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Receive Web Mails in Desktop Email Client

Dear All, Now a day almost all of them who are familiar with the computer world may be at least having one Web Based Email ID with them. There are many free email web based service providers such as Yahoo! (1GB), GMail (>2GB), MSN (250 MB) (Windows Live Mail on its way, 2GB, http://ideas.live.com, Read my review: http://barathonline.blogspot.com). These are very useful to receive hell a lot of emails. There are great advantages that they can be accessed anywhere from any part of the world. But that needs internet connection. That means you are bound to have internet connection when you want to view the mails. On the other hand we have POP mails which comes with a disadvantage of viewing in web(Though many service providers also include web access, the interface and usability is not as good as web email service providers). How will be when you get your Yahoo, MSN or GMail into your POP Mail clients such as Outlook express/Outlook and can be viewed even when you are not connected on t

Beautify Your XP...

Dear all, It has been almost 4 years since windows XP has released. After the release the updates are only for security issues not majorly for User Interfaces. There is Microsoft Plus! but that even does not give much different look to your desktop. Windows XP comes with three appearance theme + Classic Style. Classic style is similar to those of Windows 2000/Me/98 system interfaces. Windows XP theme was quiet amazing when we saw for the first time. New schema of colours.. High depth icons etc etc. But when we (I) look at the same interface.. which i have been seeing for long time.. it is boring. Sometimes u feel .. "Hey daily seeing the same face". Though u change wallpaper there is nothing to it. The other OS's such as Mac OSX (No 1 in user interface), or Even many Linux distributions are getting more beautiful in terms of look and feel. For windows XP users , there are numerous and numerous thirdparty windows beautifiers. Few examples are 1. Window Blinds from Object D