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One more Reason to Migrate to Google Apps

The migration of your company's email services to Google Apps for your Domain has just become, much easier.

Now that Google has activated IMAP connections to Gmail, you can now access both an MS Exchange, POP, or other email service as the same time as Gmail, using a standard email client (i.e. Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.).

With both connections open, simply drag your email into your IMAP connected Gmail mailbox.

Learn more at:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/export-outlook-email-to-gmail-pst-backup/1938/

Content Management Systems

A common problem that clients have had with most web developers, is the cost of site maintenance. With the developer charging the client over-and-over for effectively the same function "updating".

Any website, be it a full online storefront to a simple informative/brochure type web precence can benefit from Content Management Systems, also known as CMS.

Many times existing and free technologies can prove to be the most effective for a particular situation. For instance, this website it 90% powered by the free services of Blogger.com. Making use of Google's Blogger APIs and RSS feeds, this website rarely requires someone with knowledge of HTML or scripting.

Using Blogger to maintain most of the content, allows quick, inexpensive, and effective maintenance of our website. Additionally, using an external service provided like Blogger provides one more layer of data backup.

There are many tools and services that are available on the Internet that could make your online precence for effective and cheaper!