Friday, April 14, 2006

Finally!! My email accounts in one window!

Ok, so I have 4 email accounts: work, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail. Yes, I use them all:


  • Work Outlook: I use this account for work-related emails (duh). I never use this account for personal use (and I suggest you do the same with yours...big brother is always watching)
  • Hotmail: I use this account for registration on low-risk sites (by low-risk, I'm referring to the risk of getting any spam.....phone company, mobile carrier, etc, etc...basically, for any company that I might actually want an occasional spam from)
  • Yahoo: I use this account for high-risk registration (beta sites, coupons, etc, etc...anything that I know I'll get spammed on)
  • Gmail: Personal emails between known recipients.

It's taken a while for me to devise a way to access all of these accounts from one page, but here goes:



Pageflakes + BittyBrowser = one stop shopping for all my email accounts!! I used the following URLS for each of the accounts:

Hotmail: http://mobile.msn.com/hm/folder.aspx

Gmail: http://m.gmail.com For some reason, this URL does not work with IE, but DOES play nicely with Firefox (which I use on my personal machine). Because I use IE on my work laptop, I've also included the Gmail Flake that's available with PageFlakes. The screen shot above uses the plain HTML version of Gmail (login to Gmail, switch it over to the basic HTML view, and use that URL), which I don't use anymore.

Yahoo: http://wap.oa.yahoo.com/?dp=mail

Outlook: Open your outlook in a browser. Then determine the URL for the mail frame (easily done with Forefox). Obviously, this URL will be different for every corporation.

Have fun!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Howdy, this is Scott from Bitty Browser -- I thought you might be interested to know that GMail has a small-screen site at http://m.gmail.com (oddly, that URL doesn't always work in IE, but seems ok in Firefox).

-Scott

The Hag Bag said...

I tried it in IE, and it didn't work, so I just assumed that it wouldn't work elsewhere. Well, I was wrong...it works great in Bitty! Thanks, Scott! Great little tool!

Christoph Janz said...

Great idea! :-)

Anonymous said...

This is a super cool idea.

Patterson said...

Have you tried out the Google Calendar yet? You can literally type in "Guiness Fest with Jeremy next Wed at 5:30" and it will recognize the time & date & add an entry to your calendar. Pretty sick AJX app.

http://calendar.google.com

Tim said...

Thanks for the great advice on how to get more out of Page Flakes.

- Tim

Anonymous said...

I have been looking to do this for months, thanks! Does anyone no if this plays nice with the browers Maxthon?

BReid