But this special service has gone THAT famous that Hotmail has decided to make a special application out of it for smartphones, so now you can use this service everywhere by just downloading the “Windows Phone” application for iPhone. Besides Skydrive, this application has many things that Hotmail has to offer though the fact that you can use Skydrive whenever you want is the best thing this new application may have. With this application you have access to a special place called “Office’s Hub”, letting you manage your files inside that drive and even changing your privacy settings about people who can access your Skydrive.

You can also access another section of this application called “Gallery’s Hub”, where you’ll be able to see the pictures you’ve uploaded into your personal virtual disk and share it as faster as possible, in fact, you don’t even need to download it to your phone, you can directly share it to any other place, or see them right from the Skydrive disk.
As you can see with this, Hotmail doesn’t simply stop growing; they’ll keep improving for their users’ sake, until they become the perfect and only messaging system around the globe. Meanwhile they try to do this; you can enjoy the best services they have to offer at this time.

But Halloween is not just a celebration that the real world can celebrate, everything on the web gets ready too, many online games offer special costumes and items that are Halloween-themed, many video clubs offer special offers for Halloween-themed movies, and as well, many websites offers you a “creepy part” of their website for you to enjoy your best screams. Hotmail is not one to be left outside of the celebration, and as well, can give you something really special for you to bring Halloween to every chat session: a special Halloween-themed pack of smileys. Besides being totally free, you can find this special smileys pack inside the website called “Feriademoticones”, a special place where you can find many specials smileys packs, like a Christmas one, Thanksgiving one, even a birthday one, so you have plenty of possibilities to find even 10 packs of Halloween-related smileys. Download it is more than easy, I’m pretty sure you’ll know what to do once you’ve entered the website.

Once you’ve downloaded the special smiley pack, you’ll have to install it into your MSN account, which won’t take more than a few minutes, as simple as that. Now that you’ve this special smiley pack, you can give a creepy moment to some of your friends, or at least get your chatting sessions to a new and more creative level.

Hotmail has great advantages for those users who want to be fully organized, those who love to have everything in place and be able to recover every single bit of information they may have lost. For a single user, this is especially great, but for those who share their hotmail’s account with many other users, there are some cares you must have, like be able to secure your password, or you may even don’t want them to read certain mails.

Of course, you can always delete those mails you don’t want other users to see, but they real problem is this: they can always restore those messages if they want to. Fortunately, Hotmail has some special options now for those who have to share a single account for many other users, and is the ability to deactivate the “restore messages” function. To do this, the first step is to log-in to your hotmail account. Once you’ve successfully logged-in, look for the “options” label on your inbox, click on it and then click on “more options”. A new page will load, and you’ll now have to click on the link named “Advanced privacy settings”, under the “Customizing Hotmail” title.

A new page will load again, and now you must pay attention to the second option, the “deleted messages” one. By clicking on the bottom option you’ll disable the “restore messages” function, and be letting the first option marked, you can restore your messages whenever you want. Once you’ve clicked on the second option, click on “save” button and you’re more than ready.

The best thing about this option is that, if you’ve marked the second option and then saved, all the deleted messages up to that point will be permanently deleted and you won’t be able to restore any of them, even if you select the first option back. Now you can be sure that nobody will check those messages they shouldn’t read, or at least that is not necessary for them to know the content of that mail.

Computers are delicate tools, if you don’t know how to use them properly you can end up downloading a virus that may erase all of your important files in your computer, like family pictures, video, movies, songs you rightfully own, and even legal programs. This is way that if you have important files you cannot lose, you may want to back-up them by burning them in DVDs, CDs or even copy them to Hard Drive Disks or Flash memories.

But there is something maybe harder to back-up, and this is a contact list. If you delete the whole list by yourself you are able to get it back, but if someone else has stolen your account, you may have lost your entire contact list forever and ever, you won’t be able to get it back… or that was in the past. Now Hotmail has many services for you to take advantage, and once of those is to be able to back-up your contact list by exporting it in a special format. Doing this will take seconds, but will save lot of time incase you lose your account, and the first step to back-up your contact list is to log-in to your Hotmail account and head to your Inbox. Now you’ll find a link called “Options” in the right corner, click on it and then click on “more options” in the pop-up menu. A new page will load, showing lots of titles and options below those titles, but you’ll click on “exporting contacts” option under the “customize your contacts” title. Now you can save your back-up, since it’ll automatically start downloading your back-up contact list in .CSV format.

Once the file has finished downloading, you can now be sure that you have a back-up from your contact list in case your hotmail account gets stolen or a virus deletes all of your contacts. Remember to save this file in a safe place to avoid losing or deleting it.

If you’re an experimented user of computers, you may already know the benefits of creating folders in your computer, but for those who are still new you should know that if you want your files to be organized, the best way to do so is by folders, specially if you want to find your files quickly and you forget where you let them. The same comes with mails, especially if you’re not as tidy as you may want and all the mails end up in the Inbox.

