This document is old. See this for a better way, with video! In Windows Live Mail (as in the e-mail client and not the web site) the default method for an e-mail signature is nothing but plain text, like this:   You can however create advanced e-mail signatures using the freely available Nvu web page editor. Here’s how it’s done. 1. Download and...

Note: This is for Windows 7 users only. In Windows XP and Vista, when you use the Windows Live Mail client, you can right-click the icon at the bottom so that it only appears as such when the app is minimized: When using the Windows Live Messenger, by default it will also have a small icon: However the problem is that these Windows Live applications do not...

Windows Live Mail is a great email client, no question. But one very longstanding complaint is the way it renders fonts. Whereas in other mail clients it’s stupidly easy to make mails look a specific way for text, in Windows Live Mail (and the previous Outlook Express) it is, put politely, a challenge. This tutorial is how to get the fonts to look...

The junk I’m referring to in this article is physical junk, as in the stuff that lands in your postal mailbox and the telemarketing calls you receive. 1. Make your phone number unlisted. Easy solution but certainly not instant gratification. It may take as long as a year before the calls slow down. Telemarketing companies obviously have copies of the phone...

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...

With many online retailers (like NewEgg, Dell, Dotster, etc.) there is an option at checkout to enter in a coupon code to take some money off the final purchase price, be it a straight value (ex: $25) or a percentage (ex: 15% off). If you do a search for coupon codes, unfortunately you are usually shoved towards affiliate links. This can get frustrating quickly...

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 Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! Mail is one of the oldest free e-mail providers on the internet. It was originally launched on October 8 1997, and to date has one of the largest userbases in the world. [hidepost=1] Working with drafts When...

This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! Mail is one of the oldest free e-mail providers on the internet. It was originally launched on October 8 1997, and to date has one of the largest userbases in the world. [hidepost=1] Covering the basicsNew...

If you happen to be a Gmail user you probably noticed (as if you couldn’t) that the mail was down recently. Was it your fault? Of course not. It was Google’s fault. Regular readers know that I (Rich, not Dave) don’t exactly have a fondness for Gmail due to its beta-riffic way of working – correction – not working in this...

In this tutorial I will instruct you how to get a you@your_domain.com e-mail address for $15 a year. There are no catches, no strings attached, no nonsense. You can get reliable domain-style e-mail this cheap and you don’t even need a web host. The steps below will instruct you how to do this. [hidepost=1] Everyone has heard of Hotmail and Gmail. Both of...

In this small mini-series of videos I explain how to use the Windows Live Mail client that includes setting up with POP, IMAP, Gmail and of course Windows Live accounts like MSN, Hotmail and so on. This is video 5 of 5 – the last in the...

In this small mini-series of videos I explain how to use the Windows Live Mail client that includes setting up with POP, IMAP, Gmail and of course Windows Live accounts like MSN, Hotmail and so on. This is video 4 of 5. The other parts will be posted...

In this small mini-series of videos I explain how to use the Windows Live Mail client that includes setting up with POP, IMAP, Gmail and of course Windows Live accounts like MSN, Hotmail and so on. This is video 2 of 5. The other parts will be posted...

A while back I got some questions about how to *exactly* set up e-mail with Opera so I decided to put together a video showing how it’s done. Some people aren’t aware that the e-mail client within Opera isn’t too shabby (it does OperaMail, POP and IMAP). See video below for...