Why I Love My Google Gmail Email
First off, Gmail is Ferrari Hot! And let me tell everyone up front that by having a Gmail account has made my life much easier, increased my productivity, helped me to be more organized, and faster on the road. One of the aspects about dealing with numerous customers in both B2B and B2C industries are in many cases the requirements to have an email address with the domain name I am working with at the time.
As a business representative for our clients, I need to sometimes make contact with various client related business interests, and having a email address with that customer's domain name is advantageous for representing the company to the third party. However, with so many email addresses to check on a regular basis, it becomes difficult to stay on top of all the communications items. This is where the Gmail email system comes in handy big time. What I do is forward my emails from all my other accounts into a central Gmail address location. This way, I don't have to go in and check my emails at all my other email addresses. But, you say, "I can forward my emails to any location that I want." Yes you may be able to do that, but Gmail offers a feature that also allows you to respond as though it is coming from the other email address. You can also send emails through POP SMTP from another email account or using the IMAP function, import old emails from other accounts and synchronize all emails with Outlook or other email programs running on multiple computers at the same time. Here are some of the various mail clients along with the instructions on how to configure them for Gmail. Sign up for a free Gmail account.
- Apple Mail 3.0
- Outlook Express
- Outlook 2002
- Outlook 2003 (see our animated demo)
- Outlook 2007
- Thunderbird 2.0
- Windows Mail
- Other
Read about more things you can do with Gmail.
Google Apps and Gmail For Any Business
Take the next step for your business organization with Google. Use the Gmail interface software engine via Google Apps for your domain name. One of the features that Google Apps has for any company is to use Google's Email servers to handle your daily email requirements for your company. There are two levels of service provided by Google. One is the free and provides over 7 GB (and counting) of email storage for each email account. The other is $50 per user per year and provides 25 GB of email storage for each account. Both the standard free edition and the paid premier edition come with full administrator control panels for a central IT person or even a non IT person to set up new accounts and control access to established accounts. Just like in the Gmail accounts online, users can access their accounts through the online control panel, IMAP, and POP SMTP email client settings.
I am convinced that Google Security for your Emails are better than any security at any company. Read the past article on Cloud Computing The Google Way to understand the reasoning behind my statement that Google is more secure than even your company. I know that may come as a very bold statement to some, but I encourage you to read the article and think about the economy of scale and understanding of their security measures in place, along with independent security audits that are conducted regularly.
The Gmail Email Overview
Gmail offers entire organizations and businesses personalized email addresses like jsmith@yourdomain.com. Gmail comes with helpful features to make email more useful, like award-winning spam and virus filtering, up to 25 GB of storage per account, powerful search to find messages as fast as you can search the web, and instant messaging built right in. The Gmail web application is accessible from anywhere, and you can even sign in from your mobile phone. Or if you prefer, you can access email from your favorite mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird using POP or IMAP at no additional cost.
Why switch to Gmail Google Apps for your domain name? There are many reasons to do it, but two of the top reasons in my book would be that the storage capacity is simply enormous, and you never have to throw any emails away. Remember, most companies are using their website servers also as their email servers. This means they are limited by how much data they can store online in the email portion before things have to get purged. Most companies provide their employees with significantly less email storage area, and what happens many times is their email boxes fill up and need to be emptied to make room for new emails. Other times, a main IT person or administrator is constantly going into the email accounts and purging past emails to make room for more. Whereas with Google Gmail Apps, users have a huge storage area which are unlikely to get filled up except by the super power huge file receivers of email information, and even then, I imagine that Google would just add more capacity for specific power hungry email users.
By-the-way, I am talking from first hand experience on both the free Gmail email available to anyone online and Google Apps for a domain name, with a private label email address using the Gmail email software to drive it. Using the Gmail Google Apps is like driving a Ferrari very very fast. And you know what? Others wish they had one too. Maybe someday.
