Date Archives October 2023

How to Add or Update Security Information in Hotmail, Live, or Outlook Account

There are millions of people in the world use Hotmail, or its other Microsoft account variants like Live.com, or Outlook.com. Among these huge number of users, thousands of them have problems in accessing their account because of having forgotten their passwords or because their accounts were hacked. This is when security information come very useful. When you are unable to access your Hotmail, Live or Outlook.com, your very first and the fastest option to recover the account is to reset the password. By resetting, you will not be asked for… Read More

How to increase the default timeout settings in Mozilla Thunderbird

If you are using Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client in your Windows or Mac, you might need to do some tweak in the default settings of Thunderbird particularly, its default timeout setting. This setting is responsible in setting a limit of the connection or negotiation protocol that governs or affects your sending or receiving of emails. If you are sending an email with a huge attachment, it requires a longer time to complete the sending since the attachment needs to be uploaded first prior to sending. If the timeout… Read More

How to Change and Configure Gmail Inbox Behavior

Gmail is one of the widely used email account in the world today. It is fast, reliable and most of all, it is free. By default, Gmail comes with cool features that are readily available and is fitting to everyday email needs. With its pack of features, most people don’t even find a need to change how Gmail behaves. However, Gmail is also a very flexible email system. You can change many things and settings that affects how you use the email service. And one of the features that you… Read More

Microsoft Excel Tips: How to calculate the number of days, months or years between two dates

One of the fundamental questions that Excel users may find themselves asking is “How to calculate the number of years, months, or days between two given dates?” This article will show the ways or methods in calculating days, months or years between 2 given dates. There are certain situations when you want to know the number of days, months or years. For instance, in computing rentals or amortizations, in comparing usage or consumption, and many other scenarios, knowing how to calculate the days, months and even years will be vital…. Read More

How to Avoid Email Scam and Spam

The email population is getting bigger as many people are getting or subscribing to an email account or accounts everyday. Also, there are several email providers today that allows people to create an email account with them for free. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and AOL are among them. This is also the main reason why hackers and spammers are targeting emails since hundreds of millions of people are using emails. Therefore, with this great number of emails out there, the more email addresses that the hacker can scrape the web… Read More

Microsoft Excel Tip: How to lock cells and make them un-editable

There are certain times and conditions when you feel the need that other people can only edit or add and modify data from selected cells in your Excel sheet. The rest of the cells in the sheet or workbook must be un-editable. Example of these Excel sheets are survey questionnaires wherein other people can just input their answers but not alter the questions. Others can be a fillable form wherein other people can just enter their personal or other information but the form content and layout are locked for editing…. Read More

Hotmail Tip: How to remove all ads from Hotmail / Outlook.com email views

As you use your powerful and full-featured Hotmail, now called Outlook.com interface, you might have noticed that sometimes, advertisements appear in your Inbox. These ads are cool at times but sometimes, they can be annoying. Ever wonder how to eliminate those ads? Like Gmail, Yandex, or Yahoo Mail, Hotmail (Outlook.com) is also offering their email service for free. As a result, Hotmail runs some ads to monetize their email service and pay for their infrastructure and product improvements through research and development. If you want to have a clean Hotmail… Read More