Archive for November, 2009

Backing Up

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 by Web1

Anybody who has ever lost any work done on the computer due to a crash (or any other reason) will understand the importance of backing up.

Just imagine you’ve had your laptop for 2 years. You’ve done all of your accounts, proposals, research documents and alot of other valuable work on it, and have saved it all on the hard drive. Now, just imagine your despair when the hard drive fails, or worse, the laptop is stolen and you’ve never done a backup.

It would almost be the end of the world. So as we say at Web One Design Studio; Backup, Backup, Backup!!

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FREE Laptops!!

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 by Web1

Free Sony Ericsson Laptop Hoax

Free Sony Ericsson Laptop Hoax

You may have already received a copy of the email hoax that promises a FREE Ericsson Laptop for simply forwarding the email to your friends.

This is a hoax that has been circulated over the Internet for many years. Sony Ericsson don’t give away laptops (it’s not how they make their money). And the model numbers mentioned in the email are actually that of discontinued mobile phones (as this hoax originated as a FREE mobile phone giveaway).

And to top it off there is a new version of this hoax email that now claims you can get a free Sony Vaio laptop by forwarding the email to 20 people.

The idea is to cause congestion to mail servers with all of the extra emails flying around and to waste people’s time in sending it.

Small things amuse small minds!

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Business Email Addresses

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 by Web1

As any Internet user is aware, email is one of the most prominent forms of contact in today’s world. The average office worker would probably send more emails in a day than make phone calls.

And one the most common and problematic issues that comes with email addresses for business is using the “free” email accounts provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

For example: ISP1 include 5 email accounts with the provision of Internet services such as an ADSL (or broadband) account. Business A subscribes to the ISP1 service and sets up the 5 accounts for staff members to use and the main email contact address for the business.

The first point to be aware of is that this does not send a professional message (or image) about the online business to Business A’s customers but what happens if Business A, who has been using and promoting these email addresses for years, decides to change ISP (for whatever reason)?

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