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Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
Archive for March, 2008
Daily sending quota exceeded
My wife has been having a problem sending email. We currently use Google Apps for our domain, and when she sends email, she gets the following message:
5.4.5 Daily sending quota exceeded
This message is supposed appear if an account has sent more than 500 messages, or more than 100 when using a mail client. The problem is that she has only sent 2 messages within last 24 hours.
I have filed a trouble ticket, and have posted a message on thir Google Group. In the mean time, I have set up one of our Godaddy email accounts, to allow her to send outgoing mail.
Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
Outside Help - Week 12
Contrary to popular opinion, I did read more than the NCAA basketball results this week. In fact, my reading popped up some new finds for people who are short on time, but love news. And for good measure, there are also tips for YouTube, Firefox, Vista and recyclers.
Continue Reading March 23rd, 2008
OpenDNS and Verizon Wireless MMS
As soon as I got my Samsung SCH-i760, I configured the phone to use the DNS servers from OpenDNS. Everything seemed to be working fine, and web browsing seemed faster. A while later, I tried sending an MMS message, and it just didn’t work, but an error messages was shown.
I finally, got around to tracking this down today. It looks like Verizon uses a MMS server that has a host name that only resolves from inside the Verizon Wireless network. So OpenDNS is not able to resolve this hostname.
Once I switched back to the default servers I was able to send picture messages again.
Continue Reading March 20th, 2008
Add IE Search Prefixes with TweakUI
One browser feature that gets little coverage belongs to Internet Explorer. In 2005, Microsoft added a feature called IE search prefixes. These shortcuts allow users to type a prefix & query and get answers from some of their sites. For example, you can type “define” and a word to get a listing of definitions. The good news is you’re not limited to just the ones Microsoft provided. I’ll show you how to edit or add your own search prefixes for other sites if you use Windows XP
Continue Reading March 19th, 2008