You have more e-mail addresses than you do pairs of socks-so it makes sense to keep them all in one drawer. If you have mail coming to your ISP's account, your work address, your school address, and your throwaway Yahoo account from 1998, and you're having difficulty juggling everything, it's time to consolidate all of those messages into a single inbox.

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Google's free Web-based Gmail service is both an e-mail host and an e-mail client. Use Gmail's built-in Mail Fetcher to retrieve messages from up to five external e-mail accounts that use the POP3 standard. In Gmail's Settings area, click the Accounts tab to set up your external e-mail addresses. After you're done, you'll receive all of your mail in one roomy inbox. You can even send mail from your non-Gmail addresses via Gmail's Compose screen, too.