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Atlast, email are going to change again and know what this time too hotmail is one to turn the tide.

Now, Hotmail has unveiled over 250 custom domain mail ids, all listed under www.CoolHotmail.com. The Domains are categorised in 5 as — ‘where I Live’ , ‘who I am’ , ‘who i Like’ , ‘What I Like’ and ‘I don’t Fit’. So, now you can have an email like yourname@delhirocks.in or yourname@liveingoa.com.

For a long time there have been services that provided ‘custom domain mail service’ but zero quality. Only this time that someone like this giant [ read: Microsoft ] is there to take care of quality and also microsoft has included a lot of India based domains.

The Online giant Google also provide custom domain but then its lot different then this. Google under its ‘Google Apps’ brand provide free mail server but there you have to purchase a domain and a basic DNS knowledge is also needed for custom DNS Settings.

All this leads a lot of cost and ‘headache’ for users. BTW who needs to take somuch painwhen we can so many COOLMAIL ID’s for free.

A prominent Indian newspaper report, refering ‘highly placed sources’, says that ‘Google has developed an offline version of Gmail’, Google’s famous email service, and is likely to be released within this year.

Gmail and e-mail have today become almost synonymous for many, with built-in features like a browser-based chat and other applications that have added to the traction.

Through Google Gears, just like Google Reader lets you work offline, GMail users will be able to browse, reply, save drafts and do everything that currently Gmail does online, in an offline mode even without an Internet connection.

The Google developing GMail Offline news is reported by a leading Indian newspaper though the Google spokeswoman in India officially denied such a thing.
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Google mail, GMail, is a web-based email system. I have hated web-based email systems for many, many years. That said, I am going to confess that I actually like gmail. No, I don’t love it but I do like it.

Most web mail applications are pretty much the same. You see some message titles and from addresses, you can view, delete, respond or save in another folder. You have some limited amount of storage for your messages and when you run out you need to clean up your mess.

Some are prettier, some allow you to do things to multiple message at a time and some are more configurable. But, they just don’t present anything radically different. In fact, they convinced me there really wasn’t room for anything radically different until I started using GMail.

Figure 1 shows a piece of a screen shot of the interface. I think that is a good place to start our discussion. On the left under the Compose link you see a list of “places” you can display. This is almost like mail boxes but, for example, Starred refers to messages where Continue reading »