On my personal web site I do list an @aol.com email address as the way to contact me. Why? Mainly because I’ve had the address for years, it works, and I really couldn’t give a crap what techies say about it. Techies typically scream out "GMAIL! GMAIL! GMAIL!" I don’t care because Gmail periodically breaks as does Hotmail as does...
Over the course of the weekend I finally received my invite for the new AOL Project Phoenix email service. I had already tried it previously with an @love.com address, but I really wanted one ending in @wow.com which is another domain AOL owns along with @games.com and a few others. I was able to get the @wow.com name I wanted, so life is good – and my...
Most people think the only free email that offers IMAP access is Gmail. Not so. Aol/AIM also has the same capability, which allows you to access your AOL/AIM account via the email client of your choice. If you already know how to configure an email account using IMAP, skip down to the mail servers section below. Why use IMAP? IMAP is better than POP because your...
For those that use an @aol.com email address, you might have noticed an email that appeared to be spam, but it wasn’t. It came from the sender "FooterSettlement" with subject line "OFFICIAL NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPSED SETTLEMENT", and looked like this: This is not spam. In short, what it means is that you now...
More people these days are getting away from instant messenger programs and using the in-browser way, because there really isn’t too much reason to use an IM app these days. Years ago a large chunk of the IM functionality was provided by the application, but that’s not the case anymore. You can do voice, webcam, manage your buddy/contact list and...
From the "I didn’t know AOL had blogs" dept., AOL’s journal service at journals.aol.com is going to the digital graveyard as of October 31, 2008. Another place called peopleconnectionblog.com, winner of a "domain name that’s too frickin’ long" award, has an article stating that if you happen to be one of the poor saps...
AOL Instant Messenger, better known as simply AIM, is my preferred way of instant messaging simply due to the fact it’s the most reliable chat network. Out of all the things AOL does wrong, AIM is the only thing they do right. Windows Live (formerly MSN) and Yahoo both have routine small outages on their networks that can get really irritating really...
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