Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

13th
Jan

Exchange My Mail Offers Full Hosted Exchange Support for New Verizon iPhone

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Exchange My Mail, Inc, a leader in Hosted Microsoft Exchange, today announced that its hosted Exchange service will be available on the new Verizon iPhone the same day it is made available to customers. Exchange My Mail will use Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, to configure the new Verizon iPhone to wirelessly send and receive Exchange email, calendar, contacts and more.

Exchange My Mail supports business class email and collaboration on a wide range of smartphones, including BlackBerry,  iPhone, Motorola Droid, Palm Treo, Google’s Nexus One, Samsung Blackjack, Motorola Q, and the T-Mobile Dash .

Interest in Apple devices has had tremendous growth in the industry as a whole. We see a tremendous increase in mobile devices that use ActiveSync to wirelessly sync data like the iPhone & iPad.

As more business people come to rely on smartphones, including the iPhone, to access Microsoft Exchange, demand for our mobility services has increased. Companies no longer have to standardize on a single smartphone to minimize operational expenses and complexity. Each user can select the smartphone that works best for them.

“The most popular question we get from existing and potential customers is whether or not their current phone, or the new phone that is about to be launched will be supported by our business-class hosted email,” says Steven Daneshgar, Exchange My Mail. “We want it to be known that the Verizon’s iPhone is fully supported.”

To read more about Exchange My Mail, or sign-up for a new account, visit http://www.exchangemymail.com

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Posted in ActiveSync, Apple iPhone, Gadgets, General, Hosted Exchange, Hosted Exchange 2007, Hosted Exchange 2010, Press Releases, Technology, Tips & Tricks, Wireless Service

2nd
Jul

Exchange My Mail Makes Outlook 2010 Available Today!

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Exchange My Mail, a leading provider of Microsoft Exchange hosting has today made Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2011 for Mac available to all Exchange My Mail customers & partners.

Outlook 2010 is Microsoft’s latest version of the worlds most popular business email client.

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In order to use Outlook to it’s full potential such as contact & calendar sharing and full wireless sync with mobile devices, you need Hosted Microsoft Exchange.

New and exciting features have been developed for Outlook 2010. Here are some of the cool client features now available!

MailTips: MailTips gives a non-intrusive warning when you’re about to send a message that doesn’t look quite right – such as when you’re going to send a message to a distribution list or to all users in your contacts – it gently asks you if this is in fact your intention. It also lets you know if you aren’t responding to a most recent version of an email chain. MailTips is a friendly tap on the shoulder when you’re about to send a message.

Conversation View: Email can be inundating…Conversation View consolidates messages by conversation. For example, say Bill, Frank and Allison are emailing back and forth about a presentation and you are CCd on the messages. You will see the conversation by subject and when you click on a drop down arrow all the messages are there – newest on top. You can even mange the conversation by right clicking and confirming to delete yourself from the conversation or remove unnecessary portions of that particular conversation.
Microsoft’s website has some great info on all of the new features and benefits.

Read What’s new in Microsoft Outlook 2010 and then check out this video from Microsoft on some of the newest features and benefits of Outlook 2010.

Read about Outlook 2011 for Mac here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/feb10/02-11msmacworld2010pr.mspx

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Exchange My Mail customers can download Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2011 for Mac from the web based administrative control panel.
Just login with your user-name and password, and click on “Help and Support”  then “Documentation Downloads”
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30th
Jun

Apple iOS4 & ActiveSync Problems

iOS4 & ActiveSync Problems:

Exchange Mail, Contacts, or Calendars may not sync after update.

We have been reading many articles all over the web about users who have recently upgraded to the latest iOS4 for their iPhone. This new OS is also standard on the iPhone4. Although Exchange My Mail has not suffered from this issue yet, we want to be proactive about it. We are closely monitoring our ActiveSync infrastructure.

It has been reported by Apple, that “immediately after updating to iOS 4, some users may notice that Exchange ActiveSync Mail, Contacts, or Calendars do not sync, or sync very slowly. In addition, some Exchange Server administrators may notice their servers running slowly”.

Microsoft has classified this as a client side issue related to the Apple iOS4 update and is not planning to release a patch or update.

Apple has released a knowledge base article and a configuration patch for impacted phones which can be found at the following URL: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3398

If you are upgrading your iPhone or have purchased a new iPhone4 device you MUST install the configuration update above. Failure to do so will result in incomplete sync of your items and may cause performance issues. If you run an iOS4 device without the configuration patch above your device may be disabled for policy violation to prevent performance issues.

