Outlook Express was discontinued in 2005. Windows Mail started with the
source code of Outlook Express, so you could consider Windows Mail to be
Outlook Express 7. Ditto for Windows Live Mail, which replaced Windows
Mail. The feature set between Outlook Express and the current Windows
Live Mail is pretty significant. I don't think it's unreasonable for a
company to update their program over the span of eight years. There are
a lot of reasons to bash MS, but I don't think Outlook Express is an
example of MS changing something just to change something. I think the
criticism of MS and Outlook Express has more to do with the fact that
Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail were just different and less
accessible than the fact that Outlook Express was perfect and didn't
need enhancing.
On 07/30/2013 04:22 PM, Alan Lemly wrote:
Sherry, I would strongly recommend that you get a personal email account
with gmail provided you're not too established with your AT&T one. Gmail
works great with the various email clients like Outlook and I assume
Thunderbird. You will need to set up a Google account which can be done
here:
https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?service=mail&hl=en_us&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fpc%3Den-ha-na-us-bk&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha
That's the first step to get a gmail account. Once you have one, they
have a help link where you can search on setting the account up with
whichever email client you end up using, Thunderbird or Windows Live
mail. That's just another example of Microsoft changing something that a
lot of folks are still wondering why it was necessary. I thought Outlook
Express was fine based on comments I've read by those who used and
mastered it.
Good luck with your email decisions. I'm enjoying The Kitchen House.
Alan
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*From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *Sieghard Weitzel
*Sent:* Friday, July 26, 2013 1:40 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: Skype App Settings for Camera
Hi Alan,
I am surprised that the call was using the rear camera and I wonder if
you accidently switched it without noticing. I am saying this because
unless something changed in the last update, Skype always seemed to
default to the front camera.
Anyhow, it is very easy to change it from front to rear or vice versa or
even to turn the camera off or, to turn it on if you start out as a
voice call. Here is what you do:
Once the call is connected to another Skype user, you have the End Call
button across the bottom just above the home key.
Just above the End Call button is a row of 4 buttons, you can explore by
sliding your finger up just a bit from End Call or just find End Call
and then swipe left. The buttons from left to right are:
Video Call, Mute, Earpiece, Show Options
If you swipe left from the End Call button, you will of course get to
“Show Options” first, then Earpiece which, if you have a headset
connected will say “Headset”, then swipe left again to get to Mute and
finally to “Video”. If you swipe left one more time you get to the call
duration timer.
Now, once you find “Video” double tap on it. This will invoke another
small menu with 3 items just above that row of buttons and approx. in
the middle of the screen. These are arranged one on top of the other
just as I put it below:
Front Camera
Back Camera
No Camera
Once again, you can find these by putting your finger in the middle of
the screen and exploring or you can swipe left from “Video” which means
you first get to “No Camera”, then you get to “Back Camera” and finally
to “Front Camera”. Swipe left again and you once again get to the call
timer.
Now all you have to do is find which camera option you want and double
tap on it. Once you do the menu with the camera choices goes away, if
you switched to the Back camera and want the front camera or turn off
the camera, then you have to first double tap on Video again to bring up
the camera choices.
Regards,
Sieghard
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *Alan Lemly
*Sent:* Friday, July 26, 2013 10:06 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Skype App Settings for Camera
I participated in my first Skype Video call yesterday and have questions
about how to configure Skype for future video calls. On the call
yesterday, the person on the other end was getting a picture from my
iPhone 5 rear camera. It seems odd that the default would not be to send
the front camera to the other person since I will obviously be looking
at my screen to see the other party. I scoured the app for settings to
change this but could not find anywhere to do that. I also checked the
Skype settings under the iPhone main settings but there was very little
that was set there.
Can anyone give me some guidance on how to configure the Skype camera
settings for future video calls?
Thanks in advance.
Alan Lemly
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