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Cleartext ESM Launched
This last week we officially launched our live services and desktop messaging app. We’ve been in pre-release and talking to clients for a while now and even managed to sign up some early users. Read more here.
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re: Exchange 2010: Niggling Fears About Storage Requirements
I was just reading this Ferris piece on Exchange mailbox sizes and thought it would be useful to document Cleartext’s strategy for our hosted email clients storage. The Ferris article starts; ‘Exchange 2010′s database strategy is very interesting. The new … Continue reading
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Summer has arrived
We had a glorious weekend and I actually managed to avoid doing any work, well all but 30 minutes. I also managed to order replacement wing mirrors for my Rover, someone managed to clip the drivers side mirror while it … Continue reading
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Interesting email conversation
Bob: I’m in the office, best way to get me is IM Alice: you are not on sametime Bob: No, why would I be on a proprietary IM network which locks me into chatting to people on that network only … Continue reading
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I love Microsoft..
I thought I should go and take a look at Bing. So, what test should I set, I know, search for ‘managed email security’ with ‘show all’ selected. Surprise! ClearEmail comes out on top as the first non sponsored link, … Continue reading
Twitter attack.
Inevitable. Twitters blog about this. Sophos covering this and more.
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Testing the WordPress Prologue theme
Testing the WordPress Prologue theme
You really do need your own enterprise IM system
The article linked below should demonstrate a good enough reason to use an enterprise IM platform rather than public IM. Apart from the levels of ‘security’ offered by each public IM network it’s fairly obvious from the embedded chart that … Continue reading
I had to laugh…
Fifteen years ago a young anti-virus industry thought it was cool to have little graphics displaying viruses, then we all grew up and realised enterprise security professionals want trustworthy sensible people looking after their systems. Imagine my laughter when I … Continue reading
Joomla 1.5 ‘feature’
Whilst building a new site using Joomla 1.5 I needed to display an RSS feed icon without text, unfortunately the standard mod_syndicate module doesn’t let me save the ‘Text’ Module Parameter empty, it defaults to ‘Feed Entries’.My fix was to … Continue reading
PDFAssassin
No doubt kicked off when PDF spam started arriving in out inboxes PDFAssassin attempts to scan PDF files for ‘spammyness’ and adds the Spam Assissin score; http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfassassin/
x-authentication-warning
Had an issue today with spam filters blocking legit emails and it turns out that it was because the sender was spoofing the ‘from’ address. I suspect this is common when web based apps get http servers like Apache to … Continue reading
Launching ClearEmail EDM
We soft launched a new service this week, ClearEmail EDM ‘Outbound Email Campaign Management’. This service complements our inbound email filtering and content control (which also has outbound mail control). Our one paragraph description goes like this;
India outsourcing…
I was talking to a client yesterday and a rather unexpected nugget of information surfaced, their Indian office out sources parts of their IT to Australia. We all talk about out sourcing TO India but it seems the tide is … Continue reading
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DSPAM
I’ve been doing my bi-annual review of the anti-spam and anti-virus market place and completely missed DSPAM until Mike from Tall Emu (the Online-Armor people) sent me the link. After a couple of hours research and spotting that local firm … Continue reading
Netscape browser dies…
I remember when Netscape started up in 1994, I’d just moved to the USA to help setup Dr Solomon’s the anti-virus company. I remember Mosaic that preceded it and I now use Firefox and Safari. It seems a shame that … Continue reading
Podcast Maker
In the endless quest for systems that make life easier I came across Podcast Maker for Apple OSX today. It’s BRILLIANT!, it’s a classic example of a software application that simplifies a ‘manual’ process. Check it out, you’ll be surprised.
Flash 9 and the MP4 video format
Looking for a way of delivering .mp4 video on a web site I went to one of the best resources for Flash video online and discovered that Flash 9 will handle MP4′s. This makes life very easy if you’re looking … Continue reading
pingg.com
I met an interesting guy by the name of Lorien Gabel when I was at MessageLabs, he’s just launched a new online venture, Pingg, TechCrunch say it’s “Invitations Done Right”. The invites they send look very smart, which after all … Continue reading
Amazing…
I often wonder who makes commercials like these, and their can’t be many people like this capable of producing them!
I’m recommending Basecamp….
Having used Basecamp for project managing client projects for a couple of years now I’ve decided to recommend it via their affiliate program; Use this referral code: 6TJ4P239E or this url to sign-up to Basecamp saves me a few bucks … Continue reading
Microsoft Yahoo!
Microsoft’s unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo! looks to me like an admission that their (MS) online business is not going to plan. I can’t see Google being threatened by the union of two companies who are failing to make a … Continue reading
Solar powered George Bush
Wonderful YouTube video, solar powered walking machine.
Current valid CSS page layouts
When looking around for current methods for 3 column CSS web page layouts I came across this page on a site which has a great collection of valid CSS layouts.