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PDF Documents For Your Business
PDF File Formats Have Become The De Facto Standard For Document Viewing and Printing TodayBrochures, color pamphlets, sales literature, marketing materials, manuals, technical documents, and even website pages are being converted to PDF documents for B2B and B2C businesses around the globe.
While, companies could invest hundreds of dollars for a PDF converter, there are some great softwares available for free. Many of these PDF converters can function both on the Apple Mac as well as the Microsoft PC system.
Why would anyone need a PDF file instead of a Microsoft Word file? Let's say you have a customer on the other side of the globe that needs information about your product or service and you only have it available in a Microsoft Word format. This might sound like no big deal to you, the customer can just open it using their Microsoft Word program. However, this is a totally wrong assumption. You might be talking to an engineer or customer that does not readily have the Microsoft Word program or compatible version available to them on the networked computer at their facility. Do you really want to make it difficult for them to be able to open a 100 page manual in a Microsoft Word document? No way!
With a PDF document, it can be read online with Internet Explorer, Firefox, or just about any Web browser with the Acrobat Reader plug-in available from Adobe. Or download the PDF file online to the local computer for future reference. Most Web browsers are set up to be able to open PDF files directly in the browser window itself. Even, Apple Mac can read it using available programs. Adobe has a free stand alone Acrobat Reader program available for just about every type of operating system available. They have a version for Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux, and even for the Mobile version operating systems. It is also available in multiple languages.
Adobe has a number of patents covering the technology used in the creation of the Portable Document Format (PDF) Specification. In the interest of promoting the PDF format for information exchange, Adobe has made it so that anyone may create applications that read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems. Source Wikipedia
When it comes to creating and publishing technical documents, many companies are using Adobe Acrobat Professional in publishing and collaboration between engineers, planners, and designers on the various design specifications for a wide range of projects. A multitude of companies and fields are using Acrobat Professional; from computer engineering firms, mechanical engineering and design companies, to communications companies and their engineers designing and documenting fiber-optic plant records, infrastructures, and Circuit Layout Records for city wide documentation. Because of the ability for different engineers and technical people to be able to add comments and corrections to the documents, the designers can actively keep track of the various changes and comments for a particular project.
While most businesses may not need this type of power for the PDF documents, it is nice to know there are options available for free to convert all types of documents to PDF file format. Read about some of the Free PDF Converter Programs available for both converting and combining all Microsoft documents into PDF file format. These types of PDF writing programs function on both Microsoft and Apple Mac software operating systems. Note: Mac has the feature of being able to save as a PDF file from the print menu and even email it directly to someone or yourself.
So, make it easy for your sales and customer service departments to share the technical and marketing material to your customers in a PDF file format today. Note, the documents can be made available online or in a secure directory that has a user name and is password protected. This requires some webmaster work to create secure online directories.
Do you need help with your website? Professional Web Services can help organize your PDF files and make them available on the Internet the way you want. Additionally, PDF files can also be found in the search engine results pages if you want. The option is yours.
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The Military HAARP Technology
Technology In The News
Some interesting happenings in the world of technology, physics, and government experiments.
The Military HAARP
What Is The HAARP? High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
By: James A. Warholic, President of Professional Web Services, Inc.
What some might think is just a wild technology and an unbelievable story, is in fact based on some interesting research activities going on up in Alaska and other places.
Background Information
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Some interesting happenings in the world of technology, physics, and government experiments.
The Military HAARP
What Is The HAARP? High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
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What some might think is just a wild technology and an unbelievable story, is in fact based on some interesting research activities going on up in Alaska and other places.
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The Fabric Of The Internet Is Held Together By Every Single Computer Hooked Up Online.
By: James A. Warholic
What holds the rest of the world together and how is it accomplished?
Heat Staking The World Together
Metal and Plastic Heat Staking
By: James A. Warholic
Ever see the insides of a cell phone and wonder how it is assembled? How about the small metal battery compartments inside hi-tech toys. What about the miniature memory modules that go in digital cameras. Then there are the assembly of keyboards, laptop computers, cordless phones, SIMM cards, PCMCIA card modules, automotive parts, and even the remote controls are assembled with what is known as Heat Staking.
