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Changing Hotmail’s font

Posted on March 17, 2012 by admin

Hotmail is a pretty hold messaging system, and even though it has changed a lot over the years, it may get boring after a long time using the same website style. Pretty much everything will get boring after a long of time using it, the only exception to this is something you really do love, but I highly doubt there is someone who loves that much this service to the point of never get boring of how the main website looks like.

The good thing about this is that, even though we cannot change of the website looks like, we can change the font of our messages, which will cause the overall image to drastically change, since most of the websites are just some texts with links into them. To do this, you must first log-in to your hotmail account. Once you’ve been redirected to the main page, place your cursor over your name (on top of the website) and some more options will pop-up, you’ll now click on the link that says “options” to cause another page to load. Now look carefully on the page, on the left side of it you’ll see some labels, click on the one named “Mail” and another page will load again. On this one, you’ll click on the link that says “Message font and signature”, under the “Writing email” title.

Now you’ll be able to select your message fonts, as well as the color, size and some others attributes, like the fact that it can be underlined by default.
Once you’ve finished changing all the settings you wanted to change, click on save and now you’ll just have to enjoy the new setting you decided for your mails. Also, if you can make your others contacts to change theirs fonts, you’ll end up having a very big amount of different mails, and every single one of them will be totally original at the end. Remember, creativity is always useful, and even more if you use it to cheer your life a bit more.

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Hotmail’s graymail

Posted on March 2, 2012 by admin

We all enjoy having a way to send messages and different kind of information all over the world, especially to those who we love and enjoy their presence and know that they enjoy our presence too. Sending and receiving mails from those people are more than a warming feeling and even more welcomed, due to the fact that we’re being remembered is truly spectacular and heart-warming, we can feel that we’re resting in every other’s hearts.

But one thing for sure is irritating is believe we have received a new message from someone, and ends up being a stupid notification from another site. We tend to delete those, and in order to stop doing the same thing to the “Hotmail’s bulletin report”, Hotmail itself made a new move, so we can know all the news regarding to this system without getting bored out of it, and this was made by deleting these kind of mails, called “graymails” (mostly because gray is the color we refer as when something is boring beyond imagination). In order to do this, they changed the way the introduced the bulletin board, and instead of sending one message every time they changed something, now there is one single mail in a special section, and this one will just “refresh” every time another new pop-up. But this is not the only measure they’ve taken to avoid the graymail, they also gave some “automatic” functions to users so they can automatically delete some messages without even having to open them.
Looks like Hotmail’s team will to stop to pleasure their users with new options and functions to help us eliminate those things in this service that really annoy us. And they won’t just stop there, they’re making many polls to know which others things they should change, so try to be on touch and your problems regarding this service may disappear.

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Hotmail’s calendar

Posted on February 4, 2012 by admin

Hotmail has many useful tools for their users to take advantage of, many options to configure and that way be able to manage your incoming and sent mails in an easier way. But there are some tools that now everyone may know of, such as Hotmail’s Calendar, a great tool to manage events, dates, meetings and other kind of important issues. Is a pity that such a great tool remains unknown, that’s why we would like to explain the readers of to use this, in case you didn’t know it existed.

If you’re most likely to forget important dates, this tool will come handy, letting you manage your events and this way, Hotmail will send you a mail to make you remember of those specifics dates. But this just doesn’t let you do this, you can also see your contacts’ birthday (if you’re most likely not to remember your friends’ birthdays), holidays (this mostly depends on your country, not all the countries have the same holiday in the same day), and you can even see the weather. If you want to use this great tool, you must first log-in to your Hotmail account and then click on the “Windows Live” logo in the top left corner of the page. This will make pop-up a menu, which you’ll now click on “All services”. A new page will load, letting you see the many services you can use, and the first one is the Calendar service, which clicking on it will cause a new page to load. If you’re new to this tool, it’ll ask you to choose your time zone, and once you’ve selected it, you’re now ready to start managing your dates and appointments.

Now you’re ready to enjoy this great tool, which may save your friendships or even your marriage, if you’re married and you’re likely to forget important dates or you’re too busy to remember. One last thing we would like you to remember is that you can customize the visual aspect of the boxes, letting you use colors for different kind of dates, like blue for birthdays and green for work meetings, etc.

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Attaching Office documents to a mail

Posted on January 20, 2012 by admin

One of the best uses that we can give to an electronic messaging system, also known as e-mail, is to attach files to a mail so we can share data to our contacts, also known as the receivers of the mail. Most of nowadays’ messaging system has an option to attach files, but most of them work in a different fashion than every other, and in this article we’re intended to explain you how to use Hotmail’s attachments’ system.

