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How to backup or download emails from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail (Outlook.com), Outlook, Thunderbird, and more [Guide]
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Email is a mainstay in the lives of many people. I’d venture to say many people who feel naked if they ever lost access to their email accounts and/or their emails. So a question often asked is: how do I backup or download my emails? This guide answers that question. [...]
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Goodbye Hotmail: All Hotmail users are being forcefully moved to Outlook.com, which is now available worldwide along with its multimillion-dollar ad campaign [Video]
Microsoft is officially taking out Outlook.com’s “preview” label, and is launching the service worldwide. This also means that Hotmail users will be slowly transitioned to the new service, albeit gradually. The good news? They’ll get to keep their email addresses — whether that’s Hotmail.com, Live.com or even MSN.com, none of [...]
Read More »How Microsoft solves problems [Comic]
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For all the good (and bad) Micrsoft has done in the world, we all seem to love bashing on the company. Whether Microsoft is at fault or not, people just like bashing them. Justified or not, the bashing is often very funny. You know, like the following, check it out:[...]
Read More »Gmail is finally the most popular e-mail service in the world, only just recently passed Hotmail
Back in July Google reported Gmail has 425 million monthly active Gmail accounts. If true, that would have finally made Gmail the most popular web mail service in the world, surpassing Hotmail and Yahoo. However, at the time, Google’s numbers were not in-line with third party companies that track such [...]
Read More »For years, Microsoft has been secretly limiting online passwords to 16 characters — despite leading users to believe otherwise
When you register for a new Outlook.com e-mail address, you are told your password can be a maximum of sixteen characters. While there are, of course, security implications with limiting passwords to sixteen characters, what is worse is how Microsoft has been lying to us for years.
You see while [...]
Read More »iOS apps of the day [August 19, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- Slice – Shopping Organized (Keep track of what you buy online)
- Movies by Flixster, with Rotten Tomatoes (Movie reviews, trailers, and showtimes)
- Dice With Buddies Free (Play YAHTZEE with your friends & family)
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Read More »How to switch from Outlook.com to Hotmail [How-To Guide]
Outlook.com is a new free web e-mail service by Microsoft intended to replace Hotmail. Using Outlook.com can be done by creating a new Outlook.com account or upgrading your existing Hotmail account to Outlook.com. If you have used Outlook.com and decided you want to go back to Hotmail, that can be [...]
Read More »How to upgrade from Hotmail to Outlook.com [How-To Guide]
Microsoft recently introduced Outlook.com, the impending successor to Hotmail. If you don’t have an existing Hotmail account, you can get started with Outlook.com by easily creating a new account. However, if you do have an existing Hotmail inbox, there is a way to easily upgrade/change/convert to Outlook.com from Hotmail. This [...]
Read More »Microsoft introduces Outlook.com, a new free email service to challenge Gmail
Hotmail is a pioneer of web e-mail and still commands millions of users around the world. However, Hotmail is so last year. Despite Microsoft’s attempts at modernizing Hotmail and bringing it up to speed with the competition (namely Gmail), Hotmail continues to have a bad rap in the digital [...]
Read More »Patent troll NTP wins war against Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and other major tech companies
Who has three letters in its name and just brought down the hammer on pretty much every company in the mobile device industry? No, it isn’t Apple. Or Google. Or Microsoft. Or Samsung. Or [insert name here]. That would be NTP my friends.
NTP Inc. is a patent “holding” company [...]
Read More »iOS apps of the day [May 23, 2012]
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Today’s Apps
- Board Game Tools (Utilities you can use for board games)
- mailPro (Hotmail, MSN & Live mail checker)
- Feed Me Oil Lite (Physics type game with collecting oil)
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