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Google+ for Google Apps Accounts

You have your Google Apps account and you want to jump on the Google+ bandwagon. Excellent idea. Yeah, but we can’t. Yet.

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Set up Google Apps for Email on your Apple Mail using POP

You’re ready to use Google Apps for Email for your domain and you’d like to set it up on your Mac. If you are using only one device (a computer and not also a phone or laptop), you could be using POP.

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Set up Google Apps for Email on your Apple Mail using IMAP

You’ve made the switch to Google Apps for Email and you’d like to set it up on your Mac. If you have multiple devices connecting to that email, you’re probably better off with IMAP.

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12,000 emails per month to a list of 2,000 subscribers — completely free

MailChimp, my preferred newsletter/mailing list/mass emailing software, just upped the ante: you can now use their service, completely free of charge, for your mailing list of 2,000 subscribers and send 12,000 emails per month.

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This letter is to inform you that it’s time to send in your search engine registration

Several clients have been sending me these emails that look quite official and sound threatening (“Failure to complete … ” etc.). It sounds very much like it’s your domain registration (which is their trick), but it’s not.

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Additional storage for Google Apps Standard Edition? Not Gmail, but Apps Standard.

It seems you can’t yet add storage to your 7 gigabytes of email space using Google Apps Standard. Well, not without upgrading all users to Premiere. Solutions?

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POP versus IMAP

With iPhones and Google Apps for email and desktops, laptops, and netbooks, the POP versus IMAP question keeps popping up. What’s the difference?

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WordPress Tutorial | Change DNS information, A record

This entry is part of 3 in the series WordPress | Moving Hosts

You have your files and database backed up and restored to your new host. Now it’s time to tell the domain to point to the new host.

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All switched, no problems, thanks.

Quoting Rip Gerber (pharmathriller.com) after we switched his email from a Microsoft Exchange email system to Google Apps: All switched, no problems, thanks.

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Adding or removing members from Mailman mailing list software

Mailman (usually provided for free with a cPanel backend control panel on Unix hosting) does a good job with mailing lists. This is one-to-all email, not necessarily a newsletter that everyone in the group can use. Pretty simple software, but it works well. Here’s a quick video showing how to add a new member to a list or remover an existing member from a list.

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Setting up an email group (or forwarder) in Google Apps

Google Apps (for email) used to have simple forwarders, but now they use Groups as forwarders so you can email to more than one person. Lots of options to work with.

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Setting up a new email address in Google Apps

You’re all set up with Google Apps, loving it, and want to add a new email address. Not just a forwarder, but a real account with POP access and webmail access etc. Here’s a step-by-step video to show you how.

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Mail Chimp

Great stats, easy-to-use editor to create your newsletter, love the backend interface, and, well, yeah, funny monkeys hanging around. Also, like Vertical Response, they don’t force you to do a monthly plan, but you can pay per recipient only when you send a newsletter.

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Using Google Apps email for you@yourdomain.com

Get all of the benefits of Gmail but with your own personal domain. Here’s how to set it up.

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There was a server move and I can’t send mail (or it’s bouncing)

A handful of you are saying your having trouble sending out mail, it’s bouncing back, or both. I just submitted a ticket to the host to get some more help and I’ll let you know what they say. The long and short of it, however, is that although there are some tricks and settings we [...]

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