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Heat Staking The World Together
Metal and Plastic Heat Staking
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Ever see the insides of a cell phone and wonder how it is assembled? How about the small metal battery compartments inside hi-tech toys. What about the miniature memory modules that go in digital cameras. Then there are the assembly of keyboards, laptop computers, cordless phones, SIMM cards, PCMCIA card modules, automotive parts, and even the remote controls are assembled with what is known as Heat Staking.
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Breakthrough Technology Professional Videos At Affordable Price
It truly is amazing at how quickly technology is changing.
Now you can put together some cool and professional looking business presentation videos using some professional programs for an affordable price. All it takes is some time.
In a recent newsletter I subscribe to was a great idea for marketing any business online using this new video technology from Serious Magic. Check out demos
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"Gary North's Reality Check"
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"Gary North's Reality Check"
Subject: Reality Check - Guerilla Videos As A Side Business
Gary North's REALITY CHECK
Issue 474 August 19, 2005
GUERILLA VIDEOS AS A SIDE BUSINESS
If you are ignoring the video revolution, it's costing
you money. You are watching the parade go by.
It's time to get into the parade.
The digital communications revolution is real. It is
making things possible that were not possible before. It
is doing this in three ways: (1) innovative technology; (2)
radical cost-cutting; (3) cheap distribution on-line.
We all have had our lives changed by e-mail. The Web
is changing the way we shop and buy and learn. But most of
what influences us is text-based: words on a screen or
maybe on paper (print-outs).
Audio has been limited mainly to file-swapping of
music. File-swapping is a huge market, but it's mainly for
downloading now and listening later. Now the iPod
phenomenon is upon us. This is going to undermine
commercial radio. The Federal Communications Commission
will wind up regulating an essentially empty bag. That is
very good news.
Now web-based video is beginning to fly. But it's
more like a bi-plane in King Kong than a jet in Top Gun.
Yet developments here are speeding up. On the
production technology side of it, new editing programs are
making possible highly sophisticated production for
essentially no money. Time, yes, but no money to speak of.
On the distribution side is broadband. It's still
overpriced. But competition is going to have its way.
Let me show you something that I find remarkable.
Spend a few minutes looking at a show produced by the Wall
Street Journal Online. It's a technology show. It covers
a great new product. I have been waiting 25 years for this
product. It's here. It's free. At last!
If you have a pair of speakers connected to your
computer, click here and watch the show. Then I'll discuss
the implications for you, personally, of what you have
seen. (If you have no speakers, at least click through and
spend 60 seconds watching the video.)
http://shurl.org/evernote
THE VIDEO REVOLUTION
This "Personal Technology" show is really pretty good.
Here are a pair of interviewers interviewing a man with
some useful information about a highly useful piece of
software. For me, the information was vital.
The video screen is small. That's a broadband issue.
As costs fall, screen size will get larger. But for
communicating new information, a small screen is fine.
Compared to audio or text, video is a quantum leap ahead.
Here's the kicker. As you watched the video, you got
the sense of watching a professionally produced, live-
action studio production. It looks like a CNN production.
It looks good enough for the Wall Street Journal.
I am convinced that the whole thing was done with a
$300 piece of software. That's because I own that
software, and I can do everything you saw on screen.
If they used anything more expensive, then they got
stung.
What tipped me off was the logo: "Personal
Technology." It looks exactly like the logos that I can
create.
But what about a camera? Isn't that a bundle of
money? Only if $600 is a bundle of money. I can produce a
video that you cannot distinguish from what you saw on-
screen with my Panasonic PV-GS150, which by now is probably
obsolete. It's two months old.
It's a 3 CCD camera, which means that colors are
sharper because each primary color has its own chip. It's
2.3 megapixels, which means the image is crisp, even for a
DVD. For a web broadcast, it's overkill.
