NetBloke.com - Back to Business - Christmas Gift
Publication Date: 04/12/2002
ISSN 1445-1360
Publication Date: 04/12/2002
ISSN 1445-1360
G'day!
Well it has been a long time since I have sent out an issue of
NetBloke. As I have always said, my paying job comes first, and
for those of you who do not know that is Sausage Software. Have
we done a lot of work on the business or what? As you will see on
the front page of the Sausage site we have owned the company now
for a year, and I have listed all of our achievements. The latest
of which is the Dog Pack, which are various combinations of our
Web Editors, a hosting plan from Sausage Hosting and one or more
domains from Sausage Domains. We really believe these are
tremendous value packages. If you are in need of any of these
sorts of products or services check it out.
So over the past two months I have come across a lot of different
programs, sites, hardware and general Internet stuff that I
really want to share with you all. Hence this issue.
I won't promise that I will get NetBloke out more often but I
think I have taken a few steps to make it a lot easier for me to
quickly whip up an issue. I am now trying out the full
functionality of Newsletter Ease, which is managing all the
subscriptions to this newsletter along with the formatting and
sending of the newsletter. It has taken a bit of time to set up
how I like but I am sure in the long run it will work out nicely.
I have a lot more things to share than I have put in this issue,
so I should have more content for another issue soon.
Seeya later alligator!
Nathan Allan
Boot
Ok when I tell you to stick it in the boot I do not mean to take
your shoe off and stick your head in it.
In Australia we refer to the trunk of a car as the boot. So
please do not look at me like I am deranged when I ask you to
stick it in the boot.
My mate Brian knows nearly everything to do with computers. Well
ok that is overstated, if he doesn't know it he finds it out!
My tip is if you get really stuck on something, or you want to
keep track of what is hot on the net, check out his Web site and
Blog.
http://www.genxtek.com
Here is a review of a program I found very useful - I wrote the
review for this weeks Sizzler. It will be useful for those of you
with Web sites.
SpamNet Beta6d 98/NT/2000/XP + OUTLOOK 2000/XP
http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/
Well I think I may have finally found it! Yes this spam solution
is the best I have found. Let me tell you why I have Chuck
Burnell to thank for recommending this to me.
It uses a collective system that creates a list of known
spammers, this list is then applied to your incoming email. All
the spam email is filtered into a spam folder.
I like this solution as it lets me double check that all the
email flagged as spam IS actually spam. So far it has not flagged
anything that is not spam.
It also gives you two new buttons in Outlook (yes only works with
Outlook at the moment), "block and "unblock". These allow you to
judge your incoming email. If it is spam you click "block" and it
is put into your spam folder. If something in your spam folder is
not spam, you click "unblock".
Cloudmark use some sort of backend system that builds up a rating
for each user, weighting the accuracy of their responses. this in
turn means that you should get a more accurate indication of
whether your incoming email is spam or not.
Of this system relies on having users. The more the better. So
please give it a try. As it helps out everyone!
Here is a joke from my wife that I will try to retell.
Jack and Stacey were on a bussiness trip together. Jack was
Stacey's boss and Stacey Jack's assistant.
After a hard day of work on the road they went and checked in to
the hotel. The desk clerk informed them that they had only one
room on their booking instead of the two they had requested. The
hotel was full so they decided it would be ok to share seeing the
room had two queen size beds.
Well Jack and Stacey go to bed. Jack settles in nicely but Stacey
is tossing and turning. Stacey turns to Jack's bed.
"Jack?"
"Yes Stacey?"
"I am cold, could you get me a blanket?"
"Stacey, why don't we just pretend for this one night that we are married."
Stacey has a good think about this and the implications then replies.
"Ok Jack, but just for tonight."
"Great Stacey, then go get your own blanket!"
