“Now-a-days dual factor authentication is available, for most services, for free. Many of us have dual factor authentication on services such as our Gmail or Facebook. Google takes it a step further by offering their own free dual factor authentication system (Google Auth) that…
Don’t Let Scammers Bypass your Security Before we go into our Best Practices, let’s define “Phishing” so we are all on the same page. “Phishing is defined as the illegal attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and occasionally,…
Microsoft launched their cloud computing platform initially back in 2011, but it wasn’t until early 2013 that they launched multiple plans aimed at both home and business users. Now that it has been 2 years since their stable release, and with the buzz around cloud…
Gmail is adding functionality to email that will help catch it up to the 21st century We’ve spoke about it before; the difference between IMAP and POP email protocols, and as of June 24th, 2014, Google is revolutionizing the way that we communicate via email….
In a previous article we spoke about the differences between the POP and IMAP protocols for email. To dig deeper into the benefits of a solution such as Gmail, we first want to examine common problems that businesses run into when utilizing POP email. POP…
The question seems fairly straightforward, why use Gmail over any POP email services? The best place to start is to differentiate between the different emails protocols, or how we receive, store and access our messages. Email Protocols “THE DOWNFALL TO POP MAIL IS THAT…
Frustrated with your Email? There are a number of quick tips to test for connectivity before you call in IT to troubleshoot your exchange server. There are times when troubleshooting Outlook connectivity can be quite simple, and then there are other times where the process…
AWWWW I Got a Bounce Back on my Email… Why Does This Happen? In this day and age, we expect email just to work. I mean when thinking about it logically it just makes sense – we can video chat someone on our phones,…
Determining if Outlook 2013 is Worth Upgrading With the newest version of Microsoft Outlook being released, many companies are trying to determine if upgrading is the right decision. Although the new update is being considered as a minor improvement from 2010, there are some key…
Outlook 2013 has a completely refreshed interface, it’s cleaner, more functional and allows for extreme customization in terms of viewing your email your way! Microsoft did an amazing job of creating time saving efficiencies and intuitiveness. In this article we are going to highlight some…