Gmail now is always using the secure https protocol. Great for privacy especially for personal emails accessed from work. Yet it poses a challenge to corporate censorship.
via Default https access for Gmail.
How SMBs Should Be Getting Started with Virtualization
via How SMBs Should Be Getting Started with Virtualization | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com.
Let’s say you’re about to make a very important presentation to a prospective client on the other side of the country. Before you depart on your business trip, you download all of your presentation materials and InDesign® hand-outs onto your trusty thumbdrive. Just in case, you also email the files to yourself.
But while you're in the air, your colleagues back at the office are making last minute edits to the files and your copies are now out of date. Worse yet, when you arrive at your destination, you realize you left your thumbdrive at home.
Sound familiar? The good news is that things are about to become a whole lot easier.
Over the next couple of weeks, we are rolling out the ability for Google Apps users to easily upload and securely share any type of file internally and externally using Google Docs. You get 1 GB of storage per user, and you can upload files up to 250 MB in size.
Now accessing your work files doesn't require a connection to your internal office network. Nor do you need to email files to yourself, carry around a thumbdrive, or use a company network drive – you can access your files using Google Docs from any web-enabled computer.
Combined with shared folders in Google Docs, the upload feature is a great way to collaborate on files with coworkers and external parties. Instead of using cumbersome email attachments, you can upload files to a folder and share it with coworkers, who can then access and edit the files from a single place. You can even have your sales team securely share contracts with external clients for review.
And of course, by using Google Docs, you can quickly and easily search across all your files from one place, getting access to the right file when and where you need it.
Google Apps Premier Edition users can also use the Google Documents List Data API to upload files to Google Docs in batch, or purchase applications offered by third parties that enable you to migrate and sync your files to Google Docs:
Memeo Connect for Google Apps is a new desktop application that offers an easy way to access, migrate, and synchronize files to Google Docs across multiple computers. (PC and Mac)
Syncplicity offers businesses automated back-up and file management with Google Docs. (PC)
Manymoon is an online project management platform that makes it simple to organize and share tasks and documents with coworkers and partners, including uploading files to Google Docs.
We're always looking for ways to make it easier for you to access and organize your information online and we hope you find the ability to store, share, and collaborate on files in Google Docs helpful. In the coming months, we will enable Google Apps Premier Edition customers to purchase additional storage for $3.50/GB/yr (or €3.00/gb/yr in the EU). If you'd like to be notified when additional storage can be purchased, please fill out this form and we will contact you as soon as it's available. As always, we’d love your feedback and if you have any questions, please check out our help forum.
via Official Google Enterprise Blog: Store and share files in the cloud with Google Docs.
| 1 | Automated exploit of a known vulnerability |
| 2 | Malicious HTML email |
| 3 | Reckless web surfing by employees |
| 4 | Web server compromise |
| 5 | Data lost on portable device |
| 6 | Reckless use of Wi-Fi hot spots |
| 7 | Reckless use of hotel networks and kiosks |
| 8 | Poor configuration leading to compromise |
| 9 | Lack of contingency |
| 10 | Insider attacks |
An old friend of mine was contemplating hosting his own website and asked me about my recommendations in terms of technology. I asked about his requirements and use cases. his response was:
“The start up will be educational and tutorials for anyone. Later it will grow to sell software programs, technologies and ideas“
If you happen to have a similar set of needs, I suggest at the start that you use a service either free or paid. The following services are the most viable solutions:
Creating a PPTP VPN connections in Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.x (Intrepid, Karmic). Article in Olaf’s Blog: “Creating a PPTP VPN connections in Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.x (Intrepid, Karmic)”
Run Snow Leopard on Windows with VMware [VMWare]: “
VMware is a great tool for running Windows and Linux anywhere, but OS X clients are not supported. Snow Leopard can be made to run on Windows, and Mac-hacking blog iHackintosh has the nitty-gritty on getting it working.
In order to get Snow Leopard working in VMware, you’ll need to be on an Intel-based Windows machine (AMD currently isn’t supported) with a retail copy of Snow Leopard, as well as a Snow Leopard VMware disk file, downloadable from many sources (iHackintosh lists a few). The process requires tweaking a lot of settings in VMware, as well as some disk switching and fast finger work, but overall the process isn’t too difficult. We talk a lot about using VMware to run Windows on a Mac, which is often the more necessary case, but this is certainly a nice option if, say, you’re thinking about making the Mac switch but want to extensively test drive the OS first. Hit the link for instructions on how to get set up.
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An Excellent web development site Webmonkey is full of tutorials for various web programming languages. See their PHP Tutorial for Beginners. When you’re ready, check out how to use PHP to talk to a database inWebMonkey’s PHP and MySQL tutorial. PHP’s online documentation and function reference is the best on the web. Each entry (like this one on the strlen function) includes user comments at the bottom which are often as helpful as the documentation itself. (I happen to be partial to PHP, but there are plenty of other server-side scripting languages you might decide to go with instead.)