Mother’s Day Gift ideas and a Tech Tip!

Mothers Day is May 11.  Be sure to check out our “Gifts for Mom” category on the home page for some great gift ideas.  We are going to be adding a few more in the next week, so check back.  When you buy any product through Dadsworld.com, you are helping to support the site.  That includes our great shirts, books, electronics, toys, outdoor gear, stickers, etc.  So feel free to shop often at Dadsworld.com!

I read a technical tip recently in Popular Science magazine about syncing between different email accounts.  Many of us have this problem.  You have Microsoft Outlook at work, a different email program at home, and a smartphone in your pocket, all with independent inboxes and outboxes.  Ideally, all of your devices should communicate, so that when you receive or reply to a message on one, it’s reflected on all of them.  But they don’t do that.  There is a simple solution. Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and it allows for 2-way communication between your email accounts and your PC’s.  That means whatever program or computer you use to access your email, you’ll always see the same thing.  There are several ways to set it up, but the easiest is to use Gmail, Google’s free email service, which recently added IMAP support.  Gmail can pull messages from most existing email accounts, so you can just route everything to one inbox.  Just open a new account at mail.google.com, and enable the IMAP setting.  You can even create a custom “from” address so that outbound mail will appear to come from any domain you choose (e.g., john@johndoe.com), rather than from your Gmail address.  It’s also FREE!

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