Modern webmail providers like Hotmail and Gmail essentially tell you "store it and forget it", meaning to push all your email in there, don’t worry about it and it will be A-OK. Well.. whether it’s really A-OK is up for debate. Let’s say your in the situation where you’re using a mail client and want to transfer several thousand...

Last weekend I upgraded from Windows 7 Release Candidate to Windows 7 Home Premium. I have used many flavors of Windows over the years, and this is certainly the best to date. I personally find it quite enjoyable to be running a brand new fresh-and-modern operating system. Everything looks better, runs better and so on. And there are many features that make 7...

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...