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Google have begun to roll out a new security feature to all Gmail and Google Apps users and provides a breakdown of which computers have been using your account and when.

Zindus is a Thunderbird Add-on which synchronises your Thunderbird Address Book with contacts in your Gmail/ GApps Account and is very handy for regular users of both.

Just when you thought that the introduction of IMAP for Google Apps couldn’t make it easier to migrate (using drag and drop in an email client), the Google Apps team have now just released a small application to make it even easier.
Aptly named the Google Email Uploader, it will automatically upload all of your emails [...]

With data sizes on the increase, some files are simply not suitable for email.  Google Apps boasts an impressive 20MB attachment limit but you can’t always be certain that your recipient has the same luxury.  For large films, zip files full of photographs, or for your Sage Accounts that need to be with your accountant [...]

You don’t have time to find and install the software. You are not at the office where all of your programs and settings are tuned to your liking. But you need to convert your document from .pdf to word or vice versa. Doing it for free would also be a bonus.

You have a list of clients and you want a quick, easy and free way to send them your newsletter. We have already covered Scribus, but this time you actually want to put your content within the body of an email rather than as an attachment. Here is our surefire recipe for success:

Backing up your data should be one of the main mantras of any business.  A virus or sudden hardware failure can strike at any time and reduce even the most philosophical of us to tears.
MailStore Home is a free, windows only, application that provides you with an easy way to back up your emails.  Whilst [...]

Well, we’ve already discussed the huge benefits of using Thunderbird, and one of its major advantages for us was the extensions (more recently called “addons”) feature which adds to an already formidable package.
We list 5 extensions/addons that we use daily, although feel free to add any comments about any that you feel we missed.
1) Addressbook [...]

Following the release of the Gmail Mobile application, a java based program to allow you to read your messages from your phone, Google has now released a version for Google Apps for your Domain users who don’t happen to have a Blackberry.  In other words, you can use it with almost any phone on the [...]

Many businesses make use of a Microsoft Exchange Server to manage their emails and files. True to its name, it requires a server, which is essentially a hard disk which runs all of the office applications and filters them down to each user on their computers. For example, it will collect all emails [...]

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 is a free download - and with an installer weighing in at just over 6 megabytes, this is already a blessing even for the slowest of internet connections.