By Jin Nan Goto
leaving behind your old email address can be a very distressing and painful experience. Many have been using the same email account given to them by their ISP for years and the address is known to all their friends and family. The fear of missing messages sent to that address is a strong incentive to put up with the lousy service provided by their ISP. Now, there are many better solutions for email but making the change can still be daunting.
Google’s GMail is a particularly good replacement for the old ISP email . It’s free, has a lot of features including some pretty good anti-spam filtering. GMail also gives an constantly increasing amount of storage. Right now, it’s past 7GB which is easily twice the storage that your ISP might offer.
Please note, The following tip will only work for email accounts using POP3. It will not work for a lot of webmail accounts.
Set up Gmail to check mail on your old ISP account:
- login to gmail and click “Settings” on the top right corner of the page.
- Select the “Accounts and Import”” tab
- Click the “Add POP3 email account” button from the Check mail using POP3 section.
Next type in the email address that you would like GMail to check.
Lastly all you need to do is type in the setting for the email account using the username/password and ports given by your ISP or email provider.
By Jin Nan Goto
Microsoft’s new anti-malware software which is to intended to replace the discontinued Windows OneCare will be released tomorrow, Sept. 29th. Microsoft Security Essentials, codenamed Morro, was offered earlier this year as a beta to 75,000 users and now it will be made available as a free download to the public. From my use during the beta I found MSE to be a very capable AV software. It offers a much lighter footprint than the massive AV suites and along with Windows Defender, bundled with Windows Vista and Windows 7 and a free download for XP users, it is a great antivirus/antispyware solution.
Additional Info:
Story from pcadvisor.co.uk
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3202792
Story From zdnet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4091
Fridays are customarily slow news days and the weekends aren’t all that promising for interesting reads as well. Here are some of my favorite links over the past week which you may have missed.
The Onion Beats Investigative Journalism On Google News
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/03/the-onion-beats-investigative-journalism-on-google-news/
Avoiding Apple’s Ivory Tower
You don’t have to shell out big bucks for a back-to-school computer.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/26/apple-dell-fujitsu-technology-college-money-builder-09-laptops.html?feed=rss_technology
Photos: How the Wright brothers landed an Army deal
http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10001413-1.html?tag=mncol
NFL bans tweeting before, during, after games
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10322904-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
How to Use Windows XP’s Computer Management Tool
http://pcsplace.com/windows-xp/how-to-use-windows-xps-computer-management-tool/
America, a nation obsessed with tech
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10332910-235.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
By Jin Nan Goto
I spent some time today with my newly upgraded Mac Mini. I installed Snow Leopard and as I was setting up file sharing with my Windows PCs, I saw something that I found quite amusing. Showing that people at Apple have a wicked sense of humor, the Icon representing a “PC Server” (in this case it was my Laptop running the Windows 7 RC) showed a distinctive and quite familiar sight for a a PC user. You can see for yourself below.
Now apparently this has been around for quite some time, but since I’m a relatively new Mac user (having left Apple for Windows 95 and being an exclusive PC user until a little less than a year ago. And using Windows 95 I certainly encountered my fair share of blue screens.) this was the first time I had noticed it and I’m surprised how many times I pulled up this screen and never noticed it. It made me smile and shake my head a little.
