Tag: WEBMAIL

Microsoft has finally completed the rollout of Hotmail's biggest update ever, making it available to all 350 million of its users. The new look and features have turned a lot of heads, drawing praise from bloggers and longtime Gmail users alike. Of course, as with any upgrade there have been snags -- with some customers complaining of their browser freezing when trying to load Hotmail, and ...

While I'm probably not going to stop using my GMail account any time soon, the new Hotmail refresh has certainly put a shine on the venerable old webmail app and dragged it into 2010. And there are a couple new features that I do find very compelling -- and several others that less-techy users will enjoy. One of the biggest changes is with file attachments. Hotmail can now handle up to 200 ...

If you hate the Facebook inbox as much as I do, this will come as welcome news; according to TechCrunch, Facebook will soon be launching a full webmail client. Dubbed Project Titan it will be a full blown mail client similar to Gmail with full POP and IMAP support. According to Michael Arrington your address will be your current Vanity URL @facebook.com. With 350 million active Facebook ...

I'm so rarely without an internet connection these days that I barely give a second thought to offline access to my GMail, but it's a welcome "in case of emergency" feature. It's been available in GMail Labs for a long time, but today Google has pushed Offline Mail to full-fledged GMail option status. As with other GMail feature rollouts, you might not see the change right away (not a big ...

The GMail crew has been doing a great job of adding useful features of late -- some of them right into GMail, others in Labs. If you haven't clicked on the little green beaker in the top toolbar yet, there are plenty of excellent features worth turning on. Here are 10 that I find particularly useful. Offline Arguably the most powerful feature available in labs right now. Offline access requires ...

Affixa is a utility that can integrate your Gmail or Yahoo! Mail account with Windows.. First of all, once you install Affixa, you can set your webmail account as your default email service. That means when you use the "send" buttons in programs like Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, or Windows Explorer, Affixa can automatically open a browser window, create a blank message in Gmail or Yahoo! Mail ...

When we first looked at Zenbe two months ago, the service was still in private beta. Now anyone can sign up for Zenbe. The company has also added several new features that help transform the service from a simple webmail client to a personalized start page. For example, you can now sign into Google Talk and Twitter in the Quick View area on the right side of the page. This lets you chat with ...

Free webmail is nothing new. But the field is pretty much dominated by big names like Google, AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Zenbe is a startup that hopes there's room for one more. And the company's webmail client makes a pretty strong case that there should be. Zenbe is a free email service that gives users 4GB of storage for emails and attachments. But that's just the start. The service features ...

Yahoo! Mail has been one of the most popular free web-based email services ever since its humble beginnings. Not too long ago, Yahoo! started to feel the pressure from the brazen upstart Gmail, which offers a gradually increasing mailbox limit. Not to be outdone, Yahoo! introduced an unlimited mailbox size, promising that users would "never need to delete a message again." As many of us expected, ...

Yahoo! seems to be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Yahoo! Mail by slowly removing the beta tag from the updated version of its webmail service. Last week a Download Squad reader wrote in to let us know that when he logged into Yahoo! there was no "beta" label under the logo. This morning we went and logged in ourselves and lo and behold, the beta is no more. Yahoo! is also highlighting some ...

Yahoo! Mail celebrates its 10th birthday today. Or it would if it were, you know, a person and not a web-based software application. Anyway, 10 years ago today Yahoo! launched its webmail client. At the top you could get a whopping 3MB of storage. Now Google offers 3GB of free storage, while Yahoo! users get "unlimited" space for their messages. A lot of things have changed in ten years. Spam ...

Webmail is a hot industry these days, with Gmail, Yahoo! and nearly every provider in between vying for users by adding as many features as they can dream up. Fortunately, a small provider named Litepost is taking a different approach, offering a streamlined webmail interface with just a dash of web 2.0 to help bring your email into the 21st century web. We found Litepost back in June when they ...

Despite having literally dozens of blogs related to Google products, the internet giant has never had a Gmail blog. Until today that is, however, as Google has now posted introduced an Official GMail Blog! Given that it's only just launched, there's not anything other than an introductory post, however the Gmail team describe it as a "place where we want to highlight interesting and useful posts ...

With so many great webmail offerings out there, only two are considered the frontrunners. Yahoo, the oldest player, has just revamped with unlimited storage and some drag and drop interface changes, while Google has the threaded simplicity thing going on adding built in Chat, Doc, Calendar, and Spreadsheet applications with a less cluttered appearance. In this battle, who is the real leader? ...

Microsoft has announced that they will be keeping the Hotmail name when they officially launch their Live email service worldwide, with some users seeing reference to the Windows Live Hotmail name in their beta versions. Microsoft also announced their two major goals when they chose to take on the building of the new web mail service: Build a faster and safer mail service and create a powerful ...