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Apple is Target Practise for mail2web Mobile Email

Jeremy Adams — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:05:24 +0000

When it comes to competing with heavy weights like Apple, you’ve got to have a real ringer at your back. Luck aside, mail2web Mobile Email is more than your average competitor boasting Microsoft Exchange in its corner. Guzzling electrolyte infused features such as multi-platform mobility, server side inbound rules, meeting request and invitation support as well as the ability to change your From Address to match your existing mailbox, mail2web.com is hydrated with more than just H₂O.
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On the mound…
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Apple of course has its star pitcher, the iPhone, but what happens when the iPhone’s arm goes out? Or the franchise goes “all business” and decides starting Blackberry would boost game attendance? What about all those other teams with equally great pitchers?
While MobileMe works well on your iPhone or iPod Touch, there are literally hundreds of other smartphone devices out there; many with popularity infringing on Apple’s hipster regime. Leveraging Microsoft Exchange, mail2web Mobile Email works with any ActiveSync compatible mobile device out of the box. We’re talking Windows Phone, Palm Pre and Android devices to start.
This doesn’t leave the iPhone out either. The Exchange option is built right into your Mail, Contacts & Calendar configuration pages and provides the same full featured push functionality for all three of those items to and from your Mobile Email mailbox wirelessly.
Last but certainly not least, our business savvy friends at RIM and the all business Blackberry models can be privy to your push data needs. With Blackberry Enterprise Server support, business is pleasure and mail2web Mobile Email brings you the features you need, no matter what Mobile Smartphone you decide to use and with no worry about changing your mind in the future!

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Meeeee.com! Not you!!!
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While perhaps somewhat unassuming, being limited to sending out mail as “me@me.com” is limiting when you want to have a more distinct or customized online persona. Like a tattoos and the NBA, your email address defines expectations of you. As with many things in our lives it can’t be me, me, me all the time, sometimes it’s all about all of you.
Not only can you receive mail from your third party mailbox to your mail2web Mobile Email account, but you can reply to that email as if you were using that mailbox. Bring your mail 2 Mobile Email, this game allows double dribbling.
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mail2web.com gets the serve
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It’s more than easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of email one receives on a day to day basis. It’s time to stop smacking away at a hundred balls a minute from your Tennis Ball feeder and move up to the big leagues. If you still need the practice, then you can continue marking things as junk or not junk, but with mail2web.com and Exchange, there’s so much more.
Manage all address within your safe senders, blocked senders and safe recipients list. Automatically trust messages from people listed in your contacts, or trust no one unless they are listed as safe!
If that’s not enough, pinpoint the exact location you want to put the ball after you hit it. With server side inbound rules, you can define what happens to mail after you receive it. Move it to a sub-folder to be checked later, mark it as read or important automatically, or even forward messages to another account. These are just the actions! You could forward messages based on words in the subject line or mark it as important if your boss is listed in the ‘To’ or ‘Cc’ fields. Drop the machine and start serving!
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Jack of all trades
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In case you have concerns that a Microsoft product won’t be compatible with your Mac system, let us reassure you one further. Exchange is now compatible with Mac Mail, iCal and Address Book with the introduction of Web Services for Mac. Built right into Mac OS X Snow Leopard out of the box, you can connect and sync all of your important data to and from Exchange with every bit as much ease as MobileMe. Over and above, you have compatibility with Windows PCs in case you work in an office that doesn’t allow you to have a Mac. All of this makes mail2web Mobile Email a champ in every department!
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…oh, did I mention you’re saving $40 USD per year with mail2web Mobile Email over MobileMe?

For lack of yet another sports metaphor, teaming up with mail2web Mobile Email is more than just me, it’s all you. Get your fill of me.com and throw in some of you too.

Pick A Winner!! Viral Video Contest

Melissa Smich — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:46:24 +0000

To celebrate and fill our new yet barren Youtube Channels, we decided to throw a viral video contest with a grand prize of $1,000

Bad news for the go-getters, your opportunity to enter is over – the submission time has now come to a close; Good news for the voyeurs, the fun is just getting started as voting begins today – and we received some very original, wickedly inspiring and deliciously hilarious videos.

Now we need your help: Pick Your Winner!

Winners will be selected based on the number and quality of views, favorites, stars, and comments – so get in there and get voting!

And they are as follows:

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Pop Quiz: What’s Cool?

Hosting with Attitude

Ever Wander?

Email With Attitude

Life’s Your Adventure

The video entries can be found on our myhosting and mail2web youtube channels

Now What are you waiting for, get voting!!

Which is your favorite? What would you like to see? Let us know!!

