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Making Google Apps Your Default Mail Provider in Vista

I was doing some research lately in order to help a client set up their Google Apps (Gmail) account set up as the default mail client in Vista lately when I found a link on About.com that states: Unfortunately, you cannot set the Gmail web interface as your default email program in Windows Vista. You …

EMM and AspDotNetStorefront v8.0.1.1

UPDATED:  If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, you can do the following to all of the xaEmm*.aspx.cs files in order to get this working with your website: Add a Using reference to AspDotNetStorefrontCore to the top of the file as shown below:     I’m sure purists might insist that you actually replace …

AspDotNetStoreFront - Another View

We've been singing the praise of AspDotNetStorefront (ASPDNSF) for some time now on our blog and in discussions with potential and current customers. It is great to stumble across a few from another writer: Give Your Online Business The Edge With The Best ASP Shopping Cart Software These days, competition for those online dollars that …

Next Version of Enhanced Mail Manager for ASPDNSF

Here are some of the ideas on the roadmap for the next version of EMM: Attachments ? Originally we didn?t include this due to our previous experience as a mail service provider for thousands of clients, serving millions of emails a day. By not sending attachments, the likelihood of acceptance by a wider range of …

Fed Up with Busby SEO Test Spammers...

Ok, bear with me here a minute. I don't usually use this forum for personal rants but I've had it with these Spammers (to put it kindly) that are participating in the Busby SEO Test contest putting up inane and irrelevant comments on this site just so that they can get a link back to …

Embedding Videos In ASPDNSF Product Pages

One of our clients was facing a desire to move torwards placing videos or other flash objects into the product display pages of ASPDNSF. The introduction of a Tabbed UI provided a great framework for this but the same concept could apply to any of the product display XMLConfig package. One of the first criteria …

Google Apps: Did You Know - Part 1

Hopefully this will be one in a series of quick hit information bites about Google Apps. Did you know that – with Google Apps Standard, you are limited to 500 email sends per day as opposed to 2000 emails a day with the Premier Accounts? This is yet another compelling reason for hard-core power users …

Google Apps Standard (Free) Now Limits User Accounts

Google announced recently that the Standard version of Google Apps is now limited to a maximum of 50 users. If you were a previous customer with more than 50 accounts on the Standard version, you will be allowed to keep your users in excess of this number but future implementations will be limited. Frankly, I …

EMM And Email Deliverability

I received an email from an EMM customer today asking about how best to advise HIS client when it came time to talk about the value of Enhanced Mail Manager for ASPDotNetStorefront versus hosted services like Constant Contact. Aside from the obvious cost discussion (a HUGE factor for many small businesses) here is the rest …

BlogEngine.Net Features

I?ve received a few inquiries about the features that are available in BE.Net in our comments section. Here is the latest grid posted (showing 1.4 although they are now up to 1.4.5): Feature table This is a list of all the features of BlogEngine.NET Current Version 1.4 License Ms-RL Cost Free and open source Server …