hotmail
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How To Properly Pause Your Email Inbox at Work
Whether you’re finishing up work for the holidays or heading off on a well-earned vacation (or both), there’s often the question of what to do with your emails while you’re away from your desk — and how best to make sure you’re not met with a depressing avalanche of messages that need replying to upon…
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Outlook.com Is Microsoft’s Hotmail Reimagined (And You’ll Actually Want To Use It)
Microsoft has reimagined and rebranded its existing Hotmail/Windows Live webmail service as Outlook.com, and the result — a Metro-inspired, stripped-back client that’s much more like the Outlook desktop client — is impressive. We’ve long thought Hotmail was a solid email service, and certainly the best alternative to Gmail, but Microsoft steps its game up to…
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Hotmail Shows Message Counts When Pinned In IE9
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]
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Use Hotmail From Your Gmail Account
Microsoft recently announced POP3 support for all Hotmail users, finally freeing your email to be used anywhere—even from the vastly superior Gmail. Over at the How-To Geek site (my other home), the Mysticgeek blog walks through the process of setting up Hotmail access using Gmail’s POP3 checking capability—including sending email using your Hotmail email address…