How to connect your Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Flickr to Outlook.com

Outlook.com is the new Hotmail and the team have been leaving no stone upturned to get on with it. They have done an AMA on Reddit which we have already covered here. There is a lot of news on the internet regarding the service and it seems they have learned a lot of lessons from other services and launched this new email App which works amazingly. They did however make of ads in Gmail when you login to Outlook.com however they also have ads on the right sidebar. 


If you have decided to try the service one of the things you notice is that you can connect you Social Networks to the service and get everything you love in one place. Outlook.com seeks to work like a one-stop-social-network-shop, used the word shop there to use the age-old adage in a fun way. Anyways   once you login to Outlook.com you can easily connect your Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Flickr accounts to the service. Once connected you get all your favorite social networks in one place and you can start interacting from right within Outlook.com


How to add or connect social networks to Outlook.com
1. Login to Outlook.com
2. Click on the upside down smiley face on the top-right-hand corner

3. At the bottom you see 'Add' click on that

4. Now select the service you want to add - go through the authentication steps. 

5. You're done

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Outlook.com is the new Hotmail - 3 questions answered by the team

The guys from the Microsoft who created Outlook.com and brought it to the web took to Reddit to answer questions from users. Hotmail will be fading away and in its place is Outlook.com. The team wants Outlook.com to become the popular destination on the web for people who want to use email service. The proposition is a tough one since many people who still keep a Hotmail ID do so only as a secondary one, most have switched to Gmail. There is also an outlook preview if you are interested. The argument that the team tries to make is that all other email services have not become old - Gmail they say is now 8 years old and it's time for something new. There is also a Outlook preview to learn more. 


Please find below some of the features that the Outlook team have highlighted

have a modern, fast UI
be connected to your networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, and soon, Skype)
have smart tools to manage and filter messages
prioritize your privacy (we don't serve ads based on the contents of your email)


These are three questions that the team answered on their main write-up on Reddit
1. Why to switch from Gmail
They have said that Gmail is now 8 years old and something new is needed. They highlight that Outlook.com is directly connected with Facebook and Twitter has a cleaner UI, and as a afterthought - Outlook does not scan your emails to show you Ads. That was a direct hit at Google's Gmail service which shows ads based on users interests. 
2. How to switch from Gmail to Outlook
If you are interested and would like to try the new Outlook with your Gmail contacts. Complete instructions are available here. Once your done with your preview you can always switch back.
3. How to rename a current Windows Live or Hotmail account:
You can upgrade your Windows live account to the new Outlook service and detailed instructions can be found here. 


Please leave feedback in the comments section below with what you think. Will the service takeoff - it just might because Outlook is so popular in the corporate world and Outlook is synonymous with email.
Outlook.com you can read the complete IAMA on Reddit here

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How to empty your Hotmail Inbox

If you are one of those people who have your Hotmail Inbox crammed with thousands of mail and are looking for a way to delete it, there is a simple way. Many users these days use multiple email account and unfortunately Hotmail does not provide you with one easy way to delete your Inbox completely. In Gmail this is just a two step process and you can empty your Inbox.


How to delete your Hotmail Inbox. If you do not have access to Outlook


1. Login to Hotmail (you will be directed to live.mail.com)
2. Once your in your Inbox you can use shortcut keys
3. First press 's' and then 'a' and click delete.
4. You need to keep repeating this however for each page but it should work fast.


How to empty your Hotmail inbox using Outlook


1. Open Outlook on your PC or any other mail client
2. Create a new account
3. Enter your Hotmail address
4. Click on setup
5. Once setup is complete select all the mails in your Inbox (ctrl+a)
6. Hit the delete button
7. Your mails get transfered to the delete folder
8. Select this folder and then click "empty deleted items folder"
9. Your Done

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