Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook

I have been trying out Windows Live Mail for a few days. I think I love it! I have always used Outlook Express and liked it [Mrs. M now dodges tomatoes]. Yes, I have tried other email clients (Eudora, Thunderbird, Outlook, other no-name brands) and just preferred OE.

My only bone of contention with OE is that it has not been able to configure for my Gmail (no big deal; I’m not terribly fond of Gmail and all my Gmail is forwarded to my MSN email anyway). It also doesn’t like my free hotmail account. Weird. So I have juggled two email clients– OE for all my POP3 emails, and Hotmail for my hotmail account.

Well! I am using Windows Live Mail, and it handles them all! I think I love this thing. But I love it even more for two other reasons:

1. Every time I get an email, a little notification window pops up. I love this! I like to know when my email comes, because sometimes I get so busy and completely forget to check. This is wonderfully helpful.

2. I can minimize the program into the system tray! Woohoo! This has got to be the best part of it. I don’t like clutter in my taskbar (I usually have only, oh, TEN programs running simultaneously). The email program sitting in the taskbar was always a thorn in my side. But not anymore. Finally.

The only thing I couldn’t figure out was that Windows Live Mail was not saving my “Sent” messages, even though I had configured it to do it. Wha? If I opened my Outlook Express, I found my Sent messages in that program. Then it dawned on me: make Windows Live Mail the default mail program! I did, and voila! All fixed.

I am not great big fan of Windows programs. I usually delete them or uninstall them when they bombard my computer. But I am very impressed with WLM. If you want to try it, it’s here. You’ll need a “live” or “hotmail” account, or be willing to create one.

MilehiMama over at Mama Says is asking for help with a new ‘do. Template tutorials are always difficult over long distances (like the Internet), but there are thousands of people with websites who can help. I was sifting through my free Blogger templates links, and found a very nice and simple Blogger tutorial. Check out Blog Flak for some really great lessons and how-to’s on basic template techniques. The site hasn’t been updated in a while (life and writing tutorials with pictures sure can consume time; boy, do I know that!) but what is there is very good.

I’m hoping Mama gets a really smashing (not crashing) new template– her site will look like a million bucks when it’s over, I’m sure!

P.S. Her posts are very good! Check it out.