It has a separate input jack for an external
microphone, which is an essential feature for producing a
professional-looking amateur video. If you pay $25 to $50
for a lavaliere mic that clips onto your tie, that's really
all you need. (I know people who spend more on a tie than
I spent on a mic.)
What about lighting? That can be done for $500 if
you're a big spender, or $100 if you're not. You can use
florescent lights if you buy color-balanced bulbs and use
an electronic ballast (plug-in). Use two units with two
bulbs each. This cuts down on the shadows. It also
increases the signal-to-noise ratio: clarity. Here's how:
http://shurl.org/cheaplights
http://shurl.org/videobulbs
But what about a fancy studio? It's all digital. I
have a green plastic drape tacked to the wall behind me.
The studio background is graphically generated. I have
several studios to choose from.
The program I use is called Visual Communicator Pro 2.
It really is a powerful tool. They also sell a $40 DVD
(computer DVD-only) that shows you more than you need to
know about how to use the program. The company has created
a series of representative demos for various groups:
business, education, government. Churches can use this
tool. Take a look at what a couple of these low-budget
productions look like. It really is astounding.
http://shurl.org/vcdemos
Let me show you a nice example of what can be done
with this technology. Victor Urbach has produced a video
that is impressive. At first, it's animated. But when you
get to the main section, it's real. Sort of. But the
background isn't. This is one man standing in front of a
video camera. Take a look:
http://shurl.org/urbach
His video is really valuable if you're in direct mail.
It shows how to get people to open a solicitation letter.
The images are not quite right. At times, he looks
like he is in a shrunken room. But he'll get it right.
A SIDE BUSINESS
Two decades ago, Bill Myers rented a video camera and
produced one video. He recorded his presentation in his
28-foot used trailer at the end of a 7-mile dirt road. He
would have used his house as a studio, except a tornado had
blown it away a few months earlier. He advertised his tape
with a cheap classified ad. When it was all over, he
pulled in more than $200,000. Then he moved out of his
trailer.
He still teaches people how to do this sort of thing.
He has a site devoted to it.
www.bmyers.com
I found out about Visual Communicator on his site. He
sells a low-cost DVD on how to produce your own "guerilla
video" DVDs.
http://shurl.org/dvd
Google is now accepting how-to videos from people like
you. Google will post them, take money from sales, keep a
reasonable commission, and send you the rest. I have a
whole list of videos that I intend to shoot in the next six
months. Each one offers the potential of generating a
little stream of income.
https://upload.video.google.com
These guys are marketing geniuses. Why not piggyback
on their genius and their web-search technology?
THINK OF PROJECTS
Do you know of some out-of-the way place where you
know your way around? Shoot a video. Sell it on-line
through Google.
Do you have some specialized knowledge of how to do
something? Hobby? Business? Craftsmanship? Shoot a
video and sell it.
Think of Myers. He holds a seminar and gets people to
pay to attend. Then he puts it on 10 DVDs and sells the
set for $595.
Most people know the details of how to do something
unique. They think, "everyone knows how to do this." In
fact, hardly anyone knows how. There are always people who
want to learn how. They will pay to find out how.
The problem has been to find distribution. I think
Google will solve this problem. At least for some
videographers, it will.
THE SHOELACE PROBLEM
Let me offer you a challenge. Tell someone how to tie
a shoelace. Don't show him. Tell him. Words only.
It's not easy. It's close to impossible. If you
wrote a manual on this, it would look like a 1982 manual on
how to program a VCR to record a show when you were not
home. It was easier to stay home.
Shoot a video. It's easy. As you shoot it, narrate
what the person is seeing on-screen. You don't need a
manual.
My point is this: lots of tasks in this life are the
equivalent of tying a shoelace. Manuals are useless. You
have to see it being done. A DVD that you can produce from
a digital master and send by UPS for $4, total, can be sold
for $19.95, plus shipping & handling.
