2012-05-28 meeting

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Doors open at 7:00
Meeting starts at 7:30

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- News and Views
- Five minutes in the Lion's den
- Five minutes with your head in the iCloud
- iPhoto for the iPad

-- break --

- HDR software for Mac
- Owning your own domain for email purposes

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We will also head out for tea and desert at the Royal Oak next door for an after-meeting-meeting

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Owning your own domain for email purposes:

3 step process ...


1) Buy your domain

Example domain name registration costs (per year):

Google ($10) -- they use an 3rd party to do this -- use link below to start process
godaddy ($13)
hover ($13.50) -- use discount code DANSENTME to get this price
domainsatcost ($15)
Many others exist out there. This is just a sample.

2) Setup Google (note-- plenty of alternative email hosts exist but this one is pretty reliable):

Apps for Business
http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/index.html

Users: 10
Email storage per user: 10GB
Custom email adresses: Yes
Cost: $Free

Includes a step-by-step process (universality of terms along with lots of online reference material helped a lot)

Additional Benefits ...
IMAP support,
Import previous email content,
Admin panel
iOS Mail support
Excellent SPAM filtering
Supports "anything"@yourdomain.com delivered to a specific address
Supports aliases

3) Tell everyone!