Create an online newsletter using Constant Contact
February 27th, 2009 | Posted under The Internet | No Comments »
Creating a newsletter is difficult for two important reasons. First of all, writing is a craft in itself and second, you need to be able to create a nice html thing. Oh and there’s actually a third: recipient management. If Mrs Saunders from the Dentist Office complaints that she doesn’t want to receive your e-mails anymore, you have to remove her from the list. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a system that did all that for you? Luckily there is, it’s called constant contact. Of course you still need to write the newsletter yourself, but that’s just about it.
- Go to www.constantcontact.com
- Click on Free Trial (yep, sadly this isn’t free)
- Fill in the details that are required
- Your account will be activated. Click on Build or Import your contact list.
- Create a contact list and import your recipients
- Now click on Create an Email
- Give your email a name.
- Choose the template that fits your needs the best (you c an design your own one, but id you could you wouldn’t need this service for that)
- Click Next
- Fill in the E-mail settings (subject, name, extra options etc.)
- Click Next
- Now you’re in your template. Just add text and upload pictures to format your newsletter the way you want it.
- Click save and Continue.
- Now decide if you want to send your e-mail now or if you want to schedule it for a delivery on another moment, and confirm.
- That’s it, you’ve designed your first newsletter, composed it, and sent it. Good job!
Of course you’re not supposed to enter all the contacts manually, there’s a system for that ( I just love to say system). Create a signup box for your website on the CC website, and place the code on your site. Now people can sign up through your site. It’s brilliant, apart from the fact that you’re going to pay when your recipient count surpasses 30. But the fact that this service takes a lot of work out of your hands, makes up for it all!
Mozilla Thunderbird – Free Windows Email Client
February 11th, 2009 | Posted under Computer Advice, The Internet | No Comments »
Mozilla Thunderbird is a Free Windows Email Client for everyone who wants to use it. I highly recommend it for anyone who uses personal email, and wants to keep everything organized, without much fuss.
It has a slew of features such as:
- Easy to organize all your email in folders.
- Tag and color code your email messages.
- Show message history, so you can view the e-mail that went back and forth like a conversation.
- Search quickly and easily throughout all your emails with powerful in email and search within all of your folders.
- Saved your searches so you can find what you already found quickly and easily.
- Phishing protection and privacy protection.
- Powerful spam filtering system.
- Automated updates that keeps everything up to date automatically.
- Open source so there is a community working on it all the time.
- RSS feed reader built in.
Wow what a list. I mean, when you consider the price tag of $0, what more could you ask for? Honestly! I couldn’t ask for much more than that. This isn’t just a low end freebie people, this is a full featured email client that you can’t go wrong with. To add to all the excitement look at their great logo:
Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client
Thanks for reading. Until next time.
Best Free SSH and Telnet Client
February 4th, 2009 | Posted under Computer Advice, The Internet, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »
Check out PuTTY, it’s not only full featured, but it’s also free. PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Download it free at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Top 3 Free Virus Scanners
January 24th, 2009 | Posted under Computer Advice | No Comments »
If you have a computer running Windows, without doubt, you need a good virus scanner. How about a good and free virus scanner? If you’re like me, nothing rings better than free, so without further delay…
The Top 3 Free Virus Scanners
3. Clam AntiVirus – http://www.clamav.net and http://w32.clamav.net/
An open source anti virus software that is mainly for Unix installations. Unfortunately they are no longer updating this for Windows so it’s not recommended. You can still get the updated virus definition files and scan with them and protect your computer. This is still a great virus scanner and its source code is available under the GPLv2. No warranty is made either explicitly or implicitly for its use, for further details please refer to the GPL.
2. AVG – http://free.avg.com/
AVG provides basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows available to download for free. Limited features, no support, for private and non-commercial use only. That means if you plan to use it for anything but your personal computer that you do not conduct business on you must pay for it. Some notable facts about AVG are:
1. Avast – Bounceweb’s Pick! – http://www.avast.com or http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
Avast is comparable with a lot of the big names in antivirus, such as McAfee, or Norton. Feature by feature Avast matches up, up to date virus definitions, it takes very little system resources so it won’t bog down your computer, it scans your system files, e-mails, and even compressed files. PCWorld chose it over AVG for the best free virus scanner in 2007! Some of the features include:
- Anti-spyware built-in
- Web Shield
- Anti-rootkit built-in
- Automatic updates
- Strong self-protection
- Virus Chest
- Antivirus kernel System integration
- Simple User Interface
- Integrated Virus Cleaner
- Resident protection Support for 64-bit Windows
- P2P and IM Shields
- Internationalization
- Network Shield
Now what are you waiting for? Stop paying for your antivirus software! Get a free one that does the same thing for free!
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