TooMuchGreen

Just because TooMuchGreen are open source advocates this doesn’t in any way mean we’re blinkered Microsoft haters, far from it, we’re open to all solutions and merely like to promote the ones we believe are best suited for the task in hand, whatever it may be. We endorse Microsoft Active Directory for network infrastructure & resource management but recommend Ubuntu Linux as an enterprise client and for web/database server side technology.  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:05 mins)

With more and more SPAM eMail being created each day it’s increasingly difficult for many SME’s to not only manage their incoming flows but in many cases to communicate with clients increasingly tightening SPAM filters at the other end. If your website and eMail platform emanates from a poorly managed and resultantly blacklisted host you quite quickly find yourself cut off with an inbox full of “mail delivery failed” messages, not at all conducive to fluid business.

So what’s the answer?  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:18 mins)

No matter what Google Wave or Tweetdeck may present to us in the way of cutting edge instant comms the bulky back end business world of I.T is invariably slow to adopt such technological freshness. Email is still the preferred method of communication and will probably be so for some time, as such it’s obviously somewhat prudent to have a robust and comprehensive cost effective solution in place.  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:05 mins)

Email is officially yesterdays technology. Previously groundbreaking as the quickest form of communication it now lags on the periphery of snail mail terminology due to the instant zip of new alternatives such as Twitter.

Of course collaboratively it’s still the de facto standard for business interaction, but that’s only because Google Wave hasn’t been released and adopted yet. Google Wave? Indeed. After being shipped off to Google’s Sydney office to develop the product in secret the Wave team presented their two year project at the recent Google IO developers conference, I went through the presentation and really didn’t expect to be so impressed. So, what IS the Wave?  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:31 mins)

Email – the enabler of the electronic age? Our very own technological spokesperson, Apple fan-boy extraordinaire, Ubuntu advocate and undisputed King of Twitter, the man Stephen Fry, nailed it with his recent blog-post “Office Slavery” in which he laments the loss of the office secretary and highlights the resultant time sapping vacuum we drop into each day trawling through our digitised messages, as ever he’s right on the button and I’m not going to further drag out the scourge of lost hours spent replying, forwarding and CC-ing, we’re all more than aware how much our lives are ruled by the keyboard and the inbox. No, in this post I just wanted to drop behind the scenes of actual content for a moment to highlight a few of the technical hurdles mainstream users may not be aware of, you may think with email being the prevalent and integrated norm it is there might be some degree of stability around the majority of services offered to us, however you’d be surprised.  Read more... (estimated reading time 4:10 mins)

As an alternative to MobileME I thought I’d evaluate a replacement cloud calendar service, preferably with desktop sync, preferably with a To Do or Task list (I’m a staunch list maker) and preferably both viewable and editable on the iPod Touch (or iPhone), in fact never mind *preferable*, I demand all three, not only that I want them for nothing (If I had to support myself as a user I’d hate me).

Although I don’t have a GMail account Google calendar had to be the starting point, as did the superb open source mail client Thunderbird for my IMAP mail as it’s no big deal integrating the Lightning calendar add-on and getting it to talk to Google, here’s how.  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:24 mins)