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Google Two Step

February 20, 2011 gmail
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Recently, Google has added a cool feature to both Gmail and Google Apps – two factor authentication. What does that mean? When you sign-in to your email (or anything for that matter), you will typically have a username and password to enter. That is “one factor”, which means it is something you know. For various [...]

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Gmail gets SSL by default

January 14, 2010 gmail

I’m sure it was prompted by the recent Chinese situation, but more kudos to Google for making SSL the default setting for Gmail and Google Apps. Most people don’t realize that your email typically flies around the hotel room, Starbucks, or your work  in an encrypted form. That’s right – it can be easily sniffed [...]

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Trouble with Bellsouth and Yahoo email

August 5, 2009 bellsouth

Retweeted: 3-25-2010 ATT did a stupid partnership deal with Yahoo a couple of years ago to provide email services through Yahoo, and they have done it without proper warning to customers. That means that some of you using services such as Gmail to pop3 your Bellsouth email in – suddenly find it not working. I’ve [...]

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iPhone and a deal with the AT&T Devil

February 18, 2009 gmail

Well I finally bit the bullet and purchased an iPhone. That means I had to port my phone number from Verizon to AT&T – so you may have gotten an “out of service” message yesterday between 5pm and 6pm while the migration took place.Over the last few years, I know that I have stressed the [...]

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Consolidating Email Accounts – There can be only 1

February 14, 2009 email

It’s an old dilemma that I encounter frequently – you have a Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, and Gmail account. You are tired of logging in to check all of them. Some email programs don’t work well them – for example you have to pay Yahoo $20 a year for features that Gmail offers for free. What [...]

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Total Google Email – 6 months later

December 11, 2008 email

As many of you know, I made the decision several months ago to switch to a totally web-based email system. Of course my preference was Google’s Gmail so naturally I went with Google Apps for my domain. 6 months later – I don’t regret it at all. There are just too many advantages to name [...]

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Webmail vs. Local Email?

December 4, 2008 email

Note: This was just before I shifted to Google Apps web based email only. I am constantly asked about the differences in webmail vs an email program. Webmail Examples: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL Webmail Advantages Can access from any computer connected to the Internet (Win, Mac, Linux) If your computer has a catastrophic crash, the [...]

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Trusting Google with your Email

July 13, 2008 backup

When Gmail first came out I started using it as an address for message board registrations and things like that. Since I’ve owned my own domains since about 1999, I’ve always used them for my primary email. My old method of backup was to use Outlook or Outlook Express and finally Thunderbird for POP3. Periodically, [...]

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