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Have you been with AOL forever and you finally are making the switch to another Internet and email service? If so, you’re probably like everyone else who makes the switch from AOL in that you have been with them forever, and you don’t want to lose all of your contacts that you have accumulated over the years. Completely understandable. I would be the same way.

Well, here’s how to export your AOL address book into a format that pretty much any other service or email client can import.

  1. Go to http://mail.aol.com
  2. Log into your AOL account that has all of the contacts that you want to export
  3. Click on CONTACTS on the left
  4. Click on TOOLS>EXPORT above the list of email messages
  5. Select CSV file (comma separated value)
  6. Save to your computer (remember where you save it to)
  7. Open up the email service or email client that you want to import your address book into
  8. Import the CSV file that you just exported into the desired address book (check the instructions for that service or client on how to import it)
  9. Done!


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Have you ever been in the situation where you want to send someone a text message, but don’t have a cell phone on hand? Well here’s how to do it, easily:

The first way to send a text message to a cell phone from your computer is go the carrier’s website and look for a tool that most carriers have on their website that allows you to send a text message to one of their subscribers.

If you are not sure what carrier the number you want to text to is on, then just to here and enter it:

https://www.wirelessamberalerts.org/index.jsp

You do not need to sign up for the alerts to get the carrier. After you first submit the number, it will ask you to agree to their TOA (Terms of Agreement). On that same page, it will tell you what carrier that phone number is on.

Or you can also try this one:

http://www.telcodata.us/telcodata/telco

But that one is not as accurate as the first one that I mentioned, as it only asks for the area code and the prefix. So it is not checking the exact number. I actually tried some area codes and prefixes, and at least one was not accurate.

The second way, which is easier and quicker, is to simply send them an email. All you have to do is look at the list below of 106 providers, delete the user name of the email address that corresponds with the carrier that the person who you are sending a text message to has, and replace it with their phone number.

So, for example, if I wanted to send a friend a text message from my computer, and my friend has Verizon as their carrier, then I would do this:

Friend’s cell number who has Verizon as their carrier: (555) 123-1212
Default Verizon Email for texting to Verizon numbers: number@vtext.com
Email address that I’ll use to send a text message to my friend: 5551231212@vtext.com

Take note of the amount of characters you are able to put in your text message. The amount of characters allowed by each carrier is noted in the list below. If you don’t want to count them yourself, then copy and paste what you want to write into a blank MS Word document, and then go to TOOLS>WORD COUNT. The number that you want to look at is the one that is labeled, “characters with spaces”.

Enjoy!

