Archive for February, 2008

How to configure Microsoft Outlook 2007 for Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail accounts

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

It is always good to have one tool for checking all your email accounts such Yahoo, Hotmail and GMail. Microsoft Outlook 2007 provides these options and it is very easy to configure these accounts.

Follow the steps below to configure email accounts of your choice using MS Outlook 2007 settings.

1. Click Tools menu followed by Options

2. The following options dialog box should appear.

Options Dialog

3. Click on the mail setup followed by E-mail Accounts button. This should display option for creating or setting up a new E-mail account.

4. Click on the Add new email account option which displays the following dialog box.

New Email Accounts

5. On Clicking next the following screen should appear where one should enter the details of their email account.

New Email Account Setup

Most of the time the above steps are sufficient to Configure Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail in MS Outlook 2007. And incase if you do need to configure manually server settings or additional server types for Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail then the followings information might be useful.

Configure Hotmail Settings

Homtail Settings

Configure Yahoo Settings

Yahoo Settings

Yahoo More Settings

Yahoo Internet Email Settings

Configure GMail Settings

GMail Settings

GMail More Settings

GMail Internt Settings

How to find mailbox and other folder size in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

There are times when your office mailbox size needs to be less than specified limit as per company’s policy and all employees have to adhere to that. So if you want to determine the folder size of your mailbox or inbox then you can do the following.

Right click the folder for which the size the needs to be determined.

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For example in the above snapshot, if  you want to know the folder size inbox then select inbox on right click the folder and select properties from the menu.

Folder Properties

The above folder property dialog box would be displayed and on clicking Folder Size button the following dialog box appears displaying the folder(s) size.

MS Outlook Folder Size

This way you can make sure and check regularly that you do not exceed the specified mailbox size.

Watch Pepsi new 2008 Super Bowl Ad - Bob’s House

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

The video below shows the Pepsi new 2008 Super Bowl commercial - Bob’s House.. A hilarious commercial created by deaf members of the PepsiCo workforce, EnAble.

 

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