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Receive Hotmail through Gmail?!

2009-02-20T21:39:00.000-08:00

Can you receive the email in Hotmail using Gmail? Yes, you can.

Microsoft Hotmail has announced that it supports POP3 partly. so I am going to give a try. Today, when I switched to Gmail(english version), I tried to add the PoP3 address of Hotmail.

Yeah, I succeeded. I received all the Hotmail emails at one time, which meaned that I need not login in Hotmail forever.

How to set up?

1. add a POP3 account in "settings-Accounts";

2.set username=hotmail username, set POP Server=pop3.live.com, and set port=995, at last, select all the three options below.

Now, you can enjoy the Hotmail email in Gmail.

GMail and hotmail, who will smile to the end?

2009-02-18T20:36:00.000-08:00

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According to the data from the institute comScore, Gmail has become the fourth email service provider. the first three are Yahoo mail, AOL Mail and Microsoft live Hotmail.

comScore says that Gmail has get a 43% progress last year. Now the number of customers using Gmail has reached 29,600,000. The data for Yahoo mail is 11% progress,
9190 total number, AOL: 4660 total number and Hotmail: 4350 total number but with -5% progress.

If Gmail can keep this progress speed, it will outgrow Hotmail at the end of this year and AOL next year.

Gmail has provided many more functions than other service providers. Mobile Gmail version has been updated, and provides the IMAP, POP3 and other interesting functions.

With reserach from the Gmail lab, Gmail will advance more quickly and easily. Let us expect better news from Gmail

How many popular web2.0 sites do you know?

2009-02-15T20:30:00.000-08:00

Image by tattoodjj via Flickr

there are now 14 popular web2.0 sites I like very much, what are yours?

1 Myspace.com
2 wordpress
3 Flickr
4 Youtube
5 Revver and Metacafe
6 Newsvine
7 Yahoo
8 Digg
9 Skype
10 facebook
11 del.icio.us
12 Google
13 37signals
14 Netvibes

Google sync online tool for your phone

2009-02-09T20:18:00.000-08:00

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Have you thought of updating your phone contacts online? Now Google provides a new service named Google Sync.

This service supports IPhone, windows Mobile. you can easily update your Gmail contacts and Google calendar. About other kinds of phones, Google says they will provide the support later.

Google Sync uses the Push technology to update information from Google calendar and contacts to your phone. It works at the backend automatically. Of course, the reverse process is also supported.

Only if your phone supports SynML protocal, you can use Google sync. for blackberry, you can use another version of Google sync.

Microsoft creates the Active sync, but you know that it only supports Windows mobile phones.

Below is one video on how to use Google sync tool:

Do you know these blocked websites?

2009-02-05T20:08:00.000-08:00

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Adult websites are always blocked before, but nowadays, some social networking websites are also blocked by school, corporation and other organizations.

According to the data from OpenDNS, the top 10 websites blocked are:

1. MySpace.com

　　2. Facebook.com

　　3. YouTube.com

　　4. Playboy.com

　　5. Ebay.com

　　6. Meebo.com

　　7. Friendster.com

　　8. Orkut.com

　　9. AdultFriendFinder.com

　　10. Espn.com

There are total 5 social websites in this list. you can see the most popular Myspace is also blocked. the most successful online e-business site: ebay can not escape the fate either.

A free and open source proxy server software

2009-02-01T20:01:00.000-08:00

Several days ago, I found an open source Http Proxy named GAppProxy. After using it for several days, I found it could provide sound speed.

GAppProxy is written in Python and run on the Google App Engine. Google App Engine provides the advantages for GAppProxy, that is, it needs not special server for Proxy function.

The use of GAppProxy is easy: download GAppProxy, run gui.exe, config IE or firefox with HTTP proxy set to be 127.0.0.1:8000. Then you can use it to access the internet.

Registering Google Affiliate Network

2009-01-25T19:53:00.000-08:00

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Although the recommendation from Google has been stopped for a long time, you can still use a new service from Google to make money: Google Affiliate network.

It is not easy to find the register address. So I list it here:

http://www.connectcommerce.com

Now, Google affiliate use a separate account to login in which is different from your Google account. But you can take effort to merge them on.