beyond msn and hotmail
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by si
MSN: love it or hate it, it seems you have to tolerate it. At least for the time being. Likewise, Hotmail gains from the same migration bump. Still, there are a couple of things I'm playing with which you might want to try yourself as a kind of MS-nicorette patch.
Meebo is a web-based service that lets you log on to MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, AOL and GTalk. It's got strong encryption, history and can store your passwords.
GetMail runs on your computer and, as the name suggests, goes and gets your hotmail and forwards it to wherever you want. I haven't got it working but it looks pretty sweet and might finally get you onto a decent webmail with sweet integrated chat.
[...] Following Pascal’s lead, and Matt’s comment, I just created an MSN passport of msn at simonhammond.com. I’ll be moving over to this from the old spankysimon at hotmail.com so update now if you are bothered about keeping in touch and are still hooked on MSN. [...]