If there were any indication that email still matters, it’s that major webmail providers continue to routinely develop their respective services. Both Google with Gmail and Microsoft with Hotmail have been striving to provide a better user experience to keep users happy. Hotmail Hotmail’s biggest to-do recently has been rebranding, or rather...

One of the best RSS feed readers out there is Google Reader. However one (very) longstanding complaint is that it has no ability to change the name of folders/tags. However there is a workaround, that being to "move" subscriptions from one tag to another. It’s sort of a long roundabout way of doing it, but it least it can be done. Here’s...

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Sharing files and folders between computers is one of the most common applications for a network. You can share single files, folders, even whole drives (bad idea!) if you want to. Sharing a folder is convenient because you simply have to tell Windows to share the folder rather than tell it to specifically share every file in that folder. Windows will...