Whether Microsoft intended to our not, when they started Outlook.com to compete with Gmail, they opened up POP3 access for all users of free Hotmail, Live.com and MSN accounts too. If you have an email address that ends with @hotmail.com, @live.com, @msn.com or @outlook.com, you can set up those accounts in Windows Mail, Outlook Express and many other… Read More »
“The golden moments in the stream of live rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone” ~ George Eliot Today I did something I try very hard never to do – I glanced over my shoulder and looked at the road behind… Read More »
I’m not so sure what to think about Windows 8. It looks to me like a cell phone run amok. The big rectangular buttons on the desktop do nothing for me, but they may be really cool for the Starbuck’s generation. I’m out of the loop. One thing for sure, Windows 8 won’t look (by default) like any… Read More »
One of our favorite featured of Windows 7 is the way you can customize folder views almost any way you like. Some special folders like “Documents” have additional choices, but every folder on your Windows 7 computer is customizable in a number of different ways. Windows 7 puts special folders like Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos in a… Read More »
We all get spam. Sometimes the spam looks like it came from a friend or someone we know. Sometimes it looks like it came from a company we trust or a store at which we’ve shopped. Wouldn’t you like to know where an email really came from? You can find out. All the information about an email is… Read More »
Many people think Windows 8 is a completely new operating system because of how it looks. But under the hood, it’s very much like Windows 7. In fact, if you’ve been a Windows 7 user for a while, if you add a start button and you choose to boot to the desktop instead of the multi-tiled start screen,… Read More »