my Nexus One.

Here’s how I migrated so you can too – in about 15 minutes.

So recently I finally got my hands on a Google Wave invite (many thanks to @amykate for that one), and had a bit of a chance to sit down and see what’s what.

My invite seemed to come with a bit of an influx, and quite a few people I was following got theirs too. Initially the reaction seemed very much to be “so what can I do with this?”, rapidly followed by “this is a let-down”.  I was working and hardly in a position to give it a good go, and what better way to test the features out than with a screencast? Check it out below.