So, you’re going on vacation? Gonna be away from your computer for a while? If you’d like, you could always email every single one of your contacts to let them know where you’re going to be, and for how long. Alternatively, you could simply set up an auto-responder. How it works is pretty simple: Someone emails you, and the client responds back...

If you’re a Hotmail user and use Rules, you may have noticed recently that the "New" button for a new rule doesn’t work. At all. Click-click-click-click-click, and. . . nothing. Why Microsoft is leaving this completely broken for the time being is a mystery. There is a workaround however. It’s slightly tedious and totally stupid you...

For the astute Hotmail user, you may have noticed a header change where the top header bar is now slightly different:This is subtle, but important. All the links are actually consolidated menus. Hover over any and you’ll see this:And yes, SkyDrive (which now allows a 100MB maximum-per-file upload instead of the previous 50MB) is directly accessible...

In the past I’ve shown how to get an image into an email signature using a mail client. This time I’m going to show how it’s done with the Hotmail email service. In the video below I purposely seek out an image using Google Images, however you can use any image that you already have. For the image hosting, I’m using min.us; I prefer this...

Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail is, if I’m not mistaken, the most-used email in the world. When you combine all the Hotmail domains (hotmail.com, live.com and msn.com and all their country-specific domains), it totals up to a colossal user base. If Hotmail isn’t #1 then they’re at least in the top 5. And if you’re wondering, no,...

Microsoft recently introduced an email alias feature for the popular Hotmail service which, said honestly, is pretty good. This is different from username+alias (which Hotmail already does do as does Gmail) in the respect it’s a true alias that does not reveal your actual Hotmail username. When you use username+alias, your username is obviously still...

Email from Hotmail or Gmail can be searched in a very similar fashion to the way you can search the web. All it takes is knowing the correct operators to use. Why is using operators better? Using operators directly on first search allows you to skip several steps to get to the same result. Instead of having to perform a generic search, you can target a specific...

Microsoft finally finished up the rollout of the all-new Hotmail (the web version, not Windows Live Mail client), so I checked it out to see if anything had been improved. A lot has been improved. Boatloads, in fact. In the past, any update to Hotmail usually resulted in the system being worse, but this time around they’ve reversed that trend for something...

The different between junk (as in spam) and somewhat-junk are the emails you get that are legitimate that you may consider wasteful. Here are a few examples of somewhat-junk mail:Confirmation of email address message when you sign up for a new web service Cancellation notice when you discontinue a web service “You’ve got money!” emails from...

There was a time when Hotmail and Y! Mail allowed the use of inline images when composing an e-mail, but then took away that functionality for whatever reasons. Gmail to the best of my knowledge has never had a native way of using inline images when composing a new message. Using a little copy/paste magic, you can insert inline images when composing a new mail...

The next iteration of the Windows Live suite is called “Wave 4″ by Microsoft. This will include changes both for local and web applications. On the web app side of things, Hotmail is one of the biggies, and Wave 4 is going to bring about several significant changes. The ones you’ll most likely make most note of are:A single file attachment...

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...

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...

Note that this is for the web-based version of Hotmail. If you are using Hotmail with the Windows Live mail client, see this instead. Hotmail does allow for the use of limited HTML in email signatures, and this does include the use of images as long as they are hosted in a public place. All that’s required for you to do this is the following:Use a free...

If you haven’t heard, everybody (like here, here and here in addition to a ton of other places) is talking how a Hotmail phishing attack happened and somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000+ account passwords were leaked. Use Hotmail and think your account is compromised? Well, if you happen to be in European user and your account name started with an A or...

If you use a Windows Live email address, that being any address that ends in @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @live.com, you can access the account right now in the Windows Live Mail client. The immediate advantages of using WL Mail:No ads anywhere in the client No ads sent on outgoing mail Allows for local caching of mail for faster access and being able to read...

Some sites make it easy (more or less) to delete your account if you don’t feel like using it any longer. Others however make it exceedingly difficult. Recently I was going thru my password manager and realized there were a ton of accounts I simply didn’t use anymore, so I figured I’d get rid of them. Some I was successful with, while others.....

Upfront full disclosure: I am not a Hotmail user. However, Hotmail users who also take advantage of Microsoft Outlook might want to grab the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector. This tool allows you to access and control your Hotmail data directly from Outlook 2003/2007: With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or...

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...