Configuring iPad To Send Email

Posted on by
Reply

So you’ve made the leap and purchased the New iPad and now you’re ready to play with it. First you need to configure your POP email account in order to send/receive email. After copying your configuration from Outlook or your Smartphone, you are now ready. All goes well and you are receiving all emails without a hitch. Now you try to send a test message and that’s when you are faced with the dreaded message, “Server Rejects Email Recipients“. You don’t need to panic.

First ensure that when you add your email account under Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars and you select Other, all information is complete. Once you have inputted all the information that is requires and you are on the New Account screen, make sure that the Tab that is selected is POP and not IMAP. Selecting the incorrect tab can give you the Server Rejects Email Recipient error.

To get around this error, under Outgoing Mail Server settings, be sure to enter your user name and password even-though on the iPad the settings might say “Optional”. I’ve had a few situations where I’ve left the user name and password to optional blank and have received the error. Once I’ve inputted the login information then the error message goes away.

Hope this works for you.

Wireless Security For Your Home/Business

Posted on by
Reply

Many Home Based Businesses are running some sort of wireless network these days. Sadly I have come across way too many of these networks which are unsecured. Most of these businesses don’t understand the implications of not securing their wireless networks. Not securing your wireless can lead to disaster and tons of security issues.

There are seven things you can do to protect yourself:

  1. Secure your wireless router or access point administration interface
  2. Don’t broadcast your SSID
  3. Enable WPA encryption instead of WEP
  4. Remember that WEP is better than nothing
  5. Use MAC filtering for access control
  6. Reduce your WLAN transmitter power
  7. Disable remote administration

If you like more information or would like to have your wireless assessed, please contact me to discuss.

Open Source Websites Should Be Cheaper?

Posted on by
Reply

Open source matters

Joomla! is a registered trademark

I was confronted with a situation recently after I built a website for a particular company using the Joomla! platform. Questions arose as to why the cost for this particular website was not more cost effective than if it was a traditional website. Meaning developing from scratch using .Net, C+, C++, Java, VB etc. I found myself having to explain hat not because an open source platform was used for the website, it did not mean that there wasn’t any labour involved. This person did not understand that it took time to find the right template as the right color scheme had to be determined, time to produce the banner, and time to put it all together.

The uneducated with regards to Open Source needs to understand that Joomla!, WordPress and others are just another platform for creating beautiful websites on the internet. Sure open source saves you a lot of hours of coding but that is not all that is required to build a website and having everything in the right place. I would challenge this individual to have a professional website built with an Open Source platform by a professional see what their cost would be. I suspect that they would be surprised.

GM To Move 100,000 Employees To Google Apps

Posted on by
Reply

General Motors is close to signing a deal with Google  to move more than 100,000 employees to Gmail  and Google Apps.

The Wall  Street Journal reports that the deal  has been signed but is not final yet because Google still has to meet  certain conditions from GM.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/gm-is-about-to-move-100000-employees-to-google-apps-2011-11#ixzz1d2bAXdDL

Celebrating 10 years of Windows XP

Posted on by
Reply

Windows XP image

Shortly after the world entered the 21st century, Microsoft launched Windows XP. Now the world will celebrate its 10-year anniversary.

A decade ago the majority of the PCs shipped were desktops and today they’re laptops. In fact, IDC has interesting stats that puts this into perspective. In 2001, about 80% of shipments worldwide were desktops compared to approximately 20% laptops. A 2011 forecast has shipments of desktops at roughly 40% desktop versus around 60% laptops worldwide.

As I think back 10 years, I had never watched a video or listened to music online and my camera still used film. Back then, we would have been pleasantly surprised to have internet access outside our office, and today we’re disappointed if wireless access isn’t free at our local coffee shop. We have come a long way in 10 years.