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Posted in ActiveSync, Apple iPhone, Customer Service, Gadgets, General, Hosted Exchange, Hosted Exchange 2007, Hosted Exchange 2010, Software, Technology, Tips & Tricks, Wireless Service

6th
Apr

New Grid Hosting Beta Program – Free

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There is limited space available, so we will handle requests in first come first serve fashion. The beta will be free of charge, with discounts available to those who participate once we launch.

The control panel will be very familiar as it is the same kind we use now for our Hosted Exchange Offering. Besides simply web hosting, you can initiate one click installations for many web applications such as, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. FTP , Mysql databases, DNS management, and more are all included as well.

Please understand this is a BETA, and your production sites should not be hosted on this system. We will offer simple migration of data and subscriptions to production system at discounted prices when ready.

What is grid hosting you ask?
Grid Hosting is a cluster-based, modern hosting service powered by multiple servers working in tandem to power your websites, applications and email with unrivaled power, burstability and reliability.

Why do I need Grid Hosting?
Easily handle traffic spikes with the power of multiple servers behind your site.

If conventional hosting plans can’t keep up with your demands, or constantly going down for one reason or another, go with the provider that can match load requirements as your site grows. Grid Hosting from Exchange My Mail puts the power of multiple servers to work for you. With elastic scalability, 99.999% up-time and no need for site migration during growth spurts, Grid Hosting is for you!

Please be willing to send us feedback and answer short survey’s, comments and questions as needed.

Click here to get started.

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16th
Mar

Top Ten BlackBerry Productivity Tips to Help you Work Smarter, Better and Faster

googleappsblackberry1If you own a BlackBerry, chances are good that you are super busy and interested in maximizing your productivity while on the go. That means you’ve probably been too busy to familiarize yourself with the dozens of built-in features and add-ons BlackBerry provides to help you be even more productive. So for the time-crunched, we have included the top ten BlackBerry shortcuts and speed features that will keep your fingers flying.

 1.       Selecting text on a page: Press the Shift key and then move the wheel up or down.

2.       Scrolling: Spacebar will scroll down the page, and pressing Shift and the space bar together will scroll up.

3.       Get better radio reception: Turn your radio off and then on again to force a scan of the network.

4.       Dial vanity phone numbers more easily: Dial 1-800-Mix-A-Lot faster by pressing Alt and then typing the letters instead of the numbers.

5.       Speed dial special characters: If you press and hold any letter key, you can use the thumb wheel to select the character you want.

6.       Stop a slow web page from loading: If you change your mind, press the escape button to stop the page from loading.

7.       Reboot without removing the battery: Press Alt, Caps and Delete at the same time to reboot.

8.       Find your (car) keys faster: BlackBerries make great flashlights.

9.       Dry out your BlackBerry if it gets wet: You can put the BlackBerry in a bowl of rice, in a box with some silica packets (like the kind that come with new shoes) or submerge it in alcohol and then take it apart to let it air dry.

10.   Get Google Apps for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES): The latest productivity booster is the seamless integration of Google Apps with your BlackBerry, including 60 second push send and deliver.

You can read more tips and tricks for the BlackBerry at: The BlackBerry Power User’s Guide: 121 CrackBerry tips, hacks, how to’s and resources.

To find out how to get Google Apps for BES, contact Exchange My Mail and ask about our $9.99 per BlackBerry package with worry-free hosted BES.

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28th
Aug

Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Google Apps is here!

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Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server now available!

Exchange My Mail is the first Hosted Exchange provider to offer Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Google Apps.

The power of BlackBerry Enterprise Server is now available to Google Apps customers in the cloud.

We have created a highly available, clustered solution for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, housed in our state of the art datacenter.
With Google Apps customers in mind, we have designed this system for 99.999% uptime reliability. All systems are monitored by an advanced monitoring system, and maintained by fully trained system admins. As you begin to move your company to the cloud, it only makes sense to move your BlackBerry Enterprise Server to the cloud as well.

Our solution will enable you to fully utilize your BlackBerry with our Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server with Google mail. Below are some of the currently supported features between Google and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.


