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.

Windows Terminal Services allows you to run Microsoft Windows-based programs on a server and display them remotely on client computers. For example, you can install a single copy of Outlook 2003 on a Windows Terminal Services computer. Then, instead of running Outlook locally, multiple users can connect to the server and run Outlook from there.

However, there are some limitations to be aware of. For example, you cannot use Outlook with Cached Exchange Mode when you run Outlook on Windows Terminal Services. Also, to help provide the best supported Outlook experience for your users in a Terminal Services environment, pay special attention to managing Outlook features that might adversely affect performance.

Outlook features that are disabled with Terminal Services

The following Outlook features cannot be used when you are running Outlook in a Terminal Services environment:

• Offline store (OST) files.Features that rely on the OST (for example, Cached Exchange Mode and Offline) are not supported with Terminal Services.
• Forms Designer and the Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript) editor.You can view a custom form, but you cannot design a new form or revise an existing form.
• Changing the Time Zone from within Outlook.Changing this setting in Outlook updates a system setting.
• Changing Zone security settings from within Outlook.Changing this setting in Outlook updates a system setting.
• Changing the status of a Microsoft Exchange Client Extension.You cannot change the status; however, if the Exchange Client Extension is already on, it should work correctly.
• Adding stationery that was not included with Outlook as part of the Terminal Services installation.
• Outlook animations are disabled.Examples of Outlook animations include Send/Receive animation and the Search Folder creation icon.

I recently blogged about the new features of the recently released Microsoft Exchange 2010. In a nutshell, the Exchange 2010 release will offer enhanced features that:

* Increase productivity
* Increase your organizational flexibility
* Better protect information to meet compliance objectives

Here at Exchange My Mail we are excited to announce that all current hosted Exchange 2007 customers can be seamlessly upgraded to 2010 when it becomes available later this year.

That’s right – current account holders will have the opportunity to transparently be upgraded to Exchange 2010 with all the new features and benefits.

We will keep customers posted about the upgrade as we get closer to the roll out date. If you have any questions or concerns about the upcoming Microsoft Exchange 2010 upgrade, feel free to contact us.

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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Exchange My Mail has processed 12,310,644 email messages between July 15th 2009, and August 15th 2009. ( 31 Days )

Of those 12,310,644 messages, 4,495,043 were classified as blatant spam and deleted. Another 2,358,516 messages were flagged as spam, and sent to customers quarantine. Our customers received a total of 5,430,881 messages in their inbox, thus preventing hours upon hours of wasted time sorting though over 6.8 million spam messages. This translated into millions of dollars saved by our customers in lost time and productivity.

One domain received a total of 248,062 messages for the same 31 day period. Of those messages, 130,319 messages were flagged as blatant spam and deleted or quarantined. The remaining 117,743 messages were delivered to the mailboxes on the domain.

How much is spam costing your company? Google unveiled a nifty little calculator to help you add it up.

Once you quantify how much spam is costing your company, it makes sense to re-evaluate the IT options for managing spam. The first, and perhaps biggest, decision is whether to keep spam filtering in-house or use a hosted service. It can be difficult to add up the true expenses of each solution. On the surface, the cost of an appliance may seem reasonable, but the up-front costs are just the beginning in a complete cost-of-ownership calculation.

Exchange My Mail has always provided enterprise grade spam and virus protection to all customers at no additional cost. We partnered with Postini to offer their advanced spam and virus protection because we understand how important it truly is.

All of our Hosted Exchange plans come complete with Postini spam and virus protection, ActiveSync, and a free copy of Outlook 2007 or entourage 2008 for each user. Unlike our some of our competition we don’t nickle and dime our customers for every little thing.

Our Unmatched support is the reason for the amount of customer referrals we receive each day. Our customers are confident in our service and support that they are happy to refer friends and colleagues to us day after day.

Review our Ratepoint rating, and see for yourself.

See the original post here:
http://www.crn.com/software/219400510

Download Exchange 2010 RC1 here:
Exchange 2010 RC1 Download
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1. Database Availability Groups – allows Exchange administrators to have multiple copies of a database reside on multiple Exchange servers. In the event of a failure, the Exchange admin can bring up that secondary copy of the database on another already working Exchange server. A database failure will also be detected by Exchange automatically, and the secondary copy of the database will automatically be brought online within seconds.

