Use Gmail for your Hotmail

13/05/2009 at 1:12 am · Filed under Crikey! It's Internet. and tagged: email, gmail, google

I did a few posts about Hotmail lately, mainly because it’s been a very long time since I logged to my Hotmail account last and I it was good to see that Hotmail is trying to catch up with other free webmail providers like Google and Yahoo.

A few months ago Microsoft announced that they enabled POP3 and SMTP for Hotmail.

This is good news. For us folks, who are addicted to Gmail, we can now setup Gmail to retrieve emails from Hotmail! I just tested it myself, and it seems to work very well. All you need to do is to get Gmail to POP emails from your Hotmail account. And here is how.

Use Gmail to Manage Hotmail.

1. Login to Gmail
2. Go to Settings > Accounts Tab and click “Add a mail account you own”

You’ll see “Add a mail account you own” popup window

EMail address: Enter your Hotmail address and click “Next”

Username: your full Hotmail email
Password: your Hotmail password
POP Server: pop3.live.com
Port: 995
Tick “Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.

Select other options they way you like.

Click “Add Account” button.

That’s it! If you entered all settings correctly, you’ll see a green confirmation message.

You can now read your Hotmail Emails from your Gmail account! Nice.

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Use GMail for backup & storage space!

30/04/2009 at 2:52 pm · Filed under Crikey! It's Internet. and tagged: email, gmail, internet

Are you sick and tired fiddling with flash drives just to get a few files home and back? There is a much simpler solution – Gmail Drive. All you need is a free GMail account. And a simple, very light, program running on your computer. I have a friend who’s been using it for 3 years, non stop, and it hasn’t crashed ones or caused any problems.

So, there you are. Once installed, you’ll see “Gmail drive” inside your “My Computer”. When you copy a file there, it sends an email to your gmail account with this file as an attachment (you can see that email in your gmail inbox). Nice.

More info – here.

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