My brother-in-law asks me "if I buy a laptop for use at the cottage, can I access my computer at home to read my email?" Not having a cottage or a laptop, I'm not sure. Your brother-in-law is asking an increasingly common question. With connectivity nearly ubiquitous, and people relying heavily on email it's not at all uncommon to want to access your email from someplace other than your desktop at home. The question is: how? Webmail Always Accessing your email via a web interface is perhaps the easiest solution by far. If you already use webmail exclusively, then you're done. Just login to your webmail account from wherever you happen to have a computer and an internet connection. That's pretty darned convenient, but there are downsides. For one, it's webmail ... no internet connection, no email at all; you can't even work on... [read full story]