   Another advantage of the DAG, is that having multiple copies of the database, allows Exchange to repair itself.. That’s right, it’s self healing..
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2. Outlook Web Access Features – There are quite a few new features with OWA.
   • Side-by-side comparison of calendars
   • Ability to attach messages to messages
   • Integration with Communicator including presence, chat, and a contact list
   • Conversation View! - I’ve been waiting for this.
   • Support for multiple browsers such as Firefox and Safari
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3. Unified Messaging Features :
   • Message Waiting Indicator
   • Voicemail Preview – This is basically speech to text that will display the text in your e-mail message to get a preview of what the voice mail includes
   • Personal auto attendants
   • Protected Voice Mail – Ability to track and restrict where voice mails can go
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4. Store Functionality:
   • No more Storage Groups
   • Mailboxes are no longer connected to the server object
   • I/O Improvements requiring 30% less I/O from Exchange 2007, and 70% less I/O from Exchange 2003.
   • Backupless by having multiple database copies stored on DAG members. ( backups are still recommended in order to go back in time to restore deleted items )
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5. Other
   • Multi-Mailbox Search
   • Text Messaging Integration (SMS)
   • Moderation and approval of distribution group submissions
   • Mail Tips – Will notify an Outlook user of an impeding error before it happens so the user doesn’t get a confusing NDR.  For example, if your message size limit is 10MB and the user tries sending a 15MB message, Outlook will notify the user before the user tries to send out the e-mail saving Exchange resources and making the failure experience more intuitive for the end user.

There’s quite a bit more, as I have only scratched the surface here. Read more about Exchange 2010 here.

Exchange My Mail, Inc has Exchange 2010 running internally in our Lab. We hope to be able to launch shortly after Microsoft releases the final version.

Stay tuned….

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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.

Related Articles:
Windows VPS Hosting - Bridging the Gap

Eight Reasons to Choose Windows VPS Hosting

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Virtual Private Server (VPS) or Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) hosting is the type of web hosting in which one server is partitioned into several dedicated servers (virtual servers), which can be stopped/started and operated independently. As a normal computer can be operated on Linux OS or Windows OS, the dedicated server may also be run using either. In this article, let’s see the benefits of using Windows VPS hosting.

1. It uses Windows: The most popular operating system in the world, Windows is familiar to almost all computer users. It’s so universal that it is the first choice of most users. Since the dedicated server in this hosting uses Windows, it will be a breeze for most people to set it up.
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2. Technology:The hosting is perfect for high traffic websites and small business sites that include complex web-based applications using Microsoft technologies. Since setting up is also pretty quick, the Windows VPS hosting scores well over shared hosting packages, which are pretty limited in capabilities.
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3. .Net and .Net Framework: Windows comes with built-in compatibility for the several programming languages in the .Net family, such as Visual Basic, Visual Interdev, and others. Hence, if your web business requires programming in any of these languages, then Windows server is the best choice.
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4. ASP (Active Server Pages) is a very popular scripting language counterpart of PHP and JSP. This can be run only under the Windows platform. PHP can also be run on a Windows server, providing that much more functionality. Applications like Wordpress which use PHP are running on many Windows Servers.
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5. FrontPage Extensions: Microsoft’s most popular web design software program, FrontPage extensions are built into the Windows server. A lot of people prefer this easy-to-use, feature-rich application to other software for the purpose.
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6. MSSQL Server and MySQL: Both databases are able to run on Windows Server without any problems. Some users prefer to use Microsoft SQL server, and others prefer to use the free open source version called MySQL. In either case, Windows Server is capable of running both, however Linux is not capable of running Microsoft MSSQL Server.
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7. Microsoft Sharepoint (used to create corporate web portals) is available only on Windows Server.
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8. Windows server is proprietary and well supported. The support of open source applications can never match the Windows. Also, Microsoft periodically publishes server updates and security patches. These updates make the server more robust. This is another major reason why many people prefer Windows hosting.
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Conclusion:
From this discussion, what we understand is that if you are a fan of the traditional Windows development platform and want the same capabilities in your website, then Windows VPS hosting is perfect for the purpose.

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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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