Monday, April 13, 2015

Overwhelmed By Spam? We Can Help

I was onsite with a new client and mentioned e-mail. He said he has a hard time with e-mail because he gets so much of it. I asked if he gets a lot of spam. Well, yes, he sure did! I watched as Outlook did a


Spam circle with line through it inside a five-pointed star to illustrate email security post.

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send/receive and got about twenty e-mails, nearly all of them junk.


I told him I could set up a spam and virus filter to remedy the situation. This is the Barracuda “Spam Filtering Service” you’ll find under our services.


This cloud service sits between “the world” and your e-mail server. It doesn’t matter if you’re using an Exchange server, a POP/IMAP server, Gmail, or Office365. The service filters out viruses and spam, then sends the remaining e-mails to your mail server.


As I write this, I’m looking at their statistics for the last 24 hours. Out of 639 incoming messages, 92 were allowed, 259 were quarantined, and 288 were blocked outright. That’s cutting incoming e-mail by 85%!


Mullarky Business Systems, LLC can provide this service to you at a VERY affordable rate. Call us for details!



Overwhelmed By Spam? We Can Help

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Great Mileage Tracking App

MileIQ Logo for MileIQ, a great mileage tracking app.

MileIQ, a great mileage tracking app.


 


Do you track business mileage, either to report to the IRS, or your employer? I do. And I often forget to record trips as I travel around the Milwaukee, Waukesha and Jefferson areas visiting IT clients.  If you’re in the same boat, I found a great mileage tracking app for your phone – MileIQ.


MileIQ automatically tracks your trips during working hours, which you can define. Then, you classify trips as business or personal. From their web site, you can print a monthly or yearly report. I plan to print a report monthly – just in case these guys ‘disappear’. I’m afraid that sort of thing DOES happen!


There is a free plan that allows 40 “drives” per month, or an unlimited plan for $60/year. If this app saves me two hours of manually entering data into Excel every month or two (which it does), it is worth every penny.


I use this app on my iPhone, but an Android app is also available. To my surprise, the app does not drain my phone’s battery.


Here’s a video from MileIQ’s web site:


 


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Great Mileage Tracking App