Hey all, apparentely I’m taking requests now – but at least I know one person is actually reading this damn thing.

My friend Fraser, discontent with the projectile lobbying of digital livestock, tasked me on Facebook with this:

…any ideas for email applications that aren’t web based (need to be signed into msn messenger for email notifications, and i cant integrate it with my uni account), or mozilla thunderbird (theres like a 5 min delay between the email reaching my actual inbox and it appearing in thunderbird, which doesn’t seem m…uch, but it annoys me)? and apparently the newer windows mail / outlook dont let you use your hotmail account? fussssyyyyy.

This question threw a metaphorical spanner into my metaphorical brainstuffs as my usual answer to this is simply “Mozilla Thunderbird, fool!”. Alas, though I chastise Fraser for being put off by a five-minute delay when only the obsessed, and bored students, check their e-mail with any frequency upwards of five minutes, but seeing as Fraser is both – I must press on.

Personally, I have taken to forgoing web-based e-mail altogether and get anything related to Uni, Blogging or my other wheelings-and-dealings to my Palm Pre and have a browser-based e-mail for all the other crap (i.e. horoscopes, facebook/youtube/twitter notifications, etc.). Thus, my initial recommendation is that, if you have one, sync your important stuff with your phone and never check with your browser, thus you never notice any delay. Again, this solution may only work for some so press we on again…

As much as I hate to push Microsoft software over open-source Mozilla software, no other company really does e-mail clients better than Outlook, and I feel it would be unfair of me to write it off with Vista, Silverlight and that weird music-generation software they’ve been dabbling in without a proper look. Outlook is the oldest and most refined software, ideal for syncing with POP and IMAP e-mail services. Outlook has been regenerated recentely into “Windows Live Mail”, no doubt to keep up branding with Live Messenger (formerly MSN) and the rest of the Live suite that get’s pushed on you when you try to install Messenger.

I had no trouble syncing my live.co.uk e-mail account with Live Mail but, as Fraser rightly puts, Hotmail seems to be Microsoft’s unwanted, and poorly named, child that they are leaving out in the cold like so much mouldy cheese (I really should’ve put it in the fridge). In public, Microsoft won’t hold Hotmail’s hand as they cross the road, but on paper they’ll accept that they slept with that golddigging slut and will let Hotmail in with a blanket over it’s head. Tutorials online show you how to complete this setup and, were I in a position to test it, I would do so. However, sworn testimony from people on the internet, so you know it’s trustworthy, says that this simple method works; good luck Fraser, let me know how it goes….

http://www.freeemailtutorials.com/windowsLiveMail/setupEmailAccounts/setupHotmailAccount.htm

Apologies for the long break in posts, swamped with Uni work. However, a big sycophantic post about how great it is to live in the 21st century with technology is right around the corner, when I start planning it.

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