It can be sold on a website as a download.
It can be sold through Google.
It can be given away. The fact that you mention your
website or blogsite at the beginning and the end and even
in between won't hurt.
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CONCLUSION
You can do this. If you don't want to be on camera,
just aim the camera at whatever it is that you think will
interest a viewer. Narrate what you see as you shoot the
video. Or insert it as a voice-over later.
If you provide useful information, nobody cares if
it's not fancy.
If you can produce something as good as the "Personal
Technology" show, you don't need to get any better.
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Subject: Reality Check - Guerilla Videos As A Side Business
Gary North's REALITY CHECK
Issue 474 August 19, 2005
GUERILLA VIDEOS AS A SIDE BUSINESS
If you are ignoring the video revolution, it's costing
you money. You are watching the parade go by.
It's time to get into the parade.
The digital communications revolution is real. It is
making things possible that were not possible before. It
is doing this in three ways: (1) innovative technology; (2)
radical cost-cutting; (3) cheap distribution on-line.
We all have had our lives changed by e-mail. The Web
is changing the way we shop and buy and learn. But most of
what influences us is text-based: words on a screen or
maybe on paper (print-outs).
Audio has been limited mainly to file-swapping of
music. File-swapping is a huge market, but it's mainly for
downloading now and listening later. Now the iPod
phenomenon is upon us. This is going to undermine
commercial radio. The Federal Communications Commission
will wind up regulating an essentially empty bag. That is
very good news.
Now web-based video is beginning to fly. But it's
more like a bi-plane in King Kong than a jet in Top Gun.
Yet developments here are speeding up. On the
production technology side of it, new editing programs are
making possible highly sophisticated production for
essentially no money. Time, yes, but no money to speak of.
On the distribution side is broadband. It's still
overpriced. But competition is going to have its way.
Let me show you something that I find remarkable.
Spend a few minutes looking at a show produced by the Wall
Street Journal Online. It's a technology show. It covers
a great new product. I have been waiting 25 years for this
product. It's here. It's free. At last!
If you have a pair of speakers connected to your
computer, click here and watch the show. Then I'll discuss
the implications for you, personally, of what you have
seen. (If you have no speakers, at least click through and
spend 60 seconds watching the video.)
http://shurl.org/evernote
THE VIDEO REVOLUTION
This "Personal Technology" show is really pretty good.
Here are a pair of interviewers interviewing a man with
some useful information about a highly useful piece of
software. For me, the information was vital.
The video screen is small. That's a broadband issue.
As costs fall, screen size will get larger. But for
communicating new information, a small screen is fine.
Compared to audio or text, video is a quantum leap ahead.
Here's the kicker. As you watched the video, you got
the sense of watching a professionally produced, live-
action studio production. It looks like a CNN production.
It looks good enough for the Wall Street Journal.
I am convinced that the whole thing was done with a
$300 piece of software. That's because I own that
software, and I can do everything you saw on screen.
If they used anything more expensive, then they got
stung.
What tipped me off was the logo: "Personal
Technology." It looks exactly like the logos that I can
create.
But what about a camera? Isn't that a bundle of
money? Only if $600 is a bundle of money. I can produce a
video that you cannot distinguish from what you saw on-
screen with my Panasonic PV-GS150, which by now is probably
obsolete. It's two months old.
It's a 3 CCD camera, which means that colors are
sharper because each primary color has its own chip. It's
2.3 megapixels, which means the image is crisp, even for a
DVD. For a web broadcast, it's overkill.
It has a separate input jack for an external
microphone, which is an essential feature for producing a
professional-looking amateur video. If you pay $25 to $50
for a lavaliere mic that clips onto your tie, that's really
all you need. (I know people who spend more on a tie than
I spent on a mic.)
