Whether you’re starting your own business, or just want to add a little more professionalism to your online persona. Whatever your reasons for registering a domain name, you’re making the right choice. Here are 5 reasons to register your own domain name and truly establish your presence in that crazy virtual world, we call the Internet. Credibility Nothing bugs me more when I’m d... »
Microsoft have finally added IMAP & OAuth integration to their free email offering, Outlook.com. In a move to attract more users to the platform, will this be enough to to break into the giant that is Gmail? IMAP has been an email standard for over 20 years now, and all major (and most minor) email services do provide IMAP support. So when Microsoft updated Hotmail to Outlook.com, and delibera... »
Back in December 2012 I wrote an article that explained how to use your own domain name with Gmail. Let’s be honest, it’s much better to have a custom email address like mail@johnsmith.com than wizards_sleeve839@hotmail.com, don’t you think? The problem with the article I wrote back in December is that there is a limitation with the system that only allows you to really receive e... »
Google have announced today that they have changed the way in which your account storage is shared across services like Gmail, Google Drive, and your Google+ photo’s. Before today you simply had 10GB in Gmail, and then another 5GB to use on your storage for Google Drive and your Google+ photo’s. But now the storage is shared across all three services; so let’s say for example tha... »
The Inky email app is a new and innovative way of checking your emails. Think of it like a mixture between your webmail account like Gmail, or Hotmail and a local email app like Thunderbird, Geary, or Outlook. The Inky email app isn’t just another app that lets you check your emails though. It approaches email in a completely unique way. It’s quite strange at first, but once you get us... »
None of us like to think about things like death or serious injury. But unfortunately it’s a necessary evil that we all must plan for. Now that many of us have a lot of data in the cloud, health insurance isn’t enough; we also need to make sure that our “digital will” is filled out as well. Google have just made this a whole lot easier with the release of the Inactive ... »
Outlook, Thunderbird, Geary or webmail? How do you access your emails? In the past I have used many different applications for accessing emails, some of which are named above, and some others include Outlook Web Access (OWA) and even command line. There are many email applications out there, but with the rise of web technologies like HTML 5 “internet apps” are becoming more and more co... »
Many people all over the UK use Sky for not only their TV, but also their internet, telephone and services like email. I myself have TV, telephone and fibre optic broadband with Sky. I also have a Sky email address although I don’t use it. Today I received an email into my inbox from Sky, informing me that from April 2013 Sky will be changing their email service provider from Gmail to Yahoo!... »