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I installed Thunderbird so that I could check my personal email, Hotmail and Yahoo! mails all together. To enable Hotmail and Yahoo, you MUST install the ‘webmail’ add-on for the ‘hotmail’ and ‘yahoo’ extensions to work. Here is the link to get these add-ons.

http://webmail.mozdev.org/installation.html

After that while configuring accounts you must select WebMail and then proceed to create the Hotmail or Yahoo accounts. While doing that you MUST write @hotmail.com OR @yahoo.com. Which means yourname@hotmail.com OR yourname@yahoo.com.

After doing that, Yahoo may get configured without any issues, but Hotmail, being a Microsoft property, needs a bit more cajoling. If Yahoo is Betty, then Hotmail is Veronica. Sad joke, lets get on with the solution. After Googling a bit, I found a post that suggested at looking at the LAST comment on this page

http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2005/Apr/09/thunderbird_webmail_extension.html#c5733

I looked at that and all it said was try and update the add-on by clicking the Update button found after accessing Tools>Addons. I did that but didnt work, but what I did notice was the ‘Options’ button that gets activated on selecting the Hotmail Addon. When you click this Options button, it gives you an option to choose between Hotmail or Hotmail Live!(New website) I selected Hotmail Live and that was it!

Now all the email accounts are right here and I dont have to wait for Hotmail, Yahoo or RediffMailPro to load up their stupid ads before I get to my messages.

Update: All kinds of mail can now be accessed simply using Gmail. Just go to Settings and specify your Hotmail, Yahoo or any other mail(including POP 3) and get all of it inside Gmail!

My new machine is finally here. Now I have 2 machines to work on! One dedicated for graphics and the other for programming(web), music, bluetooth and internet. I alway wanted to separate the graphics from all the other functions on the computer.

Anyway this new machne is a Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz which is basically 40% faster and more efficient than regular machines. My other machine is a P4 3 GHz HT which is 30% faster than not HT P4 machines. Anyway I posted a question on Yahoo Answers regarding which is better and here is what I got:

• Core 2 Duo, especially for graphics. The P4 may be faster but raw GHz speed doesn’t always make the difference. I’d put my money on Core 2. It’s like 64 bit computing, a 32 bit processor might be faster in GHz speed but a 64bit CPU at a lower clock rate can get more done in a single strike. It’s like an athletic runner’s heart beat vs. a non athletic person’s heart beat. The non athletic runner’s heart will beat faster but the athlete’s heart pumps more blood per stroke or beat making him faster, (more blood gets to the muscles per shot making him/her run faster and longer.)
• Depends on what you want to do – the P4 has more raw horsepower – but overall the Core 2 Duo will function much faster, particularly in something like graphics rendering.
  If you want a real serious comparison, go to www.tomshardware.com
  The do detailed comparisons of CPUs as well as Motherboards, Graphics and just about everything else there is that’s PC related.
• if P4 is HT enabled…. both are somewhat simillar…. but in terms of processor heat… Core 2 Duo wins…. well depending upon the graphics oriented work that you do i feel you will need more processor usage… so P4 may annoy you if the processor fan keeps running most of the time…. but again P4 will be cheaper.
  Choose judiciously… if bucks are not a problem go for Core 2 Duo with even higher frequency.
• yes….in everything except single threading encoding jobs
  i would recommend amd for graphics though…..much better price for performance

• Yes, because it’s really two processors, so it’s way faster than a Pentium 4. And it’s more efficient. The only bad thing is that it’s more expensive.

So thats a little lowdown on the topic from ‘people’ and not some experts most of whom are biased ‘for’ or ‘against’ something!