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I’ve always preferred to access email through my ISP’s webmail service, rather than through an email client like Outlook Express or Thunderbird. The main reason for this preference is convenience, in that I can access my email from any computer that has Internet access.

I also like to keep my messages organized, so over time I’ve created several webmail folders and distributed messages amongst them.

Now the time has come where I would like to backup my webmail to my local computer.

Although I trust that my email data is safer from hardware failure residing in my ISP’s data center, there’s always a chance that data corruption could occur or that my account could be accidentally deleted.

After some research, I discovered that there’s no easy solution to synchronizing webmail folders to your computer. The best solution I found is slightly tedious.

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In this post you will learn how to create, customize, and implement a custom Google search box in your Wordpress sidebar.

Building your own custom Google search box allows you to harness the power of Google’s search technology and apply it to your own blog. You’ll notice my custom search box positioned there at the top right of my site. Go ahead and give it a whirl to see how it works. You’ll notice that the results returned by Google are specific to only my domain and formatted to match the colors of my theme. The layout and coloring can be adjusted to match your blog, as you’ll see in the step-by-step guide below.

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Want to add a button to your sidebar that links to your Twitter feed? This post will show you how to find, customize, and place a Twitter icon on your Wordpress sidebar.

Step 1: Find an icon

Here are a few links to sites that provide various Twitter icons:

Twitter Icon Factory
100 Remarkable Twitter Icons
Search Google Images

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