There are many of us (myself included) who remember the days when dial-up was the only way to get online, and there were two types of ISPs, the Corporate and the Mom n’ Pop. A few examples from when I was living in Connecticut: The locals were NECAnet and Cyberzone. The corporates were SNET and TIAC. All of them cost about the same price per month. (As a...

This is written for the benefit of those who use the Hotmail webmail service. If your e-mail address ends in @msn.com, @live.com or @hotmail.com or you use Windows Live Domains, this applies to you. POP-based Hotmail is not available in the free version at the time of this writing and I’ll say that right up front. You need to flip over $19.95 a year to get...

This tutorial will instruct you how to do one of the following (depending on which e-mail you like best):POP to Hotmail (including Sent Mail and folders) POP to Gmail (including Sent Mail and folders)It’s easy enough to move everything in the inbox to a Hotmail or Gmail account. But what’s more important is your sent mail and mail you have stored...

One widely unknown feature of Outlook Express and the Windows Live Mail client is how easy it is to backup your mail locally (to which you can then burn to CD/DVD, put on a USB stick, etc.) Even if you’re not using Hotmail, you can easily back up any POP or IMAP account by a simple drag’n'drop to a local folder. You could even backup Gmail easily...

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...