Features include:
* Messages sent to your Gmail inbox are pushed to your BlackBerry within 60 seconds.
* Emails read/deleted on your BlackBerry are marked as read/deleted in Gmail, and vice-versa.
* Emails archived/starred on your BlackBerry are archived/starred in Gmail, and vice-versa.
* BlackBerry folders are synchronized with labels in Gmail.
* You can search for contact information of coworkers from the global address list on your BlackBerry.
* Contacts in Gmail are automatically synchronized with your BlackBerry address book.
* You can view your Google Calendar schedule with the native BlackBerry application, with two-way synchronization from Google Calendar to your BlackBerry device. Two-way calendar sync with the ability to accept, decline and schedule meetings from your BlackBerry device is now working and available to all users!

Requirements
* Google Apps Premier or Educational Edition
* BlackBerry Devices with proper BES level service from your wireless provider.

Our Hosted BlackBerry for Google Apps solution is cost effective, and easy to setup. Our technicians will walk you through everything that needs to be done, and if a custom IT policy is needed to meet specific company policy we can do that as well.

Easy to understand pricing.

$50.00 setup fee (1 time only )
$9.99 per blackberry / per month

There are no contracts to sign, no minimum’s and you can order as many users as you need. Cancel at any time within the first 30 days and get a full refund if you are not completely satisfied.

Exchange My Mail is a BlackBerry Alliance Member.

Get more details and order your own BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Google Apps Now.

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2nd
Jul

How Bloggers Can Fight Spam –

How Bloggers Can Fight Spam:

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Bloggers all over the world have learned an unfortunate reality: spammers love to hit any Web site that lets them leave comments. Many spammers are not human – they’re programmed bots that hit numerous sites every hour, posting links in comments sections. Others are human – these spammers are also able to hit plenty of blogs each hour.

No blogger wants a cluttered, spam-infested comments section, but most don’t necessarily have much free time to deal with spam. If you have a blog, and you’re trying to fight junk messages, these tips will help you control the garbage without devoting a few hours a day to deleting unwanted comments.

* Require a login to post comments. Spammers might log in and comment anyway, but many will pass over your site in favor of a “friendlier” one. Making users login before they comment also discourages the anonymous Internet trolls, as they prefer to remain unknown.

* Enable the CAPTCHA feature. Anybody who wants to leave a comment on your blog must type the series of characters on the screen. This is fairly effective, as most spambots aren’t capable of reading the characters. Many human spammers can’t be bothered.

* Moderate comments. This feature lets you approve each comment before it appears on your blog. The disadvantage is that you do have to wade through comment spam. However, this is also an easy way to filter out comments from Internet trolls and just-plain-annoying visitors.

Those solutions, however, do not encourage visitors to interact with you, or return in the future. Many Internet users want things to be as simple as possible: they aren’t really interested in going through an extra step or two simply to comment on your blog.

One of the keys to fighting spam without discouraging your visitors is to keep things as simple as possible. There are, fortunately, several ways to accomplish this. These methods are not necessarily universal: some blog sites support them, and others don’t.  WordPress is the most popular Blogging software available, and has many spam fighting capabilities built in. There are also tons of plugins available to add additional functionality to your beloved blog.

If your not already using WordPress as your blogging software, you might have to switch your blog over to another site to take advantage of these features. However, that might be worth your time if it means that you’ll have a sizable advantage over the spammers.

* Look for spam-fighting scripts. These bits of programming are often easy to install and don’t typically require much maintenance on your part. Try different scripts to see which one works best with your blog.

* Create a “keyword blacklist.” You create a list of keywords that will trigger the blog site’s filtering system. If a comment includes one or more of the words on your blacklist, then the comment is not posted. This can be great for fighting spam, but difficult on your “real” readers. The blacklist looks for keywords, not overall content, so one “bad” word in a legitimate comment causes the site to scrap the whole comment.

These are just a few of the ways that you can fight comment spam. In most cases, these will drastically reduce the number of spam comments you see on your blog. However, you should check the blog site that you use to see what unique or site-specific measures it offers. Each blog site is a bit different from the others, so learn about what your site can do.

When deciding where to host your blog, remember that uptime is key. You don’t want your blog site down when your readers are trying to visit your site. Shared Hosting companies are offering some great deals now for WordPress blogs, however remember that these are shared servers. So uptime is not going to be that great. Even the best hsoting companies cannot completely control the environment. The databases are shared as well, and so one busy site, or a web developer who is doing sloppy work can easily cause problems for the whole server.

In order to ensure the best uptime, a Windows VPS Server may be your best option.  Because a VPS server is isolated, you are the only one using those resources, and you will not be effected by others like on a shard environment.

