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Install the android update software from here

In order for you and your family to enjoy the functions and features of your WHS you will need to add user accounts for them to access the server’s resources. This will require you to set up a user/password on their computer and a matching user/password on the server. By default the server requires a strong password which consists of eight characters in length and three of the following: UPPERCASE, lowercase, numbers, and special characters. The special characters are limited to the characters on the top row of your keyboard.

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Norman De Bono Sun Media

May 14, 2008

Aroma Restaurant in London is balancing old-world European charm with 21st-century technology.

Felipe Gomes of Aroma Restaurant stands in his new wine cellar lounge, which will be opening soon.(SUSAN BRADNAM/Sun Media file photo)

The elegant downtown restaurant is offering diners an opportunity to share a meal with family and friends around the world, using video-conferencing technology to connect people through the Internet over dinner or lunch.

At the same time, owner Felipe Gomes announced yesterday he will open a new lounge in his wine cellar and start offering horse-drawn carriage rides from the restaurant to Victoria Park this weekend.

“I really look to the past and the future,” said Gomes. “It is an opportunity to not just make sure the kitchen is performing well, or the food is presented well, but it is also my desire to create and share new experiences.”

The video technology is certainly new, unlike anything being done in the restaurant business today, said Gomes. He has taken one private room, used for functions, and installed a projector and screen linked to a computer and webcam.

Using Skype software, which can be downloaded free, diners in the room will be able to enjoy a meal while on the screen they will see and be able to speak with family or friends in a home anywhere in the world, as long as they also have Skype software and a computer and video card capable of handling that technology, and a webcam on their end.

“We are taking London to the world, with a dining experience,” said Gomes.

In fact, to demonstrate the new technology, Gomes linked to his sister in Portugal yesterday, literally dining with her over lunch, while never leaving London.

The idea was born when Rick Pinheiro, partner in PrimeWeb, a London technology business, celebrated his parents’ 40th wedding anniversary in March by connecting with family members in Vancouver, who set up a webcam in their home. Both families dined at the same time and they saw and spoke to each other over dinner.

“It was flawless,” Pinheiro said of the evening. “We all enjoyed it immensely. My brother (in Vancouver) was joking around with me about what I was ordering. I have never experienced webcam like I did that day.”

But Gomes is also excited about the wine cellar, having taken an old, boarded-up storage room and converted it into an intimate lounge that will seat 60 and will feature wines from around the world, he said.

“This wine cellar is Portugal, it is my heritage, it is my father sending me to the cellar to get a bottle of wine when I was a boy,” said Gomes. “Many times in London we want something different to finish the evening — a glass of wine and conversation, that is what this cellar will do.”

Norman De Bono is a Free Press business reporter.

 

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Google provides a powerful suite of web applications ranging from email and calendar to documents, chat and sites [and so much more]. For web professionals, the typical “@gmail.com” just won’t do. Thankfully, Google offers a professional version (called Google Apps) for professionals, educators, non-profits and government.

The Google Apps Standard version is the version we’ll walk through setting up and customizing to use the power of Google with our own branding. We’ll be setting up our custom domain, branding and checking out the advantages of getting yourself setup with Google Apps.

 

Google Apps

Google Apps is essentially the same services as the traditional Google services most of you are already familiar with. The advantage of it, however, is the additional advanced features and customization capabilities as well as better support, uptime reliability and storage. Some of these additional features come at a price though. You’ll pay $50 per user account if you want guaranteed uptime, support, better security and increased storage.

For many of us, Gmail and the other standard applications Google offers has been more than stable enough so I’ll only demonstrate setting up the Standard version of Google Apps, which is 100% FREE.

The Standard Edition is limited to 50 additional user accounts. If you plan on providing accounts for users and will exceed this, you’ll need to sign up for the Premier Edition.

Your Domain and Sign Up

The primary advantage to setting up Google Apps Standard edition for many of you, will be the custom domain name and ability to create additional users within your domain. If you’ve already registered a domain name of your liking, head over to the sign up for Google Apps [Standard]. If you haven’t registered a domain yet, you can do so via the signup form.

Fill out your administrator and organization information. Don’t worry, your organization can be a one man (or woman) team.

Next, you’ll create an administrator account and accept the terms and conditions (only if you agree to them!).

Verify Your Domain

You’ll need to verify that you own the domain you’ve signed up to use. You can do this by changing a CNAME record with your domain host or by uploading an HTML file. I always use the CNAME method but if you’re not familiar as to how that is done, uploading an HTML file will be easier for you.

I’ll be selecting the CNAME method for no other reason than I prefer that there isn’t a “random” HTML file sitting in my public web space.

Change CNAME

Here I’ve added the CNAME record and verified the record exists via the link shown in the previous screenshot.

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The verify methods have been changed a bit and might look more similar to this…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At this point you would add the TXT entry into your DNS record (either directly on your domain name registrar or host provider). Contact PrimeWeb if you have issues!)

 

 

 

 

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Once you’ve completed these steps, you’ll be asked if you want to go through the setup guide. This is new to me but you may find it useful. I’ll demonstrate activating the primary services and customizing them for a unique URL.

If you aren’t comfortable with editing CNAME or MX records, contact your web host with the necessary information (maybe including a link to this How-To) and they should be able to set things up for you.

Activate Your Services

The page you should see at this point is your Google Apps Dashboard. From here you can manage your domain, users, settings, etc.

