Chances are you've used email once or twice in your life. Until now, your primary method of retrieving mail might have been a web client. That's a perfectly acceptable, if not thoroughly boring, solution. Might we then suggest the raw power of the Mail client.

When you first set up your Android phone, you would have been asked to add a Google account. However, some people have more than one Google account. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to

add multiple Google accounts to your Android

phone and configure your

sync settings

for each.

The

HP TouchPad

has a number of settings that you can change to customize it to your liking. In this episode, we'll walk you through your options. From your various

accounts and applications

to

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections

, almost everything has settings that can be changed if needed.

After entering your

Windows Live ID

during your

Windows Phone 7 setup

, your device will have your associated

email accounts

ready. In this episode, we'll show you how to

add an alternate email account

, like a Gmail or work email account, to your

WP7 phone

.

If you want to

use Hotmail, Messenger and Xbox Live

from your

HTC HD7 phone

, then you'll need to

set up Windows Live

. We'll show you how to

set up a Windows Live ID

on your

Windows Phone 7

device in this episode.

These days, most people have

multiple email addresses

so it only makes sense that you'd be able to

add multiple email accounts to your iPhone

. In this episode, we'll show you how to do just that and show you how to

manage your various email accounts

from your iPhone. It's a pretty simple process that makes

keeping up with your email accounts

a piece of cake.

Now that you've added your

social networking accounts to Hootsuite

, you should know that you can

organize the order that your feeds appear

. If you want your

Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare

account to be shown at the top, we'll show you how to do that. We'll also show you how to

reorganize the feeds

within these services so that you can quickly see the information that's most important to you.

With

Hootsuite installed on your iPhone

, it's easy to

keep track of your social networks

. However, before you can do that you'll first need to

add social networks to Hootsuite

through the settings menu. It's an easy process that we'll walk you through in this episode so that, once you're done, you'll be able to

manage your Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare accounts

quickly and easily.

By default, your

Android phone

can synchronize itself with your various

online accounts

. These include the ability to

sync with your email

,

Facebook

,

Twitter

and more. We'll show you

how to sync your Android phone

with your various accounts and

how to manage your accounts

using your Android phone

.

Google Buzz

was formerly only available through

Gmail

as Google's answer to Twitter. Now the

social networking service

is available as an app for the

Android phone

.

Using Google Buzz

, you can update your Google Buzz while on the go. It's a

free download

, so check it out!

Keeping your profile current

is important in all

social networking services

. Just like with Twitter and Facebook, you can

change your foursquare profile

whenever you want. Here we'll show you how to

change your account details

including your location, email and so on.

As you might expect, Photobucket has several settings that you can change in your account. You can

change your personal information

, your password and your album settings. Your

album settings

will allow you to change how many thumbnails display per page, whether your album is private, whether the images link back to the album and more. Follow along to see how you can change your

account settings in Photobucket

!

Photobucket is a website where you can

post and share photos

with other users. It's a pretty active online community with Basic Photobucket accounts are free so we'll show you how to get started by

creating a Photobucket account

. It's easy and shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes, so you'll be sharing photos in no time!

You've probably been in a situation where you needed to check your email while away from your home or office. Once or twice you might even have forgotten to log out after you did so. For the forgetful ones out there or for those who want more control over their email account, here's

how to use remote logout in Gmail

, a handy way to see what

computers are accessing your email

... and how you can log them out.

While Skype is free to users who just want to communicate with fellow Skype users, it can also be used to contact regular phones as well. But to

use Skype to call someone who doesn't have Skype

, you'll need Skype credits. We'll show you

how to buy and use Skype credits

as well as how to set up a number people can call you on from standard phones!

The Accounts tab in Quicken Online allows you to see all of your money coming in, all of the money going out, see if a check was cashed or, heaven forbid, bounced. You can even categorize your transactions to allow Quicken Online's smarts to learn from you and automatically categorize transactions in the future.

Thunderbird is a powerful email client. However, like it's brother Firefox, Thunderbird has a user community creating tons of great add-ons to enhance Thunderbird's functionality. Doc shows us where to

find add-ons for Thunderbird

and how to install them.

E-mail privacy is important to you... and if it's not, it probably should be. Think about all the private and personal information that's sent through email. Think too that an email is considered to be as good as a signature in an increasing number of situations and jurisdictions and email security becomes that much more important. Thunderbird protects your email security and privacy by putting you in control.

Spam or other junk mail

is the bane of e-mail users everywhere. It seems that spammers never tire of trying to find new ways to infiltrate your inbox. Thunderbird quickly learns what is and what is not spam to make sure you're not bothered by as much of this email annoyance.