Normally we can attach almost every kind of file to our mails, even though we have a space limit per message and per attachment too (not surpassing the 10 MB per mail). This can be pretty inconvenient when we want to send big files, like a movie or HD pictures of or whatever we’ve taken pictures of. But since Hotmail is a Windows’ product, the developer has decided to give a little boost to those who owns or have a Windows’ OS installed in their PC by letting Hotmail’s users upload Office’s files in an easier way. Now, every Office file we upload to a mail, such as a Word file, an Excel file, or a PowerPoint file, can be easily viewed by the receiver, letting that people see the content of the mail online instead of having to download the attached file and run it into the computer itself, which can make it easier to see important documents and to prevent your computer from getting viruses due to download a file from a mail.

Now, the question may be how to attach this kind of file, which is not hard at all. Just write a mail as regular, and when the time of attaching a file comes, click in “Office doc” instead of clicking in “Attachments” as you usually do. This will let you upload an Office document which can be easily previewed next. When you’re done attaching all the files you may need, just click on “send” and the mail will be sent as usual.

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Picture album in Hotmail

Posted on January 5, 2012 by admin

Hotmail has many options for you to use and to be as creative as possible, all of them oriented to share many kind of information to your contacts as easy as possible. One of the best service it has nowadays to offer is the Skydrive storage service, letting you save up until 25 GB of information, including pictures and videos of any kind. This will help you to share pictures with everyone you may want to.
On Skydrive, you’ll be able to even manage your information, and you’ll be able to create album pictures for your contacts to see, you can even make it password-protected so some users will be able to see it, those who you’ve sent the password to. To create an album, you must log-in to your Hotmail account. Once you’re on the main page, look for the “Skydrive” option on top of the page, next to the “Messenger” one, and click on it. A new page will load, showing what you have on your disc currently, but to create an album we must head to the “Photos” option, right on the left side of the page, under the big text that says “Skydrive”. This will lead us to another page, and on this one you can click on “Create album” to create as many albums as you want, and rename them as you please. Now that your album is created, you can click on it to access that album and drag and drop any kind of picture you want them to be in that album.
As you can remember, you can upload as many pictures as you want, as long as you don’t surpass the 25 GB limit that Skydrive has to offer. Now you can share it with whoever you want, pictures from vacations, your new house, or whatever you want to upload on the new-made albums.

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Automatic replies in hotmail

Posted on December 21, 2011 by admin

Hotmail is a great messaging system that has the solution to almost every problem, and it has the perfect solution when you’re on vacations and you don’t feel like replying any kind of email. But what may happen if those emails are really important, like some kind of business problem? Maybe some colleague didn’t know you’re on vacations and sent you a mail anyway and is patiently waiting for your reply but instead it never came. That would get you in serious troubles, even on vacations, so Hotmail has the perfect solution: the automatic reply.
This feature will help you to let everyone who send you a message know that you’re not available because you’re doing something else and that you may even not log-in to your Hotmail account for a while. Tho activate this tool you must log-in to you hotmail account and head to the “more options” label, under the “Options” link. A new page will load, and you’ll look for the title called “Managing your account”, which will have many options below it. But between those options, you’ll click on the one that says “Sending automated vacations replies”, making a new page load while doing so. Now you must select the “Send vacation replies to people who email me” instead of the default one, that says “Don’t send any vacation reply”. Now you must write your message (try being as polite as possible to avoid problem with business partners) and save the changes. Also, not the below is an option that says “Only reply to your contacts”, and you may better have it on to avoid spamming and junk mail.
When you’re done, click on “Save” and every change you made there will be apply. Remember to turn that options off when you’re done with your vacation, otherwise it’ll keep sending those mails even when you’re right there to reply them.

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Reverse engineering in Hotmail’s messages

Posted on November 26, 2011 by admin

Advances in technology and informatics are sure a great help for everyday life, giving us much things to use in our advantage so we don’t have to worry about meaningless things like trying to contact someone face-to-face, we can talk to that person by phone or even chat with him/her. But these advances don’t just bring us good things to keep our life in a good mood, in can also give us one of the most troublesome things: spam messages.

Even if there are many safe type of messaging services, like Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo, we’ll always receive some kind of spam messages, but we can always some kind of spam message and we must be ready to block them. These three messaging services has something in common: you can block a sender, but to do so you must know who send you the message in first place. If you run into the problem of not knowing who send it (because you receive the same message that were sent with different accounts) you may have to give use of a simple way of doing hard things: reverse engineering. Basically, with this you’ll just try to figure out the source of where the mail came from instead of just blocking it (people use it in a daily-basis to know how machines are made, they just dissemble them and assemble them again). Just try typing out the most used phrase in a mail in Google and you’ll end up with the source of the messenger, which you may block later.

