Tired of darting across the web to keep track of all those email accounts and social networking updates? It's time to pull together your life online, and you can do it with Hotmail.
So you've got Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter, and Hotmail of course. That's a lot of addresses to check on every day, but using your Hotmail account, you can bring it all into one place – that's one inbox and one password for all your email accounts and updates from a whole lot of social networks.
How do I set it up?
Once you've logged into Hotmail, just click on the "Add an e-mail account" link below your folder list. For most accounts, all you'll need is your e-mail address and password.
Next, you'll be prompted to add the account details, meaning that it's time to enter the address and password of the account you wish to retrieve mail via Hotmail.
Finally, you get to choose the options you want to set for the mail you're retrieving from other accounts. Depending on what you'd prefer, you can set up a separate folder to store e-mails from your other accounts, or just view your outside mail straight in your Hotmail inbox.
That's that really. Now that you're receiving all your emails in one inbox, click here to find out how to set up your Web Activities to bring together the updates from all your social networks and services into Windows Live.
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