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Sending and Receiving Hotmail Through Gmail

I’ve written numerous times about my migration and love of Google Gmail. Like many, Gmail is my portal to all my email – it’s configured to send and receive email from just about all my accounts throughout my Internet history. I say just about because until the other day, Microsoft’s Hotmail could not be easily [...]

Secure Gmail Access 24/7

I was a late holdover to the phenomenon of a free web-based email service. When Hotmail and Yahoo Mail really started gaining traction webmail was pretty slow and cumbersome compared to the experience of a traditional desktop email client – no surprise really. Any email power-user would quickly lose their patience if they were forced [...]

Syncing Your Contacts from Gmail to Thunderbird

At the office I’m forced to use Outlook as my main communication and scheduling tool. Outlook gets a lot of bad raps and while at one time I’m sure most of it was justified, nowadays it really isn’t that bad of a product – at least Outlook 2007. However, that doesn’t mean I use it [...]

Enable Canned Responses for Quick Gmail Replies

Gmail’s Labs, the testing ground for “not quite ready for prime time” functionality for Gmail, engineers have rolled out their latest feature – canned responses. If you are a heavy email user you’ve likely encountered a subset of mail that warrants the same response. If you’ve said it once, you’ve said it a hundred times [...]

Gmail Hacks to Combat Spam

For most, spam has become the bane of email’s existence and because of the value to communication that email brings we’ve had no choice but to tolerate the inundation of spam into our Inboxes. To me, Gmail has become the defacto standard in how webmail and email in generally should be done. Google’s spam filter [...]


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