Apple Tablet Rumours

Birge Basik — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:55:45 +0000

Let’s talk a little bit about the Apple Tablet. Yesterday morning, Apple announced that they postponed the launch date of mysterious Apple Tablet. After their explanation, many people starting to believe that the Apple Tablet is dead or probably never existed. But if it’s really on the pipeline; here is all the data we know about it:

- 10.6” LCD display or/and 9.7” OLED screen

- OLED models will cost over $2000 and LCD models $800-$1000

- not launch before early 2010

- variety of internet connections from Wi-Fi to 3G

- Webcam for video-conferencing

Unfortunately, we don’t have any options but to wait and see.

Google Phone – gPhone out of rumour corner!

Birge Basik — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:49:48 +0000

At the beginning of this week, we heard some rumors about a Google branded smart phone. TechCrunch reported that the company was working on an Android powered (what else could it be?!) device. Then, rumors came to light and facts arose:

PC World’s Ian Pauls states that HTC and Google will manufacture a “gPhone” with advertising starting in January 2010. Of course, its operating system will be Android.

Many people have higher expectations from gPhone. It should add new values to the mobile phone concept and position itself in a very different place amongst its competitors.

MovieBook VPD500

Birge Basik — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:59 +0000

ViewSonic Corparation has a new media player on the shelves: MovieBook VPD500. It has a 800×480 high resolution 5” large-screen, 8 GB of built-in internal memory and full support for multimedia formats. Other specs are: 720p video output, Micro SD card slot, 2500 mAh battery which can play up to 4 hours of video or 5 hours of music, support for AVI, RMVB, FLV, MP3, WMA and WAV, and APE and FLAC extensions. Plus, it’s super light; only 196 grams. It costs £115 and available in 3 colors; black, white and pink.

The Thecus N0204 miniNAS

Birge Basik — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:29:49 +0000

The Thecus N0204 is the smallest NAS (Network Attached Server) ever. It’s the size of a USB hard drive. N0204 is small but comes with RAID 0, 1 and JBOD support. It consumes 25-30% of a regular two-bay NAS device, which means you save both your pocket book and environment at the same time.

It’s silent and works at cool operating temperatures. If you need to change one of the hard disks, it’s no problem due to hot plug and swap capabilities. The miniNAS is designed for hassle-free setup and has full multimedia support. It’s compatible with both Mac and PC networks and will work with Wi-Fi or Gigabit LAN via the ethernet connection on the back of the unit. Lastly, it uses 2.5” hard drives, but you must provide your own as they’re not included… Its retail price is $150.

Be Aware of Phishing and Malware attacks!

Tim Attwood — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:37:13 +0000

On Friday we reported some issues around phishing attempts against mail2web.com users. The phishing scam requested that mail2web.com users email their username and password to a websupport@mail2webmaster.com.

We have now received further reports of phishing emails sent that appear to be from “info@mail2web.com”. The email indicates that your account has been deactivated and asks you to run an attached utility in order to restore your mailbox. The attached file is in fact a malware utility which may be used to compromise your account.

As before, we recommend that all mail2web.com users exercise extreme caution when it comes to such suspicious notification emails. We will never ask you to send us your password, and we will never instruct you to run such a utility to restore your account.

If you receive any emails of this nature, please err on the side of caution and report it to abuse@mail2web.com or contact us at 1-877-MAIL2WEB before following any instructions.

If you have fallen victim to one of these phishing attempts, please contact us for further assistance.

Samsung Galaxy Spica: Another Android Smartphone

Birge Basik — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:17:02 +0000

Samsung is releasing its new Android based Smartphone Galaxy Spica for Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The Spica offers smooth access to Google’s mobile services such Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Talk and popular social networks like Facebook and Myspace. It has a 3.2” touchscreen display with 320×480 resolution, 3.2 MP camera, quad band GSM / EDGE / HSDPA, 800MHz processor with Google Android 1.5 Cupcake, built in GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi and a 3.5mm headphone jack, there is also a 1500mAh battery. It is 13.2mm thick.

Watch out! Phishing emails identified.

Jeremy Adams — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:59:01 +0000

It has come to our attention that phishing scam emails are being sent out suggesting that users send their login details including passwords to websupport@mail2webmaster.com. Remember that mail2web will never send requests like this nor would any other legitimate website. Should you be prompted by email to send this kind of personal information you should report the request immediately. You can always reach us at abuse@mail2web.com to report these kinds of issues and we take them all very seriously.

We have already taken the time to submit this sender for blacklisting throughout the web but it’s always a good idea to be extra cautious so we thought a posting in this regard would be beneficial to our users.

As always my mail2web friends, mail safe!

-Jeremy L. Adams
Product Manager

Eye-Fi WiFi – SD Cards with Uploading Capabilities!

Birge Basik — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:26:17 +0000

Eye-Fi Inc enables WiFi support for its Share, Share Video, Explore Video and Pro cards. Thus FTP upload will be possible directly from the SecureDigital memory cards. The newly-added function supports both the FTP and FTPS through the Eye-Fi Manager, which runs on both PC and Mac platforms. You can even share your photos straight to sites like Flickr. For more information you can visit eye.fi’s home page.