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Archive for March, 2008
Google Apps For Domains Migration
Mar 24th
At work we’d been kicking around a migration from our IMAP/SMTP hosted email service for a good while now. Our provider was top notch, but we wanted shared calendars & workspaces too, so we needed to move on. We could have deployed something like Exchange internally, but that means buying in another server, Windows, Exchange, SharePoint and anti-virus software, getting it all put together, and then spending the time maintaining it and fixing it when it breaks. Our engineering resources are a) pretty much fully committed and b) not Windows specialists, so we’d probably end up subbing it out to a contractor. More >
I’m back to using FeedDemon
Mar 21st
Like many I read a lot of web sites. Back in the day almost the first thing I did every morning when I sat at my PC was go in turn to The Register, Slashdot, Dilbert, ENN, BBC News, ZDNet and about a dozen more to get my daily fix.
RSS was a lifesaver for me. I went out and bought FeedDemon and for a time I was happy. It would fetch all the headlines for me and display them in a list. I could click on the ones that interested me and they’d open up in the built-in browser, and I could More >
