There are certain times when you need to access your instant messenger from the web rather than from a client. For example, if you’re at a friend’s house and want to login on his or her PC for a few minutes, it’s the easiest way to get chatting without installing anything. The Big Three are AIM, Yahoo and Windows Live (formerly MSN). AIM The...

The primary email address I use is from my personal domain name. After all, that’s one of the perks of having your own web site, right? A problem I routinely encounter is getting people to remember my email address. Is it a long address? No. It is difficult to spell? Not in the slightest. But it does have two things going against it. First is the fact it...

It’s easy enough to forward one e-mail address to another. However it’s a different story when it comes to migrating a domain-based e-mail address.You have a domain, www.example.com. You have a hosted e-mail address, you@example.com. You want to keep your domain host where it is, but host your e-mail elsewhere (such as Google Apps or Windows Live...

A really, really long time ago, people accessed their e-mail using text-based clients. One popular (said loosely) client was PINE. When I say text-based, I mean text-based. No GUI. No JavaScript. No images. No formatted fonts. No HTML. Nothing but text. There are a smattering of people on the internet that to this day swear by PINE and absolutely will not use...