If any of the services you would like to use aren’t already activated, go ahead and activate them. In this case, Email is currently not active so I’ll turn that on by clicking the “Activate email” link. The reason Email isn’t already active is because you’ll need to change the Mail Exchange records with your domain host. Mail Exchange (MX) records determine your email routing.

Please note that if you already have email setup through your domain, this will effect it. Once setup, you’re email will be accessible via your Google Apps account.

Farther down the page you’ll see a list of MX Server addresses and their related priority. This is the information we’ll need to use when editing our MX records with our domain host.

 

Here I’ve entered the three MX records for the 10, 20 and 30 priority levels (you don’t need more than that — my host actually deletes them).Once you’ve completed those steps, Google will check your MX records which could take up to 48 hours (usually finishes in less than one hour for me) and Email will be activated.

DNS and MX record changes can take time to take effect. Try to be patient and give Google Apps a little time to activate your services.

Customize Your URLs

You may have noticed you’re given some relatively ugly standard URLs for your services. These are not user friendly and you won’t want to memorize these or type them very often. So we’ll go ahead and customize them to our liking.

 

Start by clicking the title of the service you would like to customize the URL for. You’ll be taken to that service’s settings page where you’ll be able to customize its URL (among other settings).

Click “Change URL” and enter the custom subdomain you would like to use. For this example, I’ll use “cal.xmdsys.com” as it’s short and easy. Continue to the next step where you’ll be given information on changing the necessary CNAME record with your web host. This follows the same steps as used before.

To speed up this process, you can enter all of the CNAME records you plan on using ahead of time then change the settings within Google Apps.

Now you’ll be able to access all these services via your custom URL with the power of Google behind you! (The email service will display its custom URL once Google has finished activating it.)

Brand Yourself

Whether you plan on providing accounts for others on your domain or not, you may want to personalize your account even further. Others may not see this but it does add to your professionalism if they do, and let’s face it — customizing our accounts with our personal branding is actually kinda fun (maybe just me?).

Visit the Domain settings page and click the Appearance tab. From here you can upload a custom logo and customize the sign-in box colors. It’s not much, but every little bit counts.

 

I’ve uploaded a rather bland, basic logo for demonstration purposes. This is the logo that will be displayed in place of the Google logo in your (and your users) email, documents, sites and calendar accounts.

Final Thoughts

If you aren’t familiar with CNAME and MX records or how to change those with your domain host, this might be a little bit of a challenge. Don’t let it scare you away though, your hosting provider should be able to help you get this all setup.

For those of you involved in organizations larger than one or two people, Google Apps can be a real life-saver. You get the power of familiar services like Gmail with professional URLs specific to your organization and a touch of branding. The additional features and flexibility alone are worth the time needed to set this up.

If you’re a one man team, this might still be a great move to make over the traditional Gmail service and other standard Google services. When I give people my custom email address, I get noticeably different reactions as it appears much more professional. However, Gmail is my preferred email service so the combination of customizability and the power of Google, this is a must-have for me.

Small Businesses

The last point I’d like to make about Google Apps is for those of you who run small businesses. As a web developer, I’ve had many clients who want a self-hosted email solution. It takes a lot of convincing but those who I’ve convinced to make the switch to Google Apps have thanked me time and time again. They’ve never been happier and they no longer worry about uptime or other problems that come with self-hosted solutions.

 

Reference:

Jarel Remick on January 6th 2010 from : http://web.appstorm.net/how-to/setup-your-personalized-google-apps-suite/

 

 

 

 

 

If you use Outlook as your email client, you might want to schedule how often it checks for new messages. Today we show you how to schedule how often auto send/receive occurs.

If you’re busy during the day and need to keep up with your emails, you might want want Outlook to check for new messages every few minutes. Here we’ll show how to schedule it in Office 2010, 2007, and 2003 for a busy inbox where you want to keep on top of your important emails.

Outlook 2010

To schedule Auto Send/Receive in Outlook 2010, click on the File tab then Options.

The Outlook Options window opens…click on Advanced and scroll down to Send and receive and click on the Send/Receive button.

In the Send/Receive Groups window under Setting for group “All Accounts” check the boxSchedule an automatic send/receive every…minutes. It is set to 30 minutes by default and you can change the minutes to whatever you want it to be. If you’re busy and want to keep up with your messages you can go as low as every one minute.

You can also get to the Send/Receive groups by selecting Send/Receive tab on the Ribbon and then Define Send/Receive Groups.

Outlook 2007

To select the send/receive time intervals in Outlook 2007, open Outlook and click on Tools \ Options.

Click on the Mail Setup tab, check the box next to Send immediately when connected then the Send/Receive button.

Now change the schedule to automatically send/receive.

You can also access the Send/Receive Groups section by going to Send/Receive > Send/Receive Settings and Define Send/Receive Groups.

Outlook 2003

In Outlook 2003 click on Tool \ Options…

Click on the Mail Setup tab then check Send immediately when connected, then the Send/receive button.

Then set the amount of time between send/receive attempts.

If you live out of Microsoft Outlook and want to keep up with messages, setting the automatic send/receive minutes will keep you up to date.

Reference: How-to Geek

 

Raph note: Do not go less than 5 minutes in frequency! If the time is too short and the servers haven’t finished communicating to your computer, the pop server can error out and cause you bigger issues!!