Maybe this won’t always work, but it’ll give you a lot of practise for other problems of the same type, most of the messages has a source, maybe advertisement or a mail-chain. The only problem about this is that it’ll work for a short time, since everyday new ways of protecting your identity, even if it’s for just annoying spam messages, are developed in order to keep annoying people with spam message and advertisements.

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Deleting a contact from Hotmail

Posted on November 21, 2011 by admin

We humans hold relations between each others, but when we decide that one relation with a certain person ahs ended and we don’t want to talk or see that person ever again we just have to delete all kind of contact we want from them, and one of the things that are deleted nowadays when we want to stop talking with a certain someone is his/her hotmail contact from our own account, something that would take some time in the past.

We all know that loading a web browser is a lot faster than just loading a program, like loading Mozilla Firefox ton access a web page can be faster than loading MSN and then wait for it to properly connect to our Hotmail account (which may fail sometimes). That’s why we want to explain you how to delete a contact directly from Hotmail instead of MSN, since it can be easier and faster. First you need to log-in to your Hotmail account, so remembering your account and your password are crucial at this point. Once you’ve successfully logged-in, go to your Inbox. Now, on the top of the page, you’ll be able to see a label that says “Messenger”, place your cursor over it and some new options will appear. Now you’ll click on the one that says “Contacts”, loading a new page when you do so. Now you just need to mark those contacts you want to delete and then click on the option that appears on the top as “delete”.
With this, those annoying contacts you don’t want anymore will be gone for good, and even in a simpler way than waiting for a software to load and connect properly. You can even feel better for doing it in this way, since it shows that “that” person didn’t even care that much to even wait for the MSN to load and delete it that way.

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Skydrive offers unlimited space?

Posted on November 16, 2011 by admin

At first, it may sound like Hotmail has gone insane, giving up so much space for free, but it’s not what you may think, and at the same time it is. Space to save files is something that is well-paid, and it would be hard to imagine that such a big company like Microsoft would give it up as it were candies, knowing that a 320 GB hard disk drive would be around 80 dollars, you can also turn that free service known as Skydrive into a paid service to secure people’s data.
Well, it turns out that Hotmail has announced that the 25 GB limit it’s not there anymore, but just in certain cases, like pictures and documents (such as Word, Excel or any other text file), you’ll have unlimited space to store those type of files, perfect for those ones who likes to send pictures of holidays, or for the business-type of person who must send tons of Words and Excel files to their bosses or business-partners. But if you would like to upload things like movies, softwares, music or other kind of files that aren’t plain-text files, you’ll still have that 25 GB limit. This may sound bad comparing to the first part of the new, but let’s face the actual service: having 25 GB of free online space it’s more than awesome, considering that mostly of the sites that offers this kind of space would be just 5 or 10 GB.

As you can see, Hotmail is moving towards to future thinking in their users first, and the fact that are not asking to be paid for the 25 GB service when mostly of the sites that offers the same quantity ask for a pretty considerable fee per month, we are the one winning here. 25 GB is more than we could wish for music and videos, even if we upload a whole movie in 1080p format, that won’t even be more than 10 GB of our space, and we can always delete other files to upload new ones.

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Getting to know Zune

Posted on November 7, 2011 by admin

If you’re someone who surf in the Internet in a daily-basis, then you may have heard about Zune, but if you don’t we would be more than glad to explain it to you: Zune is an online service to play different kinds of media without having to download them to your computer, but not just that, it’s also compatible with tablets, Xbox 360 and mobiles with Windows Phone operative system too.
This service is not free, you must pay a monthly fine of 9.99 dollars to be able to enjoy this great service, which includes over 14 thousands songs, movies, TV shows and other kind of podcast. To enjoy this service you must own a Hotmail account, and obviously, if you already have a GamerTag created from your Xbox 360 you can also use this a the username. One of the most amazing features this service may have is that you can also use it alongside the famous “Media Center” installed with Windows 7, letting you access some exclusive contents and make it easier to watch, the only thing you may need is an Internet connection. You can also transfer your audio files that can be heard in this service up to 3 times, letting you share it with another 2 users if you want. You can also use it alongside iTunes, letting you heard those unprotected songs from that center in the Media Center instead of having to launch another program to listen them.

Simply a good resource of downloading and managing audio files in your computer in a legal way, since you can use the “Reverse Sync” function to create a back-up of your downloaded files in your computer. If you’re looking for a good and simple service to manage and download songs and movies, this is the one you’re looking for.

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