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Category: Mail
web quotes in Safari UK
It’s nice to see some more features filtering through to the localisedversions of Google Mail! Today I noticed web quotes at the top of themail browser. 🙂
Google Mail chat now in localised languages.
Finally the chat in Google Mail now has been added to the various othere languages supported by Google Mail. It’s just ashame that the web clips haven’t been enabled in English (UK) as well. They are great.
Had enough of Lycos
I’ve had enough of Lycos, so I’m moving away from them. Their mail is so slow with irritating pop-up ads. The web space is OK, but produces bad HTML and irritating pop-ups. I’m migrating this blog over to the google space too.
Additional Mailbox with yahoo
With Yahoo Mail, you can now have an additional mailbox that is attached to your current Mailbox. Great I can now have my ideal mailbox name: shaun.mcdonald!
Google Base
There seem to be a number of places going on about Google’s Base webapp that is meant to be available at http://base.google.com/. I only seem to get as far as the login, then another screen asking to confirm password. I don’t know what is going on. Mind you it is probably still in Beta, just… Continue reading Google Base
Yahoo Mail
Unfortunately the new Yahoo Mail service that makes webmail feel like your at you desktop is only available to those who have a @yahoo.com address. See Yahoo’s Beta Signup page. It’s a real shame I only have a @yahoo.co.uk address, I was looking forward to trying it out.
Spam
I wonder what is happening, I’m starting to get some. Strange, but annoying. You really need to watch out for phishing, i.e. e-mails claiming to be from somewhere, when they are not. I have found a few from eBay and PayPal claiming strange activity on an account apparently belongs to me.
Blogger
So you can use email to blogger!
Update to http Mail
There is a minor update to the Mail plugin so it should prevent the problem with hotmail requiring verification now.