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5 simple steps to transfer your domain’s email to Google mail.

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:10:35 +0000

You can now allow Google handle your domain’s email while keeping your existing addresses. Solution – Google Apps.

Google Apps let you to move all your email to Google. Here are a small amount of advantages to think about:

Google uptime
Google speed
Continuous stability
You can use Google Mail as your domain’s webmail (Popper, Squirrelmail or IMP)
Google’s built in spam filtering
Google lets you customize the logo on hosted mail.
IMAP support
SMTP support
SSL support on incoming and outgoing mail

Here are the 5 simple steps:

Create an account at Google Apps. Make a new Google Apps User for each existing Email User at your existing domain.
Verify your domain rights with Google.
Point your MX records to Google’s mail servers
Wait for update.
Pay the upgrade fee (optional) and import everything from a GMail account

Tip:If you want to access your mail via POP on more than one computer just prefix your POP login with “recent:” without the quotes – recent:user@domain.com

Google Apps

Goodbye, Microsoft. Google Presentations added to Google Docs & Spreadsheets

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:10:09 +0000

Google Docs became even more powerful by adding an application to create presentations. The Official Google Blog just announced the addition of presentations to Google Docs. From the blog:

Starting today, presentations — whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor — are listed alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs document list. They can be edited, shared, and published using the familiar Google Docs interface, with several collaborators working on a slide deck simultaneously, in real time. When it’s time to present, participants can simply click a link to follow along as the presenter takes the audience through the slideshow. Participants are connected through Google Talk and can chat about the presentation as they’re watching.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Google has acquired Postini

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:58:54 +0000

With Postini Solutions, you can secure all of your electronic communications – email, instant messaging and the web – and manage your company’s communication policies from one central location. Postini Solutions can also make it easy to meet your archiving and encryption needs.

Best of all, it’s all 100% hosted, so there’s no hardware or software to install or maintain. Whether you’re looking to transition from or enhance your existing messaging infrastructure for better control, Postini enables you to provide employees the tools they need to be productive while reducing the cost and complexity of managing those tools.

Google, Postini

Google Notebook – Clip and collect information as you browse the web.

admin — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:23:52 +0000

Clip useful information.
You can add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without ever leaving your browser window.

Organize your notes.
You can create multiple notebooks, divide them into sections, and drag-and-drop your notes to stay organized.

Get access from anywhere.
You can access your Google Notebooks from any computer by using your Google Accounts login.

Publish your notebook.
You can share your Google Notebook with the world by making it public.

Google Notebook

Google Reader – Your inbox for the web

admin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:44:47 +0000

With Google Reader, keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.
Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content.
Use Google Reader’s built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family.
Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.

Google Reader