Tablet Enhancements 3 has recently been turned from a commercial application to a free for all software program that adds much needed tablet PC support to Microsoft Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook […]
I don't understand why someone still uses Outlook Express unless company's policies are forcing the program on all users in the company network or on company hardware. Many users probably use it […]
If you use both the email client Mozilla Thunderbird and Google Mail (Gmail) you may need a way to keep both address books in sync so that they can be accessed from […]
Several posts have made the round in the last couple of weeks that explained how a specific webmail service could be selected as the default client on a PC running the Windows […]
Microsoft Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Outlook 2007 users can use the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector program to access and manage their Windows Live Hotmail or Office Live Mail accounts directly in Microsoft […]
You might have already read elsewhere that it is possible to reveal the real name of any Gmail user by sharing a calendar in Google Calendar with him. Let me explain how […]
Gianluigi sent me an interesting email just a few minutes ago that described a small script that he wrote that allows you to create Outlook tasks from the command line and Launchy. […]
As I read a large selection of RSS feeds each day I see a whole lot of great little tech tips coming through, and often I want to share them, but that […]
Gmail Quick Links is a new feature rolled out in Google Labs for Gmail which enables you to create some links for frequents searches, but it can be used for much more. […]
The award for the longest title ever could go to this one. But it's good news actually. Both Email services are "supporting email authentication standards including DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) […]
Microsoft Outlook 2007 Service Pack 1 freezes and hangs occasionally for some users depending on their activities. A search on Google revealed more than 250000 pages for the search term Outlook Freezes. […]
Google Mail introduced a new feature recently that can be helpful in finding out if someone else has or had access to your Gmail account. The function is a bit hidden in […]
I already covered how one can make Gmail the default Firefox 3 mail client which has the effect that mailto links are opened on the Gmail website from that moment on. This […]
The popular ‘Better Gmail 2’ Firefox extension adds a whole lot of great extra functionality to Gmail through various Greasemonkey scripts. What I loved the most was the inclusion of the fantastic […]
If you like to access your Gmail account on the official website and not in a desktop email client, then you may have noticed that it is not really that easy to […]
“This is a guest post by Ben Carigtan, a technology enthusiast and staff writer at Online-Tech-Tips.†Is your outlook mailbox a mess? Do you miss reading important emails because of the tons […]
Gabtastic provides desktop access to the chat applications Facebook Chat and Google Talk. Those two are normally only accessible on the Facebook and Google Mail websites which require a permanently opened browser […]
URL Link is a very sophisticated add-on for the email client Mozilla Thunderbird that provides advanced link manipulation techniques. The most obvious - and probably common as well - option is to […]
Google has added a very interesting feature to Gmail called Labs which is accessible in the account options. Labs is basically a testing ground for Gmail add-ons created by members of the […]
Microsoft is making available a free add-on for Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Outlook 2003 running on Windows XP or Windows Vista called Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot that may be interesting for […]
Microsoft Outlook .pst (Personal Folder) files can be password protected with a -- very weak -- encryption algorithm. While it will keep computer users with no computing experience away from decoding the […]
Outlook Express stores emails in so called dbx files which contain the present but also the deleted messages unless mail folders are compressed regularly. If a database file gets corrupted it does […]
Most computer users that I know have several email accounts hosted by different email providers. I'm using about ten email accounts actively in Thunderbird and web interfaces, and always thought that there […]
A new version of Gmail was introduced a while ago by Google which added several new features, like color labels, to Gmail. So called Gmail 2 is accessible through a link in […]
Thunderplunger is an add-on for the email client Thunderbird that adds a few semi-automatic features to the program that help you keep Thunderbird clean and tidy. The six features that are added […]
If you happen to use an e-mail provider that's offering an IMAP-server (or you are boosting your own (mail-)server), this might be for you, because chances are if you are using IMAP, […]
My mailbox is growing in size everyday and it's already so big that I cannot back it up on CD anymore. That's a common complaint that I hear and read rather often […]
Moving mails and news from Outlook Express to another application can be quite a challenging task. Many mail clients, including Thunderbird, support the import of Outlook Express mails from the default user, […]
Retrieving all mail headers from emails that are currently stored on the mail server can be useful for several reasons. The first is that it is possible to delete mails without having […]
Extracting emails from files is probably something that the majority of computer users never need to do. It refers to parsing files to identify email addresses and make those addresses available after […]
Some options in Outlook Express can only be changed by editing the Windows Registry. A comfortable way of editing those settings is the application Tweaker for Outlook Express which provides easier access […]
Backing up your email accounts regularly is a pretty important task and a safety measure in case something goes wrong and you cannot access the account anymore. Most users collect emails over […]
Mailbox Alert (via Genbeta) is a add-on for the popular mail client Thunderbird that adds the option to the program to define alerts for mail folders in Thunderbird. Alerts can be messages, […]
I spend the morning at a house of a friend who bought a new computer and wanted some of his data transferred from the old computer that he was using to the […]
Many PC users are still working with Microsoft Outlook as their main email application. It's rather convenient because Outlook Express ships with the Windows operating system and the retail Outlook is part […]
Microsoft Outlook categorizes mail attachments into three risk types which are high, medium and low. Outlook uses the default Microsoft configuration to determine if a file poses a high, medium or low […]
Google likes basic designs that just work. Take a look at their search engine or Gmail to know what I mean. Now you all know that I do not have a problem […]
Thunderbird is my mail software of choice even though I do have various webmail accounts. I simply prefer my mail to be on my computer and not on a server somewhere on the Internet. I run a fairly customized version of Thunderbird and I would like to share five advanced Thunderbird tips with you that I implemented in my version.
Faceted Browsing can be very helpful if you do not precisely know what you are looking for. It gives you choices which narrow down the search results. Seek is a Thunderbird extension that brings that concept to the email client. It displays mails by a variety of variables like recency, tags and from and offers a sophisticated search that narrows done the search results.
What would you do if you had purchased a software that would archive your Gmail mails and found out that this software send your username and password to the Gmail account of the author of the software ? That's apparently what has happened to users who purchased the program G-Archiver by someone named John Terry.
