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Last December, Google launched a website that featured a series of how-to videos, teaching parents that are not computer savvy. I know is a bit late to post this, but is never too late to learn, right? See below for the promotional video. Click this sentence to view all the videos! VIA Engadget

Have you had trouble viewing emails saved in mbox extension? The easy way is to convert the mbox files to eml files, since eml is a widely used file format and Outlook could open it. (I am using Microsoft Outlook 2010 as my email client, maybe there are other simpler options.) Although IMAPSize is mainly a IMAP mail accounts manager, it contains a very useful tool that converts mbox files to eml files and vice versa. It also maintains the folder hierarchy by recognizing dots as folder separators. Another way of viewing mbox mails is using MailStore Home . Basically, it archives your emails to a local directory, and let you view the emails. Besides eml and mbox file extensions, MailStore Home directly archives emails from Outlook, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, and Google Mail, to name a few. Comparing to IMAPSize, MailStore Home does not maintain the folder hierarchy while archiving mbox files, i.e. you have to move the emails to manually-created sub-folders. Why did I mention MailStor

I had heard about Dropbox for some time ago, but never really think that I will be using it one day. Dropbox creates a special folder in your computer that synchronize its content to the web, another computer that has Dropbox installed, and even mobile phones. Currently, Dropbox is offering 2GB of online storage for free. What makes me use Dropbox out of the sudden? Well, I want to transfer a large file to my friend. Email attachments have size limitation and Windows Live Messenger file transfer is just plain slow. A P2P connection might be slower than a direct connection to the internet. So, I decided to upload it to some sort of online storage and let my friend download it later. (For each file uploaded, Dropbox provides a web link for it.) Dropbox is more than just a normal file transfer method, I read about people using it as a music folder that get synchronized across different devices and a photo sharing folder for friends and family. Extend those possibilities yourself, give

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