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Who could actually resist Yahoo! mail’s unlimited storage? You could have numerous number of mails with attachments and not worry about the emails sent to you ever bouncing back to the sender. It’s no wonder why some people would use yahoo mail to consolidate their email addresses.

It’s not a very well-known feature but like in gmail, you could send emails using your other email addresses (as long as you can verify it, of course) and also fetch your pop3 mails. It’s very simple, you just have to do the following.

In your yahoo account, whether it’s classic or the new skin, go to your mail options. You will be brought to different options to manage your mails. Now you have to select “Accounts”, and from there, click on add or edit an account.

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It is true that GMail is one of the best web-hosted email systems around and have a huge disk space to boot! However, this great deal is nothing if it will not be used to its full potential. Being able to archive your mails for future reference and so as to keep your inbox clean is good enough, and so are the labels which makes sifting through hundreds of emails a little easier is good enough, so what else is missing? Forwarding your mails from one account to your Gmail account.

Having one email account to catch all of the non-spam messages from your various email addresses by forwarding them to your main account is not a revolutionary idea. However, being able for Gmail to fetch your messages from your from another server is another is not a very known feature of Gmail. Here, we’ll see how easy it is to set up your GMail account and therefore further using Gmail to its full extent.

Fetching your mails from your other service provider to your Gmail account is easy, just follow these steps: (click on the images to view the full-sized image)

1. Go to Settings > Accounts, there you will see various options for your account such as adding another email address, upgrading your storage (the current is at 5G, who needs more, really?) and what we’re after: Get mail from other accounts. Just click on the “Add another mail account link.”

   

2. A popup window will appear that will be asking you for your email address, (e.g. aaa@foureyessquad.com). Just type it in and click on the Next Step button.

   

3. The next window will ask for details for your new email account such as your password, POP server, and port. It will also ask you what you want to do with the messages that will be downloaded from that account, as always, you have 4 choices:

   

   1. Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server. Usually, when a message is downloaded from an account to a mail fetcher, the message will be archived (or deleted).
   2. Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.
   3. Label incoming messages: [email address]. That is the default, but you may change it to whatever you like. As for me, I did not checked it off, rather I created several filters so the messages will be filed accordingly.
   4. Archive incoming messages (Skip the inbox)

And that’s all there is to it! Easy, isn’t it? You have to wait for a couple of minutes for the messages to be retrieved, after that, Gmail will automagically download your messages whenever a new message arrives for you.

Does your computer last for only a year or so, hangs every so often, and gets struck by virus most of the time? Are you giving it enough hours of rest? Is it cool enough most of the times? Can its memory handle all the applications that you use?

If you still don’t know it by now, computers are like people too! Yep, you read it right, computers may not feel like we do but it also suffers from stress that is brought by overworking and can break down if without proper care - computers, like people, also needs to be looked after to get the right productivity that you expect from it. This article aims to shed some light on how to make your computer happy and efficient that will last for a long time.

Invest on quality hardware, repairs or upgrades as well as up-to-date and original software programs.

One of the mistakes that people make is that whenever they encounter a problem with their computer like hanging and viruses is that they would usually leave it and would not perform any diagnostic tests at all. If you are one of these people, stop the habit for remember, prevention is always better than cure. We have to remember to treat our computers like we would to ourselves whenever we’re sick. We would not just let ourselves be consumed by stress… right?

Investing does not mean keeping up with what’s “the latest”, the “hippest” and the most expensive gadget the market has to offer. It’s basically just giving your computer what it needs for it to function as fast as you want it to be. One thing though, you have to make sure it’s one of the best (but still budget-friendly) so you’re not putting money down the drain. Same goes with software programs, pirated software programs may be cheap when you bought it some where, however, the end result will make you wish you had just settled with the real thing.

One of the downsides of having pirated programs is that because it’s pirated you are not given the opportunity for support as well as the freebies that is available to legal users. Another downside of using illegal programs is that because you are not given the right support, more viruses and other harmful scripts may be left unfiltered by your computer thus, causing more harm and making you shed more money for the cost of the repairs. So for me, it is better to put money out on one go rather than having to shed it one at a time due to screw ups.

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