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OK, it has been a few weeks: Where’s our Gmail themes for Google Apps accounts? I’ve grown quite accustomed to my chosen theme with the free Gmail, I’d like to have it on the one I pay for too!

Oh the angst! I can’t log into any of my Google Mail accounts. Not the free Gmail, nor the free Google Apps. Not even the paid Apps Enterprise.

They all give the same “502” error:

Followed by the heart-warming “your Gmail account is experiencing errors” message.

Guess I’m excercise my Enterprise support options to at least try and get an ETA.

[Updated]

Now I can log in, but trying to send mail results in a (#796) error. *sigh*

Many moons ago I tried to use my hosted Google ID (via Google Apps) with meebo and had no success. At the time, I just shrugged and moved on — my regular Google Talk ID was working fine.

Since then, I’ve standardized the office on Google Talk^[1]. I have other IM clients I like and use at work, but sometimes at home it’s nice to be available for work IM. When running Windows I’ve lately been gravitating to Digsby^[2] but when dabbling with Linux I usually fall-back to meebo.