Fuser is a free web based tool that allows you to check all your email accounts and social networking accounts at one place. Now you don’t have to remember every username and password. All you have to remember is one fuser id and password. The rest of it is taken care of once you configure your fuser account. This is a very safe and secure way to unify all your accounts.
Signing up for fuser.
Sign up procedure for fuser is very simple and it wouldn’t take you more than 2 minutes to complete the sign up. However fuser requires the latest Java module and therefore might ask you to upgrade the Java version on your computer. Once you have upgraded the Java, you can easily sign up for the fuser account. it wouldn’t take you more than 2 minutes to complete the procedure.
Unify other email accounts.
Now after the sign up you will have to configure you fuser account by providing information about your existing email accounts and social networking site accounts. Fuser downloads mails from almost all the top web-based email services. It supports Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, Netscape.net and many more. And for social networking sites, it supports Facebook and News Corp.’s MySpace.
Once you configure your email accounts with fuser, then you needn’t login to those accounts at all. All you need to do is just login to your fuser account only. The fuser account will download all the emails in all accounts into your fuser account and you can reply from your fuser account itself. This saves a lot of time signing in to every email account, checking for mails and replying because all emails sent to all accounts arrive here at the fuser account.
You can even download emails from other non-web-based email accounts as well here using POP3 or IMAP mail technology.
Switching emails.
To identify different email accounts, fuser uses a color scheme. This helps you to switch accounts very easily when there is whole list of emails there flooding your inbox.
Turn-on or turn-off accounts
You can easily turn on and turn off emails accounts temporarily by just clicking on the email id in the list of accounts. You can also turn off all accounts and just keep one account active.
Problems encountered
The service is very slow and mails take their own time to open ranging up to 2 minutes. This is very bad because I would rather login to different accounts to wait for so long to see my mails. Also ads are appended to the outgoing mails. Probably you have to do such things to provide a free web-based service, but again Gmail doesn’t append ads. The ads seen on the right side are the ones acceptable. Not the ones that get appended to the email.
Hope the service comes up with better features and quicker access as well. The idea is good, integrating all accounts, but the entire service will catch up only if the make good improvements on the existing beta launch.
Quick Tip : In case you still can’t see any better use of it, then in case your office blocks MySpace or Facebook then you can happily check them using Fuser.
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Thanks for this post, as well as the great feedback on Fuser. We’re currently working on a release that improves Fuser’s speed, I’d love to hear your feedback on that release when we get it out. Thanks, also, for letting us know that the taglines at the end of emails are an issue, we’ll take a look at that too.
One point of clarification, Fuser is restricted by the same firewalls that Facebook and Myspace are, so if you can’t check one of those accounts at work, we won’t be able to get around the firewall either. Thanks again for your feedback!
@ Emily : Thanks a lot for clairifying that it won’t work if firewall blocks myspace or facebook.
And I’m glad that this review provided you some decent feedback. We’ll love to post about Fuser in future too :)
i would like to be able to access all my email accounts in one place using FUSER.
I tried it, but it would only accept SOME of my email accounts. It was a great idea, though. Wish it had worked for me!
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