04.05.08

What I am buying for my next laptop

Posted in Gadgets, Laptops at 6:11 pm by john

I don’t use a desktop computer anymore
I’ve gone 100% laptop, and I really don’t miss having a big desktop computer any longer. I get asked a lot by friends and customers what computer they should buy. My advice is that if you are a businessperson that needs to be closely tied to email, you should just get a laptop and forget the desktop. Laptop sales are now greater than desktop sales, and there is a reason for that. At our office, everyone used to have desktop machines. Now, we have several new employees that are only using laptops besides me. I expect everyone to be on laptops in the future. I also use a docking station, which allows me to have dual monitors when I get to work. I just plug into the dock, and my second 24″ monitor boots up – works great. All of our staff at work has either two monitors, or a large 24″ monitor. I’ll never give up having two screens, and the 15″ laptop screen combined with a 24″ flat panel gives me all the room I need to have a large workspace.

Find out what I am buying after the jump.

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04.03.08

Hosting companies must stop forwarding email - or else.

Posted in Articles, Email Hosting, Internet Industry at 9:33 pm by john

Companies that offer email hosting service have seen quite a few changes over the years. Compared to years ago, spam is obviously more of a problem for everyone that uses email. To combat spam, we have employed special technologies on our network, and we have also used on-demand filtering services to pre-filter spam email before it comes into our network. Clients LOVE this service, because we are able to stop over 98% of spam before it gets to our customer’s mailboxes. While filtering spam has been has made email much more enjoyable, there are still other threats that can affect email delivery and spam. The biggest problems are mail-forwarding and catch-alls. In this post, I will explain what these are, and why they are so bad for email hosting providers. These two types of email accounts used to be OK to provide, but we have had to completely eliminate email forwarding over the last year. In speaking with other email hosting companies, I have discovered they have all had to make the same change, or are planning to. Find out why after the jump.

“we are able to stop over 98% of spam before it gets to our customer’s mailboxes “

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