What about lighting? That can be done for $500 if
you're a big spender, or $100 if you're not. You can use
florescent lights if you buy color-balanced bulbs and use
an electronic ballast (plug-in). Use two units with two
bulbs each. This cuts down on the shadows. It also
increases the signal-to-noise ratio: clarity. Here's how:
http://shurl.org/cheaplights
http://shurl.org/videobulbs
But what about a fancy studio? It's all digital. I
have a green plastic drape tacked to the wall behind me.
The studio background is graphically generated. I have
several studios to choose from.
The program I use is called Visual Communicator Pro 2.
It really is a powerful tool. They also sell a $40 DVD
(computer DVD-only) that shows you more than you need to
know about how to use the program. The company has created
a series of representative demos for various groups:
business, education, government. Churches can use this
tool. Take a look at what a couple of these low-budget
productions look like. It really is astounding.
http://shurl.org/vcdemos
Let me show you a nice example of what can be done
with this technology. Victor Urbach has produced a video
that is impressive. At first, it's animated. But when you
get to the main section, it's real. Sort of. But the
background isn't. This is one man standing in front of a
video camera. Take a look:
http://shurl.org/urbach
His video is really valuable if you're in direct mail.
It shows how to get people to open a solicitation letter.
The images are not quite right. At times, he looks
like he is in a shrunken room. But he'll get it right.
A SIDE BUSINESS
Two decades ago, Bill Myers rented a video camera and
produced one video. He recorded his presentation in his
28-foot used trailer at the end of a 7-mile dirt road. He
would have used his house as a studio, except a tornado had
blown it away a few months earlier. He advertised his tape
with a cheap classified ad. When it was all over, he
pulled in more than $200,000. Then he moved out of his
trailer.
He still teaches people how to do this sort of thing.
He has a site devoted to it.
www.bmyers.com
I found out about Visual Communicator on his site. He
sells a low-cost DVD on how to produce your own "guerilla
video" DVDs.
http://shurl.org/dvd
Google is now accepting how-to videos from people like
you. Google will post them, take money from sales, keep a
reasonable commission, and send you the rest. I have a
whole list of videos that I intend to shoot in the next six
months. Each one offers the potential of generating a
little stream of income.
https://upload.video.google.com
These guys are marketing geniuses. Why not piggyback
on their genius and their web-search technology?
THINK OF PROJECTS
Do you know of some out-of-the way place where you
know your way around? Shoot a video. Sell it on-line
through Google.
Do you have some specialized knowledge of how to do
something? Hobby? Business? Craftsmanship? Shoot a
video and sell it.
Think of Myers. He holds a seminar and gets people to
pay to attend. Then he puts it on 10 DVDs and sells the
set for $595.
Most people know the details of how to do something
unique. They think, "everyone knows how to do this." In
fact, hardly anyone knows how. There are always people who
want to learn how. They will pay to find out how.
The problem has been to find distribution. I think
Google will solve this problem. At least for some
videographers, it will.
THE SHOELACE PROBLEM
Let me offer you a challenge. Tell someone how to tie
a shoelace. Don't show him. Tell him. Words only.
It's not easy. It's close to impossible. If you
wrote a manual on this, it would look like a 1982 manual on
how to program a VCR to record a show when you were not
home. It was easier to stay home.
Shoot a video. It's easy. As you shoot it, narrate
what the person is seeing on-screen. You don't need a
manual.
My point is this: lots of tasks in this life are the
equivalent of tying a shoelace. Manuals are useless. You
have to see it being done. A DVD that you can produce from
a digital master and send by UPS for $4, total, can be sold
for $19.95, plus shipping & handling.
It can be sold on a website as a download.
It can be sold through Google.
It can be given away. The fact that you mention your
website or blogsite at the beginning and the end and even
in between won't hurt.
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CONCLUSION
You can do this. If you don't want to be on camera,
just aim the camera at whatever it is that you think will
interest a viewer. Narrate what you see as you shoot the
video. Or insert it as a voice-over later.
If you provide useful information, nobody cares if
it's not fancy.
If you can produce something as good as the "Personal
Technology" show, you don't need to get any better.
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