In general we recommend our clients implement Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) when using Outlook for domains, however there are some limitations to this because Mac Mail and the Mac edition of Mozilla Thunderbird do not support it. However Microsoft have finally announced support for IMAP. IMAP also allowed 3rd party developer integration, and multiple services have already announced…
We are proud to be based in Blackpool and we want to help out local business as much as possible. That’s why we are offering a 20% discount on all our web design projects that use WordPress. This means you can have a fully manageable website that has been professionally designed, emails, and hosting for…
Sites developed with WordPress have been under attack from a botnet of tens of thousands of computers for the past week. The botnet is using a brute force attack on the admin users to try and gain access to the sites administration. Once within the administration the hackers will be able to insert malicious code…
Following Google’s Shopping move from free to paid there has been a huge drop in the number of shopping results that are shown up in the organic/universal listings within Google.com Example of universal search Searchmetrics produced a report showing that in January 2012 shopping results appeared in 20% of universal search integrations, however by…
Last Saturday the world’s largest broadcast news organization, BBC News, received an unnatural link notification from Google. A BBC News representative posted in the Google Help Forums about the notification seeking advice on how to find and remove them: I am a representative of the BBC site and on Saturday we got a ‘notice…
Google Shopping or Google Base as it used to be called has been one of our favourite tools for getting traffic and sales for our e-commerce clients for several years now. Unfortunately last year Google decided that it would be changing this service from being free for merchants to list their products into a commercial…
Google wants to protect searchers from bad merchants and could potentially drop rankings for websites that have a history of bad customer service later this year. The news came during the “How to Rank Better in Google & Bing” session at the SXSW conference in Austin. Google’s chief web spam fighter Matt Cutts responded to…
Google have been making it harder to sign up to their free version of Google Apps recently, and they have finally pulled the plug on it and will no longer be accepting applications for the free accounts. This does not affect existing users. For new clients wishing to have a similar service the free options…
Google have finally launched the long anticipated Google Drive, a cloud storage / sync solution to rival (and possibly beat) services such as Drop Box, Sugar Sync, and Sky Drive. Google has fully incorporated Google Drive into its core services and has merged Google Docs with it, meaning any file that is uploaded and in…
For the small number of clients that are still on FastHosts, there is a current on-going problem with incoming POP3 email. Please also note that if you are still on our FastHosts servers we will have completed the hosting and email migration by Tuesday the 8th of February. The official announcement from FastHosts is: On…