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This fun application that you already know as a feature from your GMX Mail if you have an account account is now available on Facebook lets you express how you're really feeling by posting a Live Emoticon to your profile. You don´t even need a webcam.
The Germany-based GMX Webmail email service claims more 10,000,000 satisfied users, of which this writer has been one for better than a decade. I signed up for a German language GMX account back in the late '90s, and it's been a reliable mainstay ever since working flawlessly, extremely dependable with no downtime that I can recall over the years, and with very efficient spam filtering too. I have enough German (although I'm nowhere near fluent) to get along on the GMX Website for account configuration and management.
However, last year GMX made its free email service availiable worldwide in localized versions. offering 5 GB of email storage space for free.
GMX offers a wide choice of free addresses ending in @gmx.com, @gmx.us or @gmx.co.uk, and if you're not sure you've found the perfect name, GMX allows you at any time to add up to 10 free e-mail addresses which all forward to your mailbox, so you can switch to GMX for the extra space and and keep using your other email addresses.
The GMX Mail Collector feature takes all messages from your existing accounts to be collected and sorted into separate folders in your GMX mailbox, all inspected by GMX's professional virus protection and spam protection tools.
GMX Mail's interface is cross-platform compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X with official support for Internet Explorer or Firefox, although I find it works OK with most browsers.
To manage your emails using GMX's Drag & Drop functionality, simply create a folder, give it a name, and populate it with as many e-mails as you'd like. If you're searching for a specific e-mail, GMX's intelligent search function helps you find what you're looking for quickly.
Emails sent via GMX can have formatted text, photos or emoticons, and even personalized backgrounds.
GMX Mail supports attachments up to 50 MB, is which enough capacity to send an hour's worth of MP3s, or 50 high resolution digital photos. If you want you can also access your GMX mailbox with POP3 mail programs and/or IMAP clients.
GMX's email accounts are hosted in high security data centers with redundant systems, which means all of your mails and storage data are secured automatically in several different locations.
GMX Mail also applies seven sophisticated anti-spam modules which work hand-in-hand to provide a nearly leak-proof spam barrier. You don't need to configure anything. The modules Header Analyzer, Spam Server Blocker, GMX Anti-Spam List and Global Anti-Spam List automatically do their job.
Moreover, you get your personal Black- and Whitelist so you can adapt your Spam Protection to suit your personal needs.
GMX's Text Pattern Profiler module over time learns to successfully identify unwanted e-mails and diverts them accordingly.
GMX provides users with confidence when dealing with file attachments. Every email in the system is automatically inspected for viruses, Trojans and other malware. This also applies to emails retrieved from your other email accounts via Mail Collector service.
GMX applies the best anti-virus products from partners McAfee and Symantec, software also used by financial institutions and the military. And that‚ is serious security.
GMX File Storage Offers a Multitude of Functions
• Store data online:
1 GB for text, images, music, videos, and all file types (an ideal backup medium)
• Storage in our high security data center, access via secure SSL connection (the standard for online banking)
• Accessible from any computer connected to the Internet after logging in to your GMX mail account.
• Integration on your desktop as a virtual hard drive with its own hard drive letter, for example in Windows (optionally with MacOS, Linux).
• Send an e-mail to invite friends to your GMX File Storage:
Share folders for a predefined time span or without any time limit
Full control over who can see which contents for how long
The GMX Address Book Offers Many Functions
• Manage a large number of contact details: e-mail addresses, name, nicknames, birthdate, picture, telephone (including fax, cell phone and VoIP numbers), instant messaging, homepage and other information
• Separate private and business contacts
• Find contacts fast with a practical Search function
• Easy to use with other GMX Mail applications
• Assign to groups with Drag & Drop:
• Default groups, such as "Friends", "Family", "Colleagues"
• Customized groups, such as "Sports"
• Import and export function compatible with other digital address books:
• CSV file (supported by most applications)
• Standard format vcard (.vcf)
The GMX Organizer Offers a Multitude of Functions
• Quick and easy planning:
• Browse by day, month, or year
• Set up events quickly and easily
• Move events fast via Drag & Drop
• Activate reminder function for important events
• Print events in different formats
• Invite people to events via e-mail regardless if they are GMX customers or not
• Guests can reply via invitation mail
• Time zone support
• Message function between guest and person organizing the event
• Import events from other digital calendars (Microsoft Outlook, Google‚) using CSV or iCal (ics) formats.
For more information, or to sign up for an account, visit:
http://mail-us.gmx.com/
To use the GMX Live Emoticon Application, proceed with three simple steps:
1. Pick an Emoticon
Happy, sad, busy, excited? GMX have a huge number of different emoticons for you. Pick the one that best describes your mood from the list by moving forward and backward.
2. Choose a Picture of Yourself
Next, pick a picture. You may use your current profile picture, take a new picture with your webcam, or upload an image from your desktop. Then adjust the image's size and rotate it, if necessary, to fit it into position. Finally, click Post.
3. Post Your Live Emoticon
Let your friends know how you feel and post your newly created Live Emoticon to your wall! Add a message if you like and click Publish.
For more information, visit:
http://apps.facebook.com/liveemoticons/
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