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When choosing settings for an email account the choice of whether to choose IMAP or Pop3 comes up. The basic difference between the two in practical terms is that Pop3 generally deletes the email on the server when it has downloaded to your email client ( such as Outlook or Windows Mail) while IMAP leaves a copy on the server until you delete it.

First off, lets explain the process.

Someone send you an email. Although the address belongs to you, this email goes into a place that is similar to a P O Box, but on your server.

The server in this case is the website from the company that you signed up with to give you your internet connection. The email address shows this as the site after the @ sign in the email address.  The “number” of the P O Box is the bit before, that you chose.  For an email address such as janedoe@internetprovider.com – janedoe is equivalent of a P O Box number – and  internetprovider.com is the internet providers website.

You can visit the website and view the email online. Or you can set up an email client program to download the email to your computer.

So the process looks like this…

email sent – email stored on server – email downloaded to your computer.

Obviously, you need an internet connection to do this.

Most internet providers use a pop3 connection. Their settings will be viewable on their website so that you can check how to setup their account. If it is only Pop3 then once the download to your email client has taken place, the P O Box is empty.

Why IMAP has more functionality

If you have your own website you can choose to make your server an IMAP server. This is especially useful if you travel or if several people such as a business may need to access this email from different places. IMAP will download the emails to your computer, but it keeps a copy of the emails in the P O Box on the server.

This means a colleague can also download it to their computer ( while the copy still remains there) or if you are travelling, you can refer to this email again on a laptop even though you have already downloaded it to your home computer.

IMAP will also set up individual folders for different email addresses making it easy to categorize and separate emails if you have different businesses or services.

If your internet provider gives you a choice between Pop3 and IMAP and you will need to check their terms to see if they do, this may be a useful tool for you. To find out, look for email set up FAQs on the sites sitemap.

If your internet provider does not give you this option but you would like to have the option and do not have your own website then choosing a free service such as gmail is the way to go.

Gmail is an IMAP server.

By having a Gmail email address, you can download the emails to your computer but they remain on the Gmail server until you delete them. You can also choose to archive them so the mail box does not become too massive and hard to navigate but the old emails remain there as a record if you wish to retrieve information from them at a later date.

Synchronization

Your client generally synchronises the PO Box on the server with your interface inside the client. Therefore if you delete an email on your computer it deletes the copy on the server. To remove but not delete emails, you can create a new folder and move old emails into it for archiving. This is the best way to keep important emails but not have them keep cluttering up your inbox.

If multiple people access an email inbox and there is a risk that an email may be deleted by someone accidentaly you can set permissions for people so they are either allowed to delete emails or not allowed.

This is My Favourite Free CSS Style Sheet Editor

I tried out a number of free CSS editors but this is the one that I kept and use . It is freeware and on the website is a very well written tutorial to show you how to learn to write a CSS sheet from scratch. I mostly use it for giving me the correct syntax for modifying template CSS style sheets in blogs .

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While you are there also get the free palette which is invaluable for checking and picking colours. You can paste in a hex color to see what it looks like or  select a color to get the number.

Note the eyedropper tool. If you have a color in your header image you’d like to use as a font colour or a sidebar frame color, click on the eyedropper and rest it over the color you are interested in. When the box shows the exact color you want, click and you will be given the hex code for it. So cool!

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Images for WordPress Websites
Here we look at how images affect web page layout and what image sizes you should be using so not to affect your page layout.

You can show or hide your desktop icons in Windows XP or Vista. Just a little tip but for those who prefer to see their wallpaper rather than a mass of icons but still wish to have those icons available to use when they choose its a neat freaks joy to be able to show or hide them at the click of a mouse.

How to add an image to a wordpress post or page.

This video is no longer visually current for the new version of WordPress but essentially there are only minor differences. You will just need to click on the picture icon (the first square box image just above the editor) to get to the browse screen to upload a picture. The boxes for dimensions and other attributes are in different places but this video does explain how to set them and what they are for.

You want to compress movies to fit more data on a dvd? This tutorial video recommends several free useful programs to help convert dvd movies so you can burn them to a second dvd. Good tips on the important settings you need to make using these programs.

A good tutorial video on converting DVD ifo files to Avi without losing video quality and sound. Make your movie smaller to fit 5 movies on one dvd disc. These settings make a good quality movie file that keeps the sound in sinc with the video. I am using the free divx codec and lame mp3 audio codec.

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What is the difference between hubs and switches?
This is a hardware video tutorial explanation. What is the difference between a hub and a switch and which one should you use.

Some folders are smart and some are simply plain. If you place pictures in the MyPictures folder then you are automatically given options such as to view pictures as a film strip and play a slide show. This video shows you how to make a plain folder “smart”.

The same thing can be done by right clicking on a folder icon, choosing properties and the tab to customize a folder. It is especially useful for picture folders but music and video folders also offer benefits.

So here’s a great computer tip. Apply a menu template to a folder. For example if you have pictures in a new folder, you can enable it to have menus on the left like the My Pictures folder.