Web CEO

Are you interested in finding out how search engines are ranking your website? How about your competitors? If you have the time and energy to do a little search engine snooping or you just don't feel like paying a company for search engine optimization then I would suggest starting with a product like Web CEO. There is a learning curve to this product but hey it's free for the basic version, and trust me the basic version gives you a ton of information.

Verizon is getting a Curve-like Blackberry

Woohoo! Just what I have been waiting for...

http://tinyurl.com/2ykyom

Blackberry or Treo?

I get asked this question all the time! My recommendation is always Blackberry. Since the inception of the Palm Treo, the handhelds have always had issues, the major one being they reset themselves quite often. You would think by now Palm would have worked those issues out, but no
such luck. The newer Treo 700 and Treo 680 handhelds have just as many issues as the previous models. Most clients I talk with who own a Treo are on their 2 or 3 hanheld because they have to keep getting them replaced. Save yourself the headaches and get a Blackberry 8830 or 8300. Or you could bunk the standards and get the ultra cool iPhone.

Oh almost forgot, did you know Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry, are giving you money for your old handheld if you buy a new Blackberry? Check it out!

Delay sending messeges in Outlook

Set Email to Send at a Later Time

Do you often want to or need to compose an email message in Outlook at a certain time, but do not want to actually send it until a different time or date? One way is to compose the email and save it as a draft, but many times the email may be forgotten about. However, Microsoft Outlook includes an easy way send an email message at a later time or date without you having to remember to send it yourself.

1. After composing the email message, click the Options button in the email's Advanced Toolbar.
2. In the Message Options dialog box, check the check box next to Do not deliver before.
3. Use the drop down menus that are next to Do not deliver before to select the date and time you want the email message to send.
4. After you have selected the date and time to send the email message, click Close.
5. Finally, Send your email message to save it until it is designated to send automatically.

Bonus Tip:
Before you perform this procedure for the first time, test it by sending an email message to yourself to make sure that Outlook sends the email message when it is supposed to.

Verizon Wireless card built-in on Dell notebooks

Verizon is running a sweet deal right now to boost the sale of internal BroadbandAccess cards on certain Dell notebooks. If you sign up for a new 2 year contract you get $100 back in a mail in rebate.

Check out www.dell.com/verizonwireless for more details.

Use Gmail for your own domain

Why would you be interested in Google Apps, or for that matter what is Google Apps? Google has lumped it's online applications together in a service called Google Apps. Here is a link which lays out exactly what Google Apps includes...click here.

Some of you are already familiar with Gmail, but what most of you probably do not realize is that you can now use Gmail with your own domain email. So if you have firstname@yourname.com for an email address you can now have Google host your email instead of your current website hosting company. Note: You still keep your current website hosting company, you will just be using Gmail for email instead of your web hosting company's webmail. For instance I use 1and1.com to host my personal domain website, but I use Gmail to host my email for my personal domain name. So I still pay 1and1 monthly to host may website, but I do not use their email services. Why would you want to do that? Mainly because of the limitations of most web hosting web mail functionality...

• The biggest reason I can see is the size of the mailbox. With Gmail you get 2Gb of space...that's a lot bigger than you will find at most web hosting companies.
• Gmail is extremely fast unlike some other web mail I have seen and used.
• Gmail has integrated chat with other Gmail users, including other users of your domain, comes in handy in a team environment.
• With Gmail you can create up to 100 users, all for free.
• Going back to the team environment again...with Google Calendar you can share calendars online which is great for teams.

So if you want to use Google Apps to host your email...you can click here to signup. You do have to have a regular Gmail account or Google Services account in order to get your domain's email hosted by Google. There is a link on the sign up page to do so. You can sign up for Google Apps and use your existing domain name or you can register a new domain name using Google for $10. The $10 domain registration fee is the only cost to use Google Apps, but if you already have a domain then there isn't any out of pocket costs. I should mention there is a Premier version of Google Apps which costs $50/per user/per year.

Very cool Real Estate site

Check out www.terabitz.com for a unique spin on the local real estate market.

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