I just read some of the comments to the blog and want to thank you for some kind comments. I am not a techy type person but an average user who struggles with technology. My sons are 17 and 18 are are much more comfortable and our network manager Greg is an old hand at this. Just so you all know, this blog does not accept any monetary compensation and it just a way for me to share some of the challenges of the WiFi world, get some advice out there and share some hints along the way. Some of the content may be simplistic for the integrators but it is just my way to reach out and share some lessons along the way. Anyway, thanks for the support- like Julie(Julie & Julia)- I did not know anyone was reading :)
It is now the one year anniversary of my AT&T plan on my iphone and I am thinking about the things that make my life easier. I thought I would share some things that friends have taught me and some discoveries of my own in migrating to the iphone and some applications that I used to move to the device:
1: G-Mail: I migrated my business e-mail to google. You can move your company domain to google and then use their g-mail to host your domain. It really works great. Our old e-mail server used microsoft exchange. I get a lot of attachments with huge files. I have had no major outage and it holds 10 gigs in my account. I would recommend it without hesitation. I also use imap so that my e-mail is synched on my iphone account. it is so easy to use- it has saved my hours compared to outlook constantly crashing under the weight of 3 gigs of messages- sorry microsoft- I love you living in Seattle but I got tired of rebooting my computer.
2: Webmail: I never thought I would say it- I now use webmail exclusively. The g-mail caches all the e-mail addresses of people not matter where you are. A few other great features: labels, calendar, calendar invites, color categories.
3: igoogle: If you have not tried it - check it out- you can
customize your own google page with your own heading, your favorites
and a bunch of other cools tools.
4: Go to meeting: If you have not checked it out- go to meeting
offers you the ability to host a meeting and let people log onto your
computer. It also includes unlimited conference calls all for around
$600 per year. I had one conference call that cost me $80.00 for one
hour. Now I get unlimited for the whole year. It is an incredible deal.
5: Constant Contact: Most of my BroadbandXpress customers are
great and I do not keep in touch enough. For those of you that have a
steady customer base- for $75.00 a month you can send them customized
newsletters. If they do not want to be on the list- they opt out and
constant contact removed them from your list.
6: Speedtest.net: Started by the founder of speakeasy-
this application provides the up and down speed of your network
connection plus the ping. You can see how your network compares to the
fastest. It is sometimes a shock when I test my network and the speed
sucks. I am on my comcast connection today and it really sucks at 5
megs down and 3 megs up- normally it is 25 megs down so I can be a
little patient. The AT&T speed is typically 1000 kbps down/250 kbps
up and a very bad 400 ms on the ping.
7: itunes podcasts: If you have an itune- it really sucks
you in to subscribe to the podcasts- my favorites are this week in
technology(twit), cranky Geaks and the bbc news. Podcast setting are a
little bit tricky at first but I tunes makes it pretty easy.
Hope some of this is useful!
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