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A customer emailed us today with a question we hear often from people who have other (usually POP3) emails attached to their Gmail accounts. We have this trouble to with our employee@aldash.com addresses. Here's the Q and A: Question: I'm having a hard time getting e-mail from me@address.com. It seems it takes about 30-40 minutes for one to show up. Any ideas on how I can get them … [Read more...]
Is your WordPress blog safe from attackers? It really depends on how long it's been since you updated your version of WordPress. It seems that the rising popularity of the WordPress platform has increased the number of security threats. Hackers have found a hole or two in older WordPress versions and are infiltrating blogs that are running on old versions of WordPress. Not to fear though. The … [Read more...]
"Hey honey! What's the password for Redbox?!" Nicolas and I have each have two computers, and he has a smart phone. In addition to preordering from Redbox, we each need to be able to check our bank accounts, edit websites, check email, pay tuition, order postage, and so forth and so on. There's no way that either of us can remember to tell each other what passwords we create. So we came up … [Read more...]
Which Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) movie was it? The hacker guesses Ryan's password in under 60 seconds. But that was just a movie - right? Right. In real life, the hacker isn't a person. It's a computer, and it can figure out your password a lot faster. A whole lot faster. And if you use something simple, like lovebug or sweetpea or mydogskip, you're not even giving the hacker a challenge. … [Read more...]
Remember when the only password you had to remember was the secret phrase that got you into your next door neighbor's fort? Life's a lot more complicated now. Now we have passwords and pins for so many things it's impossible to remember them all. Over the next three days, we're going to talk about passwords - how important it is to have secure ones and how to create relatively safe passwords … [Read more...]
Twice this week we've talked to customers who have a URL on their business card, but they don't yet have a website. When customers go to the address - they get placeholder pages and nothing more. Neither has hired us to create their page - yet. So, in the meantime, our suggestion to each of those businesses was to direct their customers to a Facebook page, which is free. Here's how to redirect … [Read more...]
We get lots of questions from people asking us how they can sync calendars, share calendars, and keep track of all their appointments and events even if they don't have a phone with internet access. For families and for businesses, there are a lot of complicated and expensive options to do that. Amazingly enough, though, the most comprehensive solutions is free, brought to us by our friends … [Read more...]
We've talked to three companies lately about email lists, and each time we've recommended that they use Aweber to manage their customer contact. Aweber is the email program to use. With its reputation for reliability and deliverability, you can be sure that your emails are getting through. With Aweber's advanced tracking, split testing capabilities, and autoresponder services, you'll reach more … [Read more...]
I can't resist trying out the new Tweet Now button just released by Twitter. It's the first official "Tweet this right now" button released by Twitter. I guess I never realized there was never an official Tweet button, what with Sociable and all. Anyhow, the new button is out, with three standard options and the chance to mess around in the code and create your own. When you click on the … [Read more...]
We started our first website back in 2001, back when I thought you were supposed to upload files one by one in cpanel. Our host patiently introduced me to FTP, and helped me figure out the whole process of building a website. (Did I mention my first site consisted of no text - only images of text?) We've always been almost perfectly pleased with this host. They knew me by name. They didn't care … [Read more...]