The Thunderbird address book is where you'll keep all your online and offline contacts organized. If you're making the

switch to Thunderbird

from Outlook, Eudora or another email client you can easily

import your contacts and even your mail and settings

from said email client.

Even when you keep your inbox organized with folders, things sometimes go missing. You know you got an email about an upcoming project, but you can't seem to find it.

Searching email in Thunderbird

is a quick way to

recover a lost email

; if you remember a few words, you can punch them into the search box and quickly

find that missing email

.

Folders are a simple way to

organize your inbox

. You can keep all your work emails straight, your personal emails sorted and your other emails organized. Thunderbird offers a variety of folder options that make it easy to

take control of your inbox

and

keep your email inbox organized

.

Whether you get a little bit of email or a lot it helps to have it organized using a good system. Thunderbird makes it easy to tag and filter your email. This way, you can

keep your inbox organized

and

filter email in Thunderbird

.

Chances are, you have

multiple email addresses

. One for personal, one given to you by the office, one for social networking, perhaps one that's just for family and close friends. Thunderbird makes it easy to set up and manage multiple email accounts. You can even easily set up your free email accounts like Hotmail, Yahoo! and

Gmail in Thunderbird

. Here's how.

Whether you get a little bit of email or a lot it helps to have it organized using a good system. Thunderbird is an email client from the Mozilla Foundation, the same folks that produce Firefox. It's loaded with cool features to help you do email with as little fuss as possible. This 10-part series will cover some of the basics.

Entering a username and password every time you

start Windows XP

can seem like a waste of time, especially if you're the only one who uses your computer. We'll show you

how to disable the Windows XP login screen

so you'll

go straight to your Windows desktop upon starting your computer

.

We've all run into

CAPTCHAs

: those sometimes annoying, sometimes hard to decipher strings of characters and numbers that appear online. They have to be punched in exactly as they appear when signing up for a free email account, posting a comment in a public forum and so on. But what are they and what purpose do they serve? Stacy Reed explains.

One complaint some users have about Twitter is that you have to visit the Twitter web site to use the service. Well, it doesn't have to be that way if you just look around at the programs available for using Twitter from your desktop. Seesmic Desktop is a great solution for using Twitter from your Mac or your PC. It lets you do @ replies, send TwitPics and much more.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia where anyone can be an author. Did you know that there are over 7,500 different varieties of tomatoes? Well someone did, and they added that fact to the Wikipedia page about tomatoes. There are thousands of Wikipedia pages written about any topic you can think of and they can be changed for correctness as well as updated to include up to date facts. Wikipedia is a place for you to share your knowledge and a place for you to learn something from all of the fascinating articles already published to the site.

Now that you've signed up for your Flickr account, it's time to get personal. Choose an image to upload and use as your buddy icon, select your own personal Flickr URL to share with family and friends and input as many or as few personal details as you'd like to share with the Flickr community at large.

You can find just about anything you're looking for on eBay. New or used, the latest digital camera or an elusive collectible, if it's out there, chances are it's on eBay. Whether you're looking to buy or sell, eBay is a great place to start.

Chances are, you have more than one email address you need to check regularly. Following our introduction to Gmail tutorial series, it's clear that Gmail is a good way to manage your email workflow. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to send and receive email from all of your various accounts within Gmail?
Wish granted...

Miss Download looks at a way to manage the annoyance factor of Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC). With this software tweak, we can suppress the number of "Are you sure you want to do this?" prompts that Windows Vista throws up, turn off the UAC feature entirely (not recommended) or choose to leave it on. Now, when we're working with Windows Vista, we won't be distracted with those annoying UAC pop up "are you sure you want to do what you just said you wanted to do?" windows... as often.

UPDATE: Facebook has begun rolling out new and simplified privacy settings for some users. Many of the tips in this series still directly apply however.

Facebook

is a great social networking tool that keeps you in contact with your friends and family. However, it also raises certain

privacy concerns

that make many people wonder about the

privacy of their photos, videos

and other content. Fortunately Facebook has lots of

privacy settings

that you can change to your liking. They are easy to change but often hard to find. In this 10-part tutorial series we'll show you how to

safeguard your Facebook account

by changing your privacy settings!

Quicken Online is a free service that lets you track multiple bank accounts, credit cards, loans and lines of credit. With email alerts and even an iPhone app, you can

create a household budget online

and check your money in against money out.

Set savings goals

,

monitor expenses

and just generally

create a budget you can stick with

. It's easier than ever with

Quicken Online

.