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Well, If you had the same good luck as I did today, you may have noticed that Hotmail in Outlook has stopped working. It has been great to me for well over 8 years now, but Microsoft has decided to make a change. Well,  Everything was fine this morning. I opened up Outlook at 2:00 PM CST and get this nice message… “Sending’ reported error (0x800CCC33) : ‘Access to the account was denied. Verify that your username and password are correct.The server responded ‘Forbidden’. ‘” I have checked all my account information, and passwords etc, but still no luck!  Logging in to the web mail works fine though…

Well, I did some digging and was able to regain access back to Hotmail and Outlook. You need to install and update to using Microsoft Office Outlook Connector. At this writing it seems to only works with Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007. I am sure that will change though.

1. Download Microsoft Office Outlook Connector and then install it.

2. Start up Microsoft Outlook-enter your Hotmail email address, password and name that you want to appear in the receiver’s inbox.

3. Left panel a new folder with your hotmail email address will appear. Simply click on Send/Receive button to start downloading all your emails from Hotmail to Outlook.

I hope this helps. Remember, we can only go forward.!!

Recently there has been a lot of issue with Tweeter and even Facebook and those pesky shorten urls. You have seen them those links like http://tinyurl.com/something. These were created to help those posting on tweeter, because of the 160 or so character restrictions. This allows you to post a link to a site that was long without eating up the word limit. This also masked the end URL. Well of course hackers and all type of unscrupulous people started to take advantage of this. Well do I have a fix for you. For two easy payments of 9.99, you will get all of this..Bob take it away. No really, If you have Firefox you can simply add in a new add-on extension. I have been personally using these URL un-shorteners.  You simply install it, then move your mouse over the link and it expands it for you. You can even click on the expanded link directly. Now, this will not stop you for clicking the link, but at least you can see where the end point is. From there you can use your best judgment on whether to actually go there.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13140, DeTiny URL Expander 1.2.1

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10181, UntinyFox 2.0

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10297, bit.ly preview 1.264