When it comes to webmail, be it Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or Gmail, we don’t ask for much. Truly. All we want is the ability to send an receive messages with minimal fuss. Many don’t even bother using the built-in address book or calendar features because as long as the mail keeps flowing, that’s what matters. Being that mail flow is the most...

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...

Overall, the spam protection built into Gmail is very good. Very seldom do I get a message in my Inbox which I mark as spam. On the flip side, however, I have anywhere from 350-400 are in my spam folder at any give time. Personally, I don’t feel the need to spend my time scanning through all these to see if there might be a legit email among the garbage....

It’s rare these days when I come across any app that makes me say, "Wow, now this is useful!" Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop is one of them. When it comes to email, there are many who prefer the convenience of web-based mail but wish there was a local application that looked and acted like a mail client. Zimbra Desktop is it. This software...

Google’s built in spam protection in their Gmail system is very good. However, some messages manage to get through and clicking ‘Report Spam’ removes it from your inbox but does not necessarily prevent future messages from the sender. The solution is using a blacklist, but unfortunately this is not immediately offered by Gmail. The solution is...

Gmail users may have noticed a new link on their left side navigation bar titled ‘Tasks’. This new function is a simple To Do List. You can read about all the features and shortcuts here, but it doesn’t really offer anything exciting outside of its native integration into Gmail and Google Calendar. Many of you may already be using Remember The...

Beta, to the best of my understanding, is a level of completion concerning software development. There’s the alpha stage, which loosely translates to "this is the very early stage; it’s very rough around the edges". Then comes the beta stage which usually means "almost everything works but its still somewhat buggy". After that...

If you are a user of Gmail and prefer to monitor your inbox by just having it sit minimized in your task bar, you probably have noticed the order of the page title elements (Gmail – Inbox (x) – email) can cut off the view of new messages when you have several programs open. This is no longer a problem with the Title Bar Tweak from Gmail Labs. Simply...

Gmail users who are looking to add additional markers (other than text and color) to their labels should check out this article titled: Customize Your Gmail Labels with Unicode Characters. This is a great idea as the author points out you can create logical groupings without and additional add-ons. Combine this with the ability to color code your different...

Have you ever sent and email and then realized a second later that you forgot an attachment or didn’t include some information? We all have. To help with this problem, Gmail has introduced a new add-in from their Labs section appropriately named ‘Undo Send’: Oops, hit “Send” too soon? Give yourself a grace period of a few seconds to...

For those of you out there who choose to use a traditional email client with IMAP to connect to Gmail (of which there are many of you), you may have noticed that checking your Gmail can at times be a bit on the slow side. A reason for this may be because you’re subscribed to all IMAP folders in "full download" mode. If you unsubscribe from...

For you GMail users out there who like the threaded view (such as myself) looking to make Outlook behave the same way, be sure to check out this post: Give Outlook a GMail Conversation view. The author walks you through the entire process of setting up your Outlook inbox to behave like GMail. It is pretty simple to do and you can always go back to the standard...

Situation: You’re up in the wee hours of the morning (around 1 or 2am) and find this oh-so cool YouTube video that you want to e-mail to your friends. However if you send off the link at that time of the night everybody knows when you sent it. You are basically admitting to all “Yes, I was up at two in the morning doing stupid stuff on my...

Most of us like to be notified of new email messages without having to go to the inbox itself. Linux users who use Gmail as their preferred client are no exception, so here is a very nice article which points out some available programs for automatically checking your Gmail inbox. The author discusses 4 different tools which can be used, but cutting to the...

Situation: You have a Gmail account and want to switch over to a Hotmail account – or – you want to do the exact reverse and switch from Hotmail to Gmail – and you want to keep all your existing mail. This article will show you in detail how to do this – and you will be able to import all your existing mail with timestamps, sent mail and...

You have a Gmail account but want to switch to another one. Most people do this when they want to set up a “business” Gmail account or simply because they found an Gmail e-mail name they like better. You could enable POP on the old account and retrieve the mail in the new Gmail account that way, but then the timestamps get all reset to...

You heard all the wonderful things I said about cloud computing in the last article, and I mentioned that the transition process – while easy – takes a bit to explain how it’s done. This article explains how it’s done in easy-to-understand terms. We’ll be using Outlook Express 6 as our example. There are many who use this program as...

Modern day home computing is not as it once was. Not-so long ago it used to be that in order to bring the most potential out of your computer box you had to use proprietary software. Any app that runs solely on a specific operating system is proprietary. And yes there’s still lots of this stuff out there. For the past few years I have been slowly...

This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail. Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, it’s still a force to be...

This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail. Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, it’s still a force to be...