January 6th, 2009:

Are you looking for a free email service that provides you not only with basic email features, but cute customization options as well? If you are, then you probably should check out IncrediMail, the free advertising-supported email client for Microsoft Windows. Here are some of the cool features of IncrediMail.

* Email notifiers

Do you want to be notified every time you receive an email? If you do, then you will surely love IncrediMail’s collection of animated email notifiers. You can choose from a variety of animated characters that include everything from a fairy and a butler to a penguin and a goldfish.

* Cute emoticons

Like most email services, IncrediMail also has its own collection of emoticons. The thing that separates IncrediMail emoticons from the others, however, is their size. IncrediMail emoticons are almost three times bigger than ordinary emoticons. Now, you can clearly view the emoticons without interchanging the emotional content that they convey.

* Animated images

Emoticons are not the only animated objects that you can add in your IncrediMail messages. In fact, IncrediMail has a huge library of lively animations that you can use to spruce up your emails. Add more life and color to your emails by inserting animated images like a pogo stick-riding hippopotamus or a wave-surfing tiger.

* 3D objects

Another incredible email feature from IncrediMail is the email service’s collection of 3D objects. To add more fun and excitement to your emails, you can customize them into cute 3D objects like flying helicopters, sailing boats, or twisting Rubik’s cubes. You can add the 3D effects to your messages every time you send, receive, or even delete them.

The incoming freshmen enrolled at Boston College will not receive the same email services as the older students did. The officials of the college have decided to stop giving out new email accounts to all incoming students.

Incorporating email addresses to existing accounts

Instead of providing new email accounts with logins and inboxes, the officials at Boston College will only provide the incoming freshmen class of 2009 with a new email address. The new email address, which is in the namesurname@bc.edu format, will be incorporated with the students’ pre-existing email accounts. The college-issued emails, therefore, will be directly forwarded to the personal email accounts that the students specified in their college application forms. So, whether they are using Gmail or Yahoo! Mail or any other email service, the incoming freshmen students of Boston College can expect all their school-related emails in their own inboxes.

Establishing digital identities before entering college

The reason for the college officials’ decision to stop giving out new email accounts to incoming freshmen is the fact that many students have already established their own digital identities before enrolling for college. Many students today, after all, have been email experts since their elementary days. What’s the point in providing them with yet another email account to manage? Besides, it’s not like the students are actually using their Boston College email account for anything other than reading email alerts from the school.

According to Mary Corcoran, the associate vice president for user and support services at Boston College, students also have the tendency to use their Boston College email accounts only because they are required to. “Students weren’t really using the Boston College accounts as much as we would like them to,” she said.