Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German. Show all posts

Friday, October 8, 2010

Doppelgänger

Any double or look-alike of a person:

Doppelgänger

Notes:
- In popular culture, a doppelgänger refers to a double of a living person that typically represents evil.
- "Doppelgänger" is a loanword from German with the same meaning in English.
- In German language, Doppelgänger, is formed by "Doppel" which means "double", and "Gänger" which means "walker".

Sunday, October 3, 2010

GMX Mail

A German-based free webmail service which in 2010 acquired American internet domain Mail.com:

GMX Mail

According to About.com: The Reader's Choice Awards for The Best in Email 2010:

1) Gmail — 820 (45.50%)
2) GMX Mail — 376 (20.87%)
3) Yahoo! Mail — 340 (18.87%)
4) Windows Live Hotmail — 143 (7.94%)

Quoted from
http://www.gmx.com/ in October 2010:
GMX provides 5 GB e-mail storage and attachments up to 50 MB. Send 30 high-res photos or your favorite MP3 album in just one e-mail or share them with our free File Storage exchange.