Yearly Archives: 2014

ICANN Goes International. Is it a good thing?

US Agreement With ICANN Leaves Much Undone "The oversight of the Internet's infrastructure will become more international under a new government agreement with ICANN. But many concerns remain unresolved." Not that I disagree in the idea that all people be involved in a free and open internet; I believe that opening ICANN up in a…
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Domain Names

Google Partner Videos

For all those not able to attend our event in person we have provided videos of the event below. I have chosen to order the three part event in order of what I believe to be the most useful instead of the order of presentation. The first and I think one of the most useful…
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AdWords, SEO

Yahoo / AOL changes Sending Policy

Not surprisingly companies are always trying to find ways to protect their users from Spam and Phishing schemes, however, Yahoo and AOL made a change this week than can effect a lot of email marketing and notification services. They have changed their DMARC policy which means that emails sent from a third party system using…
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Email Marketing

Security threats abound this week, OpenSSL

From Microsoft ending support for XP and OpenSSL having a major code fault the web has been a buzz about security. The problem with OpenSSL vulnerability (called Heatbleed by Google) is that the issue has been there for 2 years but researchers on the right side of the law have just found it. The wrong…
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Security

The clock is ticking for Windows XP

Yes, yes I know. Another post reminding users to take their Windows XP machines off line and either upgrade or get a new computer. Remember some computers running Windows XP may be to old to just handle the upgrade and you will need a beefier computer. On that note Microsoft is introducing a promotion of…
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Browsers, Support

Why doesn’t my email arrive with an attachment?

As a user recently reported an email I sent with an attachment never arrived. Not even in the Spam box. So what happened? Well my first thought is my email was blocked, but no. Emails without this particular attachment arrived fine. Next thought, the attachment is being flagged and the ISP is trashing it before…
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FAQ, Support

What Browser version am I using?

In any bug reporting a key item to replicating the issue is to know some key details. In Chrome follow these instructions. 1) Click Setting in the upper right corner. 2) Click About Google Chrome 3) See what version and send these details to your tech support along with the Operating System you are using…
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Browsers, Support

Microsoft Outlook 2010: Adding a Text Entry to AutoCorrect

Most people use short hand to abbreviate common words like info = information and pic for picture, but is this really good email etiquette. Well there is a little known trick to using the auto-correct feature in Outlook to fix these abbreviations for you. Follow the steps below to make your life a bit easier…
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Outlook