Hotmail

Hotmail is the default email service provided by Microsoft. This service can be free with these features:

Storage Space: 5GB. Still lesser than 7.2GB of Gmail. Yahoo! Mail accounts users now enjoy unlimited inbox space.

Attachment size: 10MB which half of Gmail's 20MB.

Forwarding: Emails can be forwarded to accounts in the Microsoft domain like others accounts at Hotmail.com or Live.com.

POP access: There has been a mention of providing POP access to all free accounts but till date nothing has come out of it. However, you can download Hotmail emails directly in Windows Live Mail email program or in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and 2007 through Microsoft Office Outlook Connector. In contrast, all Gmail accounts come with free POP3 and IMAP access.
Update: Free Hotmail POP is available in some countries. The feature is being rolled out gradually.

Email client access: You can set up Hotmail accounts on Windows Live Mail and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and 2007 email programs. The last two require Microsoft Office Outlook Connector application. Support for adding and configuring Hotmail on Outlook Express and Windows Mail (Vista email client) has probably been discontinued.

Virus scanning and security: Any online email service worth its salt scans all incoming email and attachments for viruses and worms. Windows Live Hotmail uses Trend Micro virus scanning.

Spam filter: All email accounts attract spam. And Hotmail's spam filer does a decent job. It puts all potential spam into the Junk folder.

Languages available: 35

Account expiration: Free accounts expire after 120 days of non-activity.

Advertisements: Ads are no longer displayed on Hotmail free email accounts - no flashy banners, no text ads ... nothing! Gmail displays relevant unobtrusive text ads. Ads in Hotmail are, however, attached to the bottom of all outgoing email messages.
Some users have reported seeing ads in on their Hotmail accounts. This does not seem to be applicable on all accounts though.

Folders: You can create folders in Hotmail to manage your email messages. This feature is missing in Gmail.

Themes: Change the colors and images in the account interface to suit your mood. Personalize and customize your Hotmail account.

Email composition: Emails can be composed using rich text that offers basic formatting of the message like changing the color, font size, font weight etc of text.

Spell checker: Spell checker is included so you have no excuse for sending emails full for spelling errors.

The service can also be paid for giving a few more services making the service a bit more enjoyable:

POP access: Download Hotmail emails in any email program that uses POP.

Storage space: 10GB - double that of the free account.

Email attachment size: 20MB - again double that of the free account.

Account expiration: Never, as long as its paid for.

Advertisements: No sort of advertisements at all.

(http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tips/hotmail/hotmail-features.php)



The gneeral layout of Hotmail.



Extra Pictures

The Gmail priority inbox in action, which has decided to show a
message from google telling me about the priority inbox.
This can only get better over time, improving it's selection methods 
from how i read my mail and what i read.  It also shows
my starred messages, so i don't have to switch between pages.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nt3gE9dGHQ download this video!)



My Maths layout.
This eduactional platform makes use of the interactive abilities
of the Internet, making the experience a bit more exciting.




This imatge shows what the graphics of free MMORPG games look
like. These can be improved when you pay for the subscription
to the memebrs' area of the game for a monthly fee.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wdrkp_qJFA download this video!)



9/9/2010 Email

What is Email?

Electronic-Mail.

Email is a system to send mail to other people via the internet. Due to the mail being send via the internet, is much faster than normal mail.

Advantages of Email?

Email is much fast, cheaper and has large limits to the amount of info, which can be sent. Files, which can be sent via email, can be images, videos, audio files, hyperlinks and many different resources that can be awkward to sent via normal mail. As the mail is immediately sent to the receiver, less time can be wasted for talking via mail. This makes the entire situation nicer and can be very good for talking to people in different time zones.

Disadvantages of Email

Junk email is a very bad problem with email. these often clutter up your inbox and makes the use of emails less enjoyable. However, this can be countered with spam blockers, extra organisation methods (E.g. Starred, Filters etc.) and blocking the email addresses altogether. Viruses are also very common in spam attatchments. These often damage your computer and can cost lots of money as well as a variety of ways to con you and steal your identity. Due to a large amount of junk mail, organizations can be overloaded with the email and can cause emaails to crash and costs money to have a large storage area for the large amount of mail. This also stops the organization from being well organised and can stop an organization from growing and developing from the problem.

Interesting Story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11248877

G-mail

G-mail view

• Gmail priority inbox finds important emails and sorts them for you. Less time wasted on junk mail. Often placed at the top of the list. Continuation of other reason i stated.
• Star feature puts folders in a different folder to read on another date. Organisation.
• Avoids infomation overload and orders mail. Organisation.
• Works out your patterns and orders the emails accordingly.
• Replying to messages helps to organise the more important messages.
• Can also manually change the prioritisation.
• Can only get better over time to help learn your habbits.
• Very good for organisation and helps make the use of emails more enjoyable and faster.
• Large amount of actions.
• Filters to help organise emails from certain people to automatically delete, star or sort.
• Goggle chat at the same time.
• Use microphones + headphones
• Buzz (google's version of a social network)