With advancement in mobile email technology in iPhones, Blackberries, and of course, laptops, the world of emails is evolving too. And Google is definitely on top of things, once again. Nearly a year ago my company, Synchronous Design & Marketing, switched to the Google Apps platform for our email and collaboration. We have not looked back since, and the productivity and accessibility is simply amazing.
Most hosting companies do not provide an IMAP platform, and the most common email method is POP3. Even worse, a lot of small businesses opt to …

Internet Explorer is probably the worst browser out there among commonly used browsers. By commonly used browser I mean the following :

Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 6
Firefox 2
Safari

Of course there are other rogue browsers that are rarely used, like Camino, Netscape, and some other nameless ones that most people do not know about, but the above 4 are the most frequently used browsers in the world right now.
Among all of them, Internet Explorer has, perhaps, the worst parsing and display system. It has problems with displaying PNGs (alpha layers will show …

Section Two for the Pro-Gear series will cover the software I use in order to get my work done.
Since my new computer is a Macbook Pro as I discussed on Pro Gear – Hardware, many of my software are now Mac-Based software. It was quite a transition coming over here since my hard drive on my HP Pavilion blew up and I was forced to switch computers fast. I will categorize my software mainly into three categories – backbone, administration, and design & development.
Backbone
Backbone software would mean what I run …