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Threema – private, secure messaging
Privacy is the new black and SnapChat looks like it’s wearing last season’s colours. What was supposed to be a secure, private service for sending time-expiring mobile messages was, according to the US Federal
Read More »Getting started on StartMail – part two
Email encryption Setting up encryption on a native email application is a bit convoluted and, frankly, beyond the perseverance of the average user. And is it actually possible to do this in a web
Read More »Getting started on StartMail – part one
Six months ago, due to privacy concerns, I migrated my domain’s email hosting from Gmail to MyKolab (you can read about how to do that here) and very happy with the results I’ve been too.
Read More »Getting started on StartMail – part three
This is the third part of a three-part series. Contacts At the time of writing, StartMail’s contacts implementation and contacts import functionality has yet to be completed. However, the following fields are currently shown
Read More »Are you the only person who doesn’t read your email?
Which planet does Microsoft’s marketing department live on? Planet “Don’t Know What’s Going On”? Microsoft is still running a campaign that taunts Google over the lack of privacy offered by Gmail. That campaign has
Read More »How to: migrating from GMail to MyKolab – part 4
This is the final part of How to: migrating from GMail to MyKolab, see also part one, part two and part three. Other MyKolab functionality Tasks or reminders As well as handling email, calendars
Read More »How to: migrating from GMail to MyKolab – part 3
This is part of a series, see Part 1 and Part 2. Here I detail my experience of migrating email from Google Apps to MyKolab. Backup, backup, backup I could have ignored performing a
Read More »How to: migrating from GMail to MyKolab – part 2
The previous article in this series outlined the reasons for migrating to MyKolab from Google Apps GMail. In this article I’ll outline how to migrate contacts and calendars from GMail to MyKolab, and also how
Read More »How to: migrating from GMail to MyKolab – part 1
During the reign of Nicolae Ceauşescu a sample of every keystroke from every typewriter in the country was kept by the Romanian state. Should any subversive literature appear, the typeface on the offending documented would be
Read More »Google hands over private data
For EU companies and companies doing business within the EU, the use of Gmail and Google Apps may not be as secure or legally compliant as thought. Whilst eyes have been focused on the
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