2012 17th January

Be smart about password security

Infographic cybersecurity from LifehackerLifehacker.com posted a fantastic info graphic that you should read at least once in your life.

 

 

2011 14th November

Verizon pisses off another customer, only this time it’s a journalist

Guess who’s not using his brand new Droid Razr? | ZDNet http://zd.net/sKC3Za

Christopher Dawson of ZDNet uses 2 pages to document how horrible Verizon’s service is. Sigh.

2011 4th November

New, “fresher” Google rankings affect 35% of searches

Google has updated its Caffeine web indexing algorithm to display more recent search results when searching for time-sensitive events and information… Link to article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/new-fresher-google-rankings-affect-35-of-searches/3439?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

Summary: Google results are now more current. 35% of searches now show recent updates. This will be good for everyone who keeps their site up to date. This is bad news for people who do not add new content more often.

2011 10th October

Advanced Settings for Email with Outlook Express

Before starting:

  1. Make sure your domain name loads. If it doesn’t load your your email account won’t work.
  2. Make sure you have setup your email accounts at yourdomain.com/cpanel .
  3. Make sure that you already have an account setup

You are now ready to begin setting up advanced email account settings.

  1. Open Outlook Express
  2. Go to “Tools” and click on “AccountsOutlook Express Tutorial 1
  3. A “Internet Accounts” window will pop up. High-lite you account and click on “PropertiesOutlook Express Tutorial 2
  4. This will open a window with 4 or 5 tabs. Click on the Serverstab.Outlook Express Tutorial 3
  5. Verify your mail server in each box.
    In the Incoming mail (POP3) field type mail.yourdomain.com
    In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) field type mail.yourdomain.com
    (so if your domain name is elitepolls.com, then you would put “mail.elitepolls.com” there). Click Next.
  6. Now type in your username that you have setup from cpanel using the following format:”yourusername+yourdomain.com” rather than “yourusername@yourdomain.com”
  7. Verify that “Outgoing Mail Server” has a check mark next to “My server requires authentication
  8. Next click on the “Advanced” tab. Set the “Outgoing mail (SMTP):” value to 26.
  9. Just click “OK” and “Close” – send a test message. — Your done.

 

2011 29th September

If you remember past apple efforts at voice recognition, this may not be good news.

Remains of the Day: Rumor Has It the iPhone 5 Wants to Be Your New Assistant [For What It's Worth] – http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/vip/~3/t4Hpp7TC7Io/remains-of-the-day-rumor-has-it-that-the-iphone-5-wants-to-be-your-new-assistant

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