  1. Aliant (NBTel, MTT, NewTel, and Island Tel) Max 140 characters – number@chat.wirefree.ca
  2. Alltel Max 116 characters – number@message.alltel.com.
  3. Ameritech (ACSWireless) Max 120 characters – number@paging.acswireless.com
  4. Arch Wireless Max http://www.arch.com/message/ (assumes blank PIN)
  5. AT&T Max 160 characters – number@txt.att.net
  6. AU by KDDI Max 10000 characters – username@ezweb.ne.jp
  7. BeeLine GSM Max 255 characters – number@sms.beemail.ru
  8. Bell Mobility Canada Max 120 characters – number@txt.bellmobility.ca
  9. Bellsouth Max 160 characters – number@bellsouth.cl
  10. BellSouth Mobility Max 160 characters – number@blsdcs.net
  11. Blue Sky Frog Max 120 characters – number@blueskyfrog.com
  12. Boost Max 120 characters – number@myboostmobile.com
  13. Cellular South Max 155 characters – number@csouth1.com
  14. CellularOne (Dobson) Max 120 characters – number@mobile.celloneusa.com
  15. CellularOne West Max 120 characters – number@mycellone.com
  16. Centennial Wireless Max 110 characters – http://www.centennialwireless.com
  17. Cincinnati Bell Max 50 characters – number@gocbw.com
  18. Claro Max 160 characters – number@clarotorpedo.com.br
  19. Comviq Max 160 characters – number@sms.comviq.se
  20. Dutchtone/Orange-NL Max 150 characters – number@sms.orange.nl
  21. Edge Wireless Max 160 characters – number@sms.edgewireless.com
  22. EinsteinPCS / Airadigm Communications Max 160 characters – number@einsteinsms.com
  23. EPlus Max 480 characters – number@smsmail.eplus.de
  24. Estonia Mobile Telefon Max 160 characters – Sent via webform.
  25. Fido Canada Max 140 characters – number@fido.ca
  26. Golden Telecom Max 160 characters – number@sms.goldentele.com. Enter your phone number or nickname.
  27. Idea Cellular Max 160 characters – number@ideacellular.net
  28. Kyivstar Max 160 characters – number@sms.kyivstar.net
  29. LMT Max 120 characters – username@sms.lmt.lv
  30. Manitoba Telecom Systems Max 120 characters – PhoneNumber@text.mtsmobility.com
  31. Meteor Max 160 characters – number@sms.mymeteor.ie
  32. Metro PCS Max 120 characters – number@mymetropcs.com
  33. Metrocall Pager Max 120 characters – number@page.metrocall.com
  34. MobileOne Max 160 characters – number@m1.com.sg
  35. Mobilfone Max 160 characters – number@page.mobilfone.com
  36. Mobility Bermuda Max 160 characters – number@ml.bm
  37. MTS Primtel Max 160 characters – Sent via web gateway.
  38. Aliant (NBTel, MTT, NewTel, and Island Tel) Max 140 characters – number@chat.wirefree.ca
  39. Netcom Max 160 characters – number@sms.netcom.no
  40. Nextel Max 126 characters – 10digits@messaging.nextel.com
  41. NPI Wireless Max 160 characters – number@npiwireless.com
  42. NTC Max 160 characters – Sent via web gateway
  43. O2 (formerly BTCellnet) Max 120 characters – username@o2.co.uk, must be enabled first at http://www.o2.co.uk
  44. O2 M-mail (formerly BTCellnet) Max 120 characters – +44[number]@mmail.co.uk. Enter phone number, omitting initial Zero – must be enabled first by sending an SMS saying “ON” to phone number “212″.
  45. Optus Max 114 characters – PhoneNumber@optusmobile.com.au
  46. Orange (UK) Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@orange.net. You will need to create a user account at orange.net first
  47. Oskar Max 320 characters – PhoneNumber@mujoskar.cz
  48. Pagenet Max 240 characters, 10-digit phone number (or gateway and pager number separated by a period). Goes to number@pagenet.net.
  49. PCS Rogers Max 125 characters – number@pcs.rogers.com. Requires prior registration with PCS Rogers.
  50. Personal Communication (Sonet) Max 150 characters – sms@pcom.ru with your number in the subject line.
  51. Plus GSM Poland Max 620 characters – number@text.plusgsm.pl.
  52. Powertel Max 120 characters – number@ptel.net
  53. Primtel Max 150 characters – number@sms.primtel.ru
  54. PSC Wireless Max 150 characters – number@sms.pscel.com
  55. Qualcomm Max 120 characters – username@pager.qualcomm.com
  56. Qwest Max 100 characters – PhoneNumber@qwestmp.com
  57. Safaricom Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@safaricomsms.com
  58. Satelindo GSM Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@satelindogsm.com
  59. SCS-900 Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@scs-900.ru
  60. Simple Freedom Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@text.simplefreedom.net
  61. Skytel – Alphanumeric Max 240 characters – Enter your 7-digit pin # as your # and your message will be mailed to pin@skytel.com
  62. Smart Telecom Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@mysmart.mymobile.ph
  63. Smarts GSM Max 70 characters – http://www.samara-gsm.ru/scripts/smsgate.exe
  64. Southern Linc Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@page.southernlinc.com
  65. Sprint PCS Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
  66. Sprint PCS – Short Mail Max 1000 characters – PhoneNumber@sprintpcs.com
  67. SunCom Max 110 characters – number@tms.suncom.com
  68. SureWest Communications Max 200 characters – number@mobile.surewest.com
  69. SwissCom Mobile Max 10000 characters – number@bluewin.ch
  70. T-Mobile Germany Max 160 characters – number@T-D1-SMS.de
  72. T-Mobile Netherlands Max 160 characters, Send “EMAIL ON” to 555 from your FON, then enter your # starting with 316. Email will be sent to number@gin.nl
  73. T-Mobile UK Max 160 characters – number@t-mobile.uk.net
  74. T-Mobile USA Max 160 characters – number@tmomail.net
  75. T-Mobile USA (Sidekick) Max 10000 characters – username@tmail.com
  76. Tele2 Latvia Max 160 characters – number@sms.tele2.lv
  77. Telefonica Movistar Max 120 characters – number@movistar.net
  78. Telenor Max 160 characters – number@mobilpost.no
  79. Telia Denmark Max 160 characters – number@gsm1800.telia.dk
  80. Telus Mobility Max 120 characters – 10digits@msg.telus.com
  81. The Phone House Max 160 characters – number@sms.phonehouse.de
  82. TIM Max 350 characters – number@timnet.com
  83. UMC Max 120 characters – number@sms.umc.com.ua
  84. Unicel Max 120 characters – number@utext.com
  85. US Cellular Max 150 characters – number@email.uscc.net
  86. Verizon Wireless Max 140 characters – number@vtext.com
  87. Verizon Wireless (formerly Airtouch) Max 120 characters – number@airtouchpaging.com. This is ONLY for former AirTouch customers.
  88. Verizon Wireless (myairmail.com) Max 140 characters – number@myairmail.com
  89. Vessotel Max 800 characters – roumer@pager.irkutsk.ru
  90. Virgin Mobile Canada Max 140 characters – number@vmobile.ca
  91. Virgin Mobile USA Max 160 characters – number@vmobl.com
  92. Vodafone Italy Max 132 characters – number@sms.vodafone.it
  93. Vodafone Japan (Chuugoku/Western) Max 160 characters – number@n.vodafone.ne.jp
  94. Vodafone Japan (Hokkaido) Max 160 characters – number@d.vodafone.ne.jp
  95. Vodafone Japan (Hokuriko/Central North) Max 160 characters – number@r.vodafone.ne.jp
  96. Vodafone Japan (Kansai/West — including Osaka) Max 160 characters – number@k.vodafone.ne.jp
  97. Vodafone Japan (Kanto/Koushin/East — including Tokyo) Max 160 characters – number@t.vodafone.ne.jp
  98. Vodafone Japan (Kyuushu/Okinawa) Max 160 characters – number@q.vodafone.ne.jp
  99. Vodafone Japan (Shikoku) Max 160 characters – number@s.vodafone.ne.jp
  100. Vodafone Japan (Touhoku/Niigata/North) Max 160 characters – number@h.vodafone.ne.jp
  101. Vodafone Japan (Toukai/Central) Max 160 characters – number@c.vodafone.ne.jp
  102. Vodafone Spain Max 90 characters – username@vodafone.es
  103. Vodafone UK Max 90 characters – username@vodafone.net
  104. Voicestream – 10digitnumber@voicestream.net 140 characters
  105. Weblink Wireless Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@airmessage.net
  106. WellCom Max 160 characters – PhoneNumber@sms.welcome2well.com
  107. WyndTell Max 500 characters – PhoneNumber@wyndtell.com


