Chances are you haven’t used your Hotmail account for a while, but this could be an incentive: until the end of September, you can get 10% off any group deal from Cudo by accessing it via your Hotmail account. Not only will that give you 10% off, it also keeps your main email account from getting bombarded with deals. [Cudo via OzBargain]
If you use Hotmail (and it does stack up a lot better than it used to and are running IE9, here’s a handy feature: pin Hotmail to the Windows 7 taskbar and you’ll get an automatically updated message count. [via IEBlog]
While you could always go on an unsubscribe purge every once in a while, dealing with pesky newsletters still isn’t a fun process. Free service Unsubscribe.com adds a simple button to your mail client from which you can unsubscribe from any newsletter. More »
Keyboard shortcut mastery is among the first steps towards becoming a Gmail Master. But Hotmail users have their own powerful keyboard shortcuts — more than 50, in fact, and some familiar Gmail and Yahoo shortcuts can be used in Hotmail too. More »
Hotmail has updated its security features to help further safeguard your account against phishing attacks and hijacking attempts with mobile phone number verification and trusted computers. More »
Popular web-based email service Hotmail updates today with support for Exchange syncing, meaning Hotmail can now push email, calendar events and contacts between the web and your phone – if your phone supports Exchange (iOS, Windows, Nokia and Palm devices do). More »
The new Hotmail interface includes a built-in SMS alert feature that will ping your phone whenever a message matching one of your filters arrives in your inbox. Tech-Recipes walks you through setting up the alert and filter for very specific email. More »
