Websiteforensics.com » Internet Providers http://websiteforensics.com we remember when the web was in black and white ... Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:54:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How to use alternate SMTP services http://websiteforensics.com/domains/how-to-use-alternate-smtp-services/ http://websiteforensics.com/domains/how-to-use-alternate-smtp-services/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:03:01 +0000 Mark MacKinnon http://websiteforensics.com/?p=492 We can finally send emails as our original domain identities! Our ISP, like many out there, has disabled SMTP on port 25 and forces you to use your ISP identity for all your email accounts. It hardly looks professional when someone writes to your domain email and gets a really personal looking ISP sender in their response. We decided we had enough, especially since we use many of our domains as email domains.

By subscribing to authsmtp.com, we were able to obtain services that meet our needs. Affordable pricing, quick service, support and full control of authorized senders.

Need an alternate SMTP service, go to authsmtp.com.

]]> http://websiteforensics.com/domains/how-to-use-alternate-smtp-services/feed/ 0 The Scourge of Corporate Web Filtering http://websiteforensics.com/filtering/the-scourge-of-corporate-web-filtering/ http://websiteforensics.com/filtering/the-scourge-of-corporate-web-filtering/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:33:19 +0000 Mark MacKinnon http://www.websiteforensics.com/?p=241 websenseIt started like just another day at one of our remote offices: email, follow-ups, meetings, calendar management, spreadsheets, a little pdf here and there, some programming, a last minute Photoshop tweak …

Normally, every time one of our workers finishes a task, he or she takes a 15 minute brain break or does some other Web 2.0 activity that benefits the organization. Some of us prefer Twitter, reading what new trends are out there. Others like to do a little Facebook to see what our friends – and foes – are up to. Reddit is also a definite favorite.

While some at HR might think this is not productive behavior, those of us in the trenches, including the petty officers, know how this kind of activity can be extremely beneficial to the organization. Where does HR think we get our best ideas from? A Ouija board? Anyway, I digress.

So IT installed the latest version of Websense yesterday. Imagine our seething anger when we couldn’t access Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, ImgUr, Blogspot, Tumblr… Great, let’s turn the dial back ten years and have a Web 1.0 only company policy.

This is what happens with the uncreatives, the troglodytes decide what you can or cannot do on line. And we’re not talking inappropriate usage here people, I know it, you know it and the American people know it. Youtube is a bitching source for ideas, for how-to videos and tutorials. Facebook is where we do our best industrial spying, really! FUUUUUUUUUUUUU…

What, even fuuuuu.deviantart.com is blocked?!

]]> http://websiteforensics.com/filtering/the-scourge-of-corporate-web-filtering/feed/ 5 High Speed Internet in the South West USA http://websiteforensics.com/internet-providers/high-speed-internet-in-the-south-west-usa/ http://websiteforensics.com/internet-providers/high-speed-internet-in-the-south-west-usa/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:58:35 +0000 Mark MacKinnon http://www.websiteforensics.com/?p=128 When we – at WebsiteForensics.com – spend our summers in New Mexico between Albuquerque, Las Vegas and Santa Fe, we need a reliable Internet connection so we can telecommute back to Toronto.

Our favorite provider for High Speed Internet in our home away from home remains Qwest. Qwest Communications is not just about being an Internet Provider, they are also a provider for Home phone and long distance phone, cell phones (including plans), VoIP and other communication services.

Qwest Communications International is a large telecom provider that provides services in western US states including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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