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23rd
Jun

Great plugins that will enhance your wordpress blog.

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WordPress is one of the easiest to use and most powerful blogging platforms around.  The versatility of WordPress is its greatest feature, it has the ability to act as a blog and also as a static web site.  The ease of use when it comes to both updating your site as well as maintaining it is phenomenal.

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One of the WordPress features that holds the bulk of the power of the software package is the utilization of plugins.  Plugins allow your blog to perform or display specific functions and are highly customizable in almost every way.  They are also easy to use as generally all it takes to put them into use is activating them in the admin screen of the WordPress platform.

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Lets look at some of the most valuable plugins you can use to enhance your blog.

Akismet – Probably the first plugin you should activate, it helps keep spam comments from needing to be moderated.

All In One SEO Pack – A great SEO plugin that gives each post its own Title, Keywords, and description.

Subscribe To Comments – This plugin is a nice way to get an RSS feed for the comments to each post.

WordPress Database Backup – This is essential as it helps lessen the chance that all of your blog info will be lost.  This plugin automatically backs up all of your database information and emails them to you at the exact time each day or week you specify.

AdRotator – This is a simple to use plugin that allows you to enter a list of banner or box ads, even text ads, that will be displayed on your site.  Then, each time a new page is opened or the same page is refreshed, a new ad appears in that one spot that you have specified.  This can also be used for cycling random photos or quotes too.

Sociable – A very cool plugin that puts links to all the popular social networking sites like StumbleUpon and Digg at the end of each post.  This is very handy as it allows your readers to bookmark them right there at the site of the post they are already reading.

Related Posts – This is a powerful plugin that allows readers to view other posts that you have written and they might be interested in.

Google Sitemaps – A nice plugin that helps to insure that Google knows about each and every post and page that makes up your site.

NextGen Gallery – A very easy to use photo gallery plugin that allows you to place single images, slideshows, and full blown galleries into posts and pages.

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Using all of these WordPress plugins, and others as well, you have the ability to convert your standard blog into a web based masterpiece.  The plugins provided for use with the WordPress blogging platform are the single best reason to choose WordPress as the package that runs your blog.  With the wide variety of options available through the thousands of available plugins made for WordPress, it will be no time before you have one of the best blogs on the internet working for you.

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3rd
Jun

Evernote Comes to BlackBerry.

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As you may already know, we love Evernote. We’ve blogged about it several times here, but today is special. Although this post is a bit late, we are very excited to se Evernote on the BlackBerry!

The team over at Bnet blogged about this on May 12th, and I’ve personally been loving it since that day.

Evernote for BlackBerry lets you create notes containing text, snapshots, voice recordings, and file attachments. Once created, the new content is automatically sent to the Evernote Service, making it available across all the versions of Evernote that you use. You can also access your existing notes, search by keywords, filter by tags and notebooks, or simply browse.

So lets give credit where credit is due, and link you right to the source.

Read the full Bnet blog post here

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15th
Jan

Facebook for BlackBerrys and iPhones – Mobile Addiction

bb_facebookSocial networking websites have rapidly been changing the way we use the web. Perhaps the greatest change over the last year has been the way in which people are accessing websites such as Facebook. Adoption of the new Facebook application for BlackBerry Smartphones and iPhones has been tremendous (over 1 million downloads reached in 2008) and many users are now accessing Facebook not from home, but from wherever they may be and whatever time of day. Social media has gone mobile.

Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones has been available for a while now, but its popularity is growing exponentially. It is a free piece of software available for download directly from your BlackBerry. It is simple to install and run and you will notice that Facebook has been changed significantly to provide better functionality and viewing on your Smartphone. Admittedly, the application is not as feature rich as if you were accessing Facebook from a PC but the convenience of being able to make simple status updates or send messages to friends is too good to pass up.

Perhaps one of the best features of the application is photo-sharing which is not available on any other version of Facebook. This allows you to take a photo with your Blackberry and then with one click you can have it posted to Facebook. This feature means you could be travelling somewhere or having a fun day out and instantly be able to share your experience with your friends.

There are a few hindrances, however. You will not be able to use any third party apps on Facebook and connection speeds can vary based on your location. The ease of use and simple design is helping to create a new niche of mobile micro-blogging, in which friends can interact with each other anywhere on the planet and at anytime.

Download the application here:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/features/social/facebook.jsp#tab_tab_download

Become a Fan of the BlackBerry on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/BlackBerry

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