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Specimen-OMO
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 Posted - Nov 07 2009 : 19:12:34
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I didn't realize that Win 7 does not have an email program. What are you all working with?
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TLBFestus
Is it safe?
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Posted - Nov 07 2009 : 20:43:57
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I'm using Windows Live email, but honestly I'm not greatly enamoured with it.
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BentProp-OMO
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 Posted - Nov 07 2009 : 22:42:18
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I have been using Mozilla Thunderbird for several years with good results. Works great for pop3 and webmail accounts. The website doesn't list Win7 as compatible yet, but it reportedly works fine.
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
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medicated
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Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 06:25:21
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Festy, when I see your little mouse there I can just feel my tooth enamel getting thinner and thinner. Specimen about the email...Ive used hotmail for over 10 years now with the same addy with no problems. I have several other msn emails as well and have no problems. They are under msn.com, live.com and hotmail.com. I jump between my XP main comp to my Win 7 RC testers with no issues as well. Lots of people are getting free email connected to their myspace accounts too.
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 Evil is powerless.....if the good are unafraid. (Ronald Regan)
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word, and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. - General Colin Powell
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Stingray
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Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 07:39:55
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Using Web based E-mail now. That way I don't have to worry about moving files around anymore.
Hotmail for our primary stuff, only cause we've had the address for so long, changing it would be a pita. Gmail for everything else.
Took sometime abandoning Outlook/Hotmail, but now I kinda like ti this way.
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HEARTBURN-OMO
Spammer wannabe
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Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 10:06:55
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I guess what I hate about Outlook is I have suffered numerous crashes in the past few years and I always seem to lose my email. Since I am too lazy to put them into other files I tend to have numerous folders within outlook. So, I I lose the hd, then I'm shafted. However, I did one smart thing lately. I got the program Carbonite that backs up everything on all my computers, even email. So, now I don't worry so much.....but, we'll see next time everything crashes, if it lives up to its hype. For 50 bucks a year...very good investment.
Sorry, got off on a tangent..
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TLBFestus
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Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 10:24:15
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My avatar is a rodent. Their teeth continue to grow as long as they are alive, so he can brush all he wants.
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Bedpan-OMO
Too much coffee, Not a good thing.
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Posted - Nov 09 2009 : 06:12:04
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Google mail is my favorite and I've used Hotmail for years as well, both are very good. Microsoft does have an email program for Win7; it's in the Windows Live Essentials free download package.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-live-essentials
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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, bourbon in one hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!" |
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Cadaver-OMO
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Posted - Nov 10 2009 : 00:18:02
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That's one thing that is not appealing to me about Windows 7, taking away the desktop programs and trying to coax you into Windows Live. Did you notice they got rid of the photo organizer they had in Vista (can't remember what it's called) as well? It was one of the features that was actually well-received. It ticks me off; I want a desktop OS, not cloud-computing. I'm still on XP and don't have anything Windows-live running at all. I want my photos to reside on my hard drive, period.
Regarding your question, Spec... I've never been a huge Mozilla fan, but I too am running Thunderbird. It has a calendar add-on called Lightning. Both of them togethor aren't bad, plus there is a lifetime money-back guarantee... To be fair, the whole open-source-community thing behind Mozilla makes me want to retch almost as much as MS trying to force cloud-computing down my throat. The brief time I spent running Firefox had me feeling like I was running a program developed in someone's basement rather than being a quality web browser. Thunderbird isn't quite so bad, and right now it represents the lesser of all the evils for me.
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Bedpan-OMO
Too much coffee, Not a good thing.
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Posted - Nov 10 2009 : 12:19:15
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Cadaver you neanderthal you! XP, ha! You still use your Atari 2600?
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TLBFestus
Is it safe?
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Posted - Nov 10 2009 : 13:34:29
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Mozilla Firefox is IMHO vastly superior to the crud they call "Internet Explorer".
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Cadaver-OMO
Dead Man Flying
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Posted - Nov 10 2009 : 14:40:11
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I use my 2600 as my hot-rod, gaming rig BP... otherwise its my TRS-80 :)
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HEARTBURN-OMO
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Cadaver-OMO
Dead Man Flying
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Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 00:11:25
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Don't knock the TRS-80, either... you can play Zork with all of the graphics set to "high" :D
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Bedpan-OMO
Too much coffee, Not a good thing.
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Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 12:43:25
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The Trash 80 was a great machine! Had one once!
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Cadaver-OMO
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Posted - Nov 11 2009 : 16:03:34
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Yeah, and they didn't try to replace TRS-DOS with TRS Vista or TRS 7 either!
I think the only TRS-80 that existed in my home town during that time was at our high school, and I used to spend the occasional afternoon after 7th grade school in the math classroom goofing around with it. Lots of time spent rewinding and loading games from cassette tapes.
At home, I cut my teeth programming writing BASIC on the TRS-80's "white trash" cousin, the ZX81 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81), compliments of my dad. He was working as an administrator for Boise Cascade, but he was a computer geek at heart. I miss the old days when those of us who knew how to use computers were made fun as the nerds , but secretly represented the elite class :)
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Bedpan-OMO
Too much coffee, Not a good thing.
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 18:15:47
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Ah, so what did you pick Specimen?
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Specimen-OMO
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 20:11:38
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nothing yet, I still have my email on my son's 'new machine' as well as Office 93. I was thinking of picking up a 64 bit (if there is one) MS Works 9 to run on this one.
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Kayjay
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Posted - Nov 12 2009 : 21:30:55
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Free as in you don't want to pay for it, or free as in they don't charge for it?
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Specimen-OMO
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Posted - Nov 13 2009 : 05:10:29
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looking at everything..
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Bedpan-OMO
Too much coffee, Not a good thing.
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Posted - Nov 13 2009 : 07:27:56
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Originally posted by Specimen-OMO
nothing yet, I still have my email on my son's 'new machine' as well as Office 93. I was thinking of picking up a 64 bit (if there is one) MS Works 9 to run on this one.
Before you buy anything try Open Office!
http://www.openoffice.org/
I've used this for years and, for home use, it is sufficient!
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Edited by - Bedpan-OMO on Nov 13 2009 07:43:56 |
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Wanted - Free, Good, email program
