Posts Tagged ‘Gmail’

Brand your email address

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Internet branding

Yesterday, we examined some of the factors involved in selecting a domain name for your business. It needs to be a .com, match your company’s name, be short and be marketed in lowercase. Today, in the next installment of our Internet branding series, we’re going to look at your email address.
The worst mistake you can [...]

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Email folders and labels should be based on task, not sender

Image by jaqian via Flickr

There are many different approaches to email usage. While some, including John C. Dvorak, say that email is dead, we feel that if used properly email can be a valuable tool and can successfully double as a to-do list.
Google Gmail is superior to any other  email service. The stunning feature set [...]

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Hosted Exchange allows users to share Outlook without headache

Microsoft Outlook is the best corporate email and scheduling tool. That’s a tough statement to make as an open source advocate, but until the open source equivalent called Evolution matures, Outlook will remain the corporate standard for email, calendar and scheduling.
For personal and small-business email, Outlook sucks. It’s bloated, expensive and has a problem with [...]

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MozBackup and Belarc Advisor

My HP Pavilion tablet PC is slowly dying. Sent to and returned from the shop twice already since I bought it 14 months ago, both times for a motherboard replacement, its hard drive started flaking on me last month. I was able to repair the hard drive with a disk utility and it’s been working [...]

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