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Do you want to email a large file, let’s say over 10MB, (which is the limit for many free email services like Gmail)? Well, there is a way and it’s free.


There are actually many services that do this for free. Basically, you’re uploading the large file to their servers (computers), and then they will send a download link to that file to the recipient so they can download it. Just know that some of these services has time limits as to how long the file will be available for download before it’s deleted.

By far, the most popular of these services is www.yousendit.com. I have not used the service, but I know a lot of people use it. About.com actually did an article on it, and they listed 8 such services. However, they didn’t mention which one is the best.

So instead of testing them all, I did the next best thing. I did some research to see how much traffic (visitors) each website gets. I did my research at Alexa.com, which is a great place to find out how much traffic a website is getting. Below are the results. The number next to each service is the worldwide website traffic rank for each website. The lower the number, the better.

yousendit.com 1,042
pando.com 22,484
transferbigfiles.com 27,304
sendthisfile.com 33,119
mailbigfile.com 39,555
send6.com 247,421
tonsho.com 2,229,832
podmailing.com – link no longer valid 3,701,540

As you can see, yousendit.com is bar far the most popular. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the best. One of the others could be a better one, but it might be new, or it might not have as much marketing power behind it, etc. So, I would suggest you test some of them out and decide for yourself.

Send away!

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Do you have more than one email address configured in your Mail program on your Mac, and you want to change the email address that it normally sends from?

No problem. All you have to do is this:

1. Open Mail
2. Go to the MAIL MENU in the upper left corner of your screen and select PREFERENCES
3. Click on the COMPOSING tab
4. Half way down, you’ll see SEND NEW MESSAGES FROM. Click the pop-up menu to the right of it and select the email address that you normally want to send email from
5. Click the red circle/button in the upper left corner of that window to close it
6. Done!

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Do you want to view the full header of an email in gmail so you can track the email and see where it’s coming from?

If so, here’s how:

1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. Open the email in question (the one whose full header you want to view)
3. Click the down arrow next to REPLY in the top right corner of the email message pane
4. Select SHOW ORIGINAL (it will open up in a new window)
5. Done!

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Are you getting double emails in Opera when you configure your Gmail account in Opera using the IMAP format? If so, here is the fix:


1. Open Opera
2. Up top, go to MAIL>IMAP Folders
3. Unsubscribe (uncheck) the following folders:
1. [Gmail]/All Mail
2. [Gmail]/Sent Mail

Click OK. You should be good to go, but if not, then hit your “Check/Send” button so that it will reset itself.

Just so you know, when using Gmail’s SMTP servers, a copy of the message automatically goes to the sent folder.

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In this video, I walk you through, step-by-step, the process of setting up your email in Outlook Express so you can send and receive email via Outlook Express in POP3 format (downloading the email to your computer).

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In this video, I walk you through, step-by-step, the process of setting up your email in Outlook Express so you can send and receive email via Outlook Express in IMAP format (viewing your email on your mail server via Outlook Express).

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