Two slick apps worth checking out… forward hotmail to gmail… and keeping your apps fresh.
I’ve been looking for some better ways to do things recently. I found two pretty cool apps that make computer life a little simpler.
If I’m anything like you, I’m sure you have one too many email addresses. I recently started looking for a way to consolidate several of them to my gmail address. I’m sure like you too you’ve got that old hotmail address sitting around that you still check every so often. Now if you’ve searched for a solution to forward hotmail easily, there isn’t one. Microsoft does allow you to forward your address to other Microsoft owned sites, but what good is that.
So after a little research I found Mail Forward. It allows me to forward my hotmail address to any address I want. Awesome. You can also forward Yahoo, AOL, MSN addresses among others.
Mail Forward can be found here. There is also a Windows version too located here.
CNet used to have a service called Update. The program scanned registry (yes, it was a Window’s app) and determined what programs you have installed are out of date. Then it provided links for downloads for the updates you needed.
I found a app called AppFresh, that pretty much does the same thing, but for Mac. This lets you know what needs to be updated and will even download and install the updated application for you. It is integrated with iusethis, which is “way for you to organize your applications as well as discover new ones. You can also use it to check if your apps are up-to-date.”
I’d recommend taking a look at AppFresh, though it is in beta, maybe there is another app out there that does this that isn’t in beta.
Let me know what you guys think!
Comments (10 comments)
thanks for the heads up on these apps. I know the email one is gonna come in useful with me, personally.
VittorioCole / March 29th, 2008, 5:54 pm / #
Uhm, can’t you just configure your Hotmail account in Gmail’s account settings, under “Get mail from other accounts” and thus use Gmail Fetcher? This way you wouldn’t have to actually forward.
I’m just asking though, as I’m not entirely sure how Hotmail works, I never used it
The Kerth / April 5th, 2008, 11:08 am / #
thanks for the mail tip, I’ve been looking for something like that for a while. I tried the google fetcher thing but hotmail didn’t seem to want to be a part of it. Same reason it can be a pain trying to add a hotmail account to an iPhone, if anyone has tips on that please let me know. Mine wouldn’t work at all
Thank you
Tim / April 5th, 2008, 6:15 pm / #
I think VersionTracker Pro will check for updates to programs. It will even get them for you, if I recall correctly.
Alex / April 6th, 2008, 11:41 pm / #
@Alex VersionTracker Pro isn’t free though…
Marco / April 8th, 2008, 4:22 pm / #
won’t hotmail disable your account if you don’t check it for 3 months? even if you do forward it, i reccomend checking that out to see if you need to log in every now and then still.
talia / April 24th, 2008, 5:44 pm / #
I just use Opera which, to my knowledge, will handle POP for me.
Greg / May 2nd, 2008, 12:22 am / #
I know this might be a little odd, but would it be easier to just use safari to make your hotmail account into a web-based widget? I have never used and never plan to use hotmail, so I don’t know if this would work.
Tex / May 13th, 2008, 10:58 pm / #
This may finally replace Fetchmail for me. Except then I wouldn’t be able to use my nifty qmail/python scripts for processing some automagically. Maybe they have a plugin for it.
Exegete / May 20th, 2008, 10:38 am / #
i think u can also use windows live email application which allows for multiple email to be accessed at the same time including gmail
Z / May 21st, 2008, 1:37 am / #
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