Google recently revealed the plan to merge the privacy policies and terms of service for most of the company’s products. This move gives all Google services direct access to all user data. Google search for instance can take into account what kind of emails a user gets in Gmail to personalize the search results based [...]

Categories: Email, Google, Microsoft

When I signed up for my Hotmail email account I used a custom email address. As a consequence, I never received a “real” Hotmail email address. While I was able to create Hotmail aliases, I could not really use all the features associated with an account on the site as I used the third party [...]

Categories: Email

Did you know that newsletters make up about 50% of the email the average user receives? Microsoft discovered this after analyzing what they called graymail. Graymail in short is all mail that is not spam or personal email. When they looked at graymail they discovered that newsletters and social updates were the two biggest groups [...]

Categories: Email

If you are using Microsoft’s Hotmail email service you have probably already noticed new options that are displayed in the web interface. Here is the new feature overview for those who have not, and those who have spotted some but not all of the new features. New email accounts can be created on the official [...]

Categories: Email, Microsoft

Whenever possible I prefer not to enter login information on third party computer systems and networks. Why? Because I do not have full control over the software running in the background. Other means of logging in are preferred, especially passwords that are only valid once and expire afterwards. That’s what Hotmail has added to their [...]

Categories: Email, Microsoft

From time to time people want to change their email provider.  It could be that you have been with Hotmail for years and want to move to Gmail, or that you’re worried about the future of Yahoo! and want to safeguard your email account with another provider.  It could even be that you’ve finally had [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Last month Microsoft changed the default log-in experience on their Live services, which include Hotmail.  The change meant doing away with the tile you could click (that was also more finger-friendly) and the “Remember me” box and replacing them with a more ‘traditional’ text entry box for your username. In order to make the system [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Millions of emails fly through cyberspace daily, and as is the case for many users, it can be useful to identify the location that the e-mail originated from. Persistent spam and malware attachments abound. Sometimes it is best to say, “I have had enough!” Particularly for e-mails that include malware, this is important. By reporting [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic

Ghacks readers know that online security is of uttermost importance. That includes picking passwords that are not common, easy to guess or dictionary words. The majority of Internet users on the other hand select convenience over security when it comes to their online password, or shall I say password. Many users pick a common password [...]

Categories: Email, Security