Of course, if you’re not the type of user who receives tons of message it won’t probably make a difference when creating folders, you may even not need it, but for those who have jobs that requires partners to send you emails, creating folders will be something more than just important, maybe finding a certain mail with important information will be crucial for you to keep your job and not get fired. Creating folders is easy on computers, and it’s surely easy to do in Hotmail too. You must first log-in to your Hotmail account to do so, and once you’re done with that, head to your Inbox.

Now you can see your mails, and on the left you’ll be able to spot a bar with many “default folders”, such as “Junk”, “Drafts” and “Deleted”. All of those are under and option called “Folders”, and if you click on the gear that is next to the word, more options will pop-up. Those three options will help you to manage your folders, but to create a new one you must click on “Add a new folder”. A new page will load, and now you’ll be able to enter your folders’ name and where to send it (you can create folders inside others folders). Once you’re done, click on “save” and you’ll have your new folder ready to be used.

Now that you know how to keep your Inbox tidy and smart, you’ll be able to organize your mails in an easier way, and find them even easier. Remember that Hotmail has many tools for you to use, make use of every single one if possible.

Now we can even chat with our cellphones thanks to a service known as “eBuddy”, a service that would help you get online even if you didn’t have MSN installed in your computer, which made it the best option for chatting if you were at work and you couldn’t have MSN installed in your computer. Now it is available for phones too, and is even the easiest way to chat in your cellphone thanks to it’s user-friendly interface. All you have to do is select the service you want to use (it can also be used to chat with your Yahoo or Gmail accounts instead of just Hotmail’s one), and insert both your account and passwords. If you don’t have any of the selectable service’s account, you can even create one in the moment and then access to it (even though you may not have any contact, you can always do it if you want to).

If you like chatting, to the point of it being an addiction, you’ll love this new smartphone’s application, and you may even want to download it as soon as possible. Remember not to have both your account and passwords remembered in this application, because if you lose your cellphone you may be in serious problems.

One of those things we can modify are preferences we may have about something, and those are mostly likes and dislikes. To configure this we must first log-in to our Hotmail account, and once we’ve successfully logged-in to Hotmail, we must head to our profile, which link will appear under our name in the top right corner of the page. Once you’ve clicked on it, a new page will load, leading you to your profile. On this page you can change many options, but to change details about your preferences you must click on “Edit Details”, loading a new part of the page. On this you have a big deal pf options you can change to customize your account, like favorite movie, singer, book, among many other things.

Once you’re done changing these preferences, you must click on “save” to finish the process and apply all the changes you’ve made to your profile. Remember that these new-made changes will help you to catch more people’s attention, some that will share the same interests as you do, and you may even find great friends who you can share your hobby with. The friendlier you get in here, the better for getting new friends will be.

Internet can be a big place, a country with no barriers, you don’t know where it starts a place and where one ends. Getting people to know you can be really hard, but with the help of a profile we can always show people how we are, and obviously, show them the information just WE want to show them. Mostly all of the social webs have a profile for each user, and Hotmail is not an exception.
With Windows Live Mail Profile, we can also show people what we want, and configure it is really easy, plus, it has many options most of the sites doesn’t have. To start configuring it you must first log-in to your Hotmail account. Once you’ve successfully done that, look for the “profile” option on the right of the screen and click on it. A new page will load, and if you haven’t configure it before or change anything since you first made your Hotmail account, Hotmail itself will guide you to do it. But if you’ve done it before, you can always change it again by clicking on the “Edit details” options that will let you change things like general info (gender, occupation, place you live, interest, other things), work info (job title, profession, company, work contact information, besides other things) and even change your profile picture, which you may be bored of when time pass by.
Changing your profile’s information is more than an easy task, letting you change even your name and last name. The configuration is up to you to do it, and being creative in this can help you get even more friends or get people to know you without having to chat a lot to accomplish that.

Having unauthorized access to our accounts would be even harder through years goes by, but nowadays we can just create random passwords and security policies to keep our accounts the safer we can, and Hotmail has the best tools for that. The first and best option is to enable the option that would reset our password every 72 days, making it eve hard to figure it out. Also, the Hotmail itself will tell us how safe our password is, indicating it with levels. To do this we must first log-in to our Hotmail account, and once you’ve done that, head to “more options” that will appear when you click on “options”.

After the page has loaded, click on “Account Details” under the “Manage your Account” title. The page may ask you to re-insert you password, but if it doesn’t a new page will load. On this, just head to where it says “password” and click on change. A new page will load again and you’ll be able to configure it as you wish. When you’re done, click on “Save” and you’ll be taken to the previous page. One this one you can also Link your ID of one account to another, just in case you don’t want to log-in and out many times to check your mails.
By configuring this options a bit you can make a really safe account, or accounts, and prevent your personal information to be lost. It’s just up to you to configure it as you please.