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This was one of the easiest articles I have written. Just had to follow the steps and bullet them.

I find Outlook is so much easier to configure compared to Thunderbird. Every field is on one screen when compared to Thunderbird. But overall, both are simple to configure. The real difference is with ease of use.

Short entry here but looking forward to some Outlook tricks in the subsequent articles.

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This will be a series of articles on mail clients. I have introduced the topic of mail clients in today's article and I will be writing about configuring mail clients, some tricks etc. I hope this series would be a guide for all those people who are wanting to try a mail client.

Anyway, I use MS exchange at work and I think it's the best thing in this whole wide world. I don't have to know anybody's email address. I can just type their name and press Ctrl+K, to get their email address inserted. Also, I could recall messages if I feel that I could have sent a better message than the previous one.

I am just sold on Outlook and it has become my favorite mail client. I have tried several others like Lotus notes, Thunderbird, Eudora etc but none come closer to Outlook in terms of ease of use and the features it offers. Some features that draw me to Outlook are integrated calendar, contacts, notes and task list.

In my next article, I will write about configuring mail clients.

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When I was new to building websites, I found out regarding the open source CMS' that were floating around at that time. Some of the popular ones at that time were Mambo, XOOPS, PHP Nuke etc. I started installing each one of them and tweaking them as I wanted it to look. Over the years I found out the secret of being successful on the web. It is not the way your website looks nor does it have anything to do with the domain name that you choose. It's all about the quality you can offer to your site visitors. Visitors needs unique content. They don't wanna read the same stuff that has been floating around the internet.

Regarding monetizing my websites, I just put the ads out there and the money kept coming in. I want to help those aspiring web publishers in any least way possible. I encourage you to send me an email if you have a question regarding web publishing or monetizing. Email me at internet at suite101 dot com and I will get back to you asap.

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When it comes to browsers, I am totally biased and I am proud about it. I use Firefox and no other. It has served my purpose. There are some extensions like the web developer extension that I cannot function without. Firefox rarely freezes on me.

I am a web designer. I know the pain that I have to go through web designing just for Internet Explorer. The reason : it doesn't understand the code the other browsers would. I will have to separately write a code for Internet Explorer. Sometimes optimizing for IE could spoil it on Firefox as Firefox strictly goes by the W3C book. I would like to take this opportunity and convert people from IE to Firefox. Get Firefox today.

My only issue with firefox is that it becomes too bulky after installing the required extensions. It takes a long time to load as there are several other programs starting up as extensions.

My optimum browser would be the one which is very light on my system and it should have support for extensions. Installing extensions shouldn't slow down the browser. I am sure the programmers of today are good enough to achieve this target. It is just going to be a matter of time before it is realized. Until then, I will keep using Firefox and at the same time, I will keep criticizing IE.

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I was writing the PCs section before I stepped into the internet arena at Suite101. The only reason for this change is that I have more interest in the current internet technology than in the PC department. If you are a regular reader here, please let me know what interests you either by participating in the poll or by emailing me or by starting a new discussion.

The first article in this section is about the website rojo.com which has caused an addiction in me to this website. I was a bloglines loyalist before and I swore in front of my laptop that I would never switch sides. But the discovery of Rojo has changed my priorities on the internet and it continues to impress me everyday.

I am not sure if this is co-incidence or it was meant to happen. My favorite color is red. Rojo stands for red in Spanish. I am liking this color more than ever before.

Start using rojo and be ready to be swept like dust under the carpet. Let me know what you think about rojo in general. If you feel that there is a better feed reader cum social networking website, I am eager to know about it... Keep me posted and I too will keep you posted on the new websites that spring up everyday.