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Solution: Exporting gmail to pst
Jul 31st
In one of our previous post (http://www.advertiseme.com.au/blog/index.php/2010/05/24/export-gmail-emails-to-pst/) I was looking for a solution to export my Gmail emails into a PST. I just worked a way on how to do is. With a bit of innovative thinking the solution was quite straight forward.
I looked everywhere and there are no options within Gmail to export to pst. That’s conclusive but what you can do is use your outlook and grab your emails using POP. This will basically download you emails into your outlook application. The steps are:
1. Log into gmail and click settings
2. Click “Fowarding and POP/IMAP”
3. In the POP Download section click Enable POP for all mail
4. If you don’t want to keep you emails in Gmail in step 2 select in the dropdown “delete Gmail’s copy”. This should free up all of your email space.
5. Then follow step 3 which gmail has provided detailed documentation and instructions. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=12103
gmail export to pst
Once you’ve got you Gmail connected to Outlook then you will start noticing all your emails being downloaded. Now, the catch is depending on how much email you’ve got, the process may take a while.
At the end of the download process, you can create a new PST file, by clicking in outlook “File – New – Outlook Data”. Give it a name e.g Gmail Backup and then start moving your emails into that outlook pst file.
Now you may be asking me, “I don’t have outlook!”, then my response is “Then why do you want to export to PST!”.
I hope this helped some of you people out there who was looking for a solution.
Advertising your property – I hate property launches
Jul 28th
For those of you who are looking for a home, have you ever been to a property launch? The process is like an auction – silent auction whereby you put your best offer before a nominated date and time in sealed envelope and the agents opens these bids in front of the vendor.
The vendor then reviews all the bids and will obviously select the highest bidder.
Now, I’m looking for a property and actually went through the process of submitting a bid and found the whole process favouring the vendor and it was a waste of time. Firstly, there was a price range advertised as part of the property launch so obviously some people would choose the lower end unless they are desperate to win the property. I was one of them. So I submitted what I thought was a reasonable price and paid a deposit. I waited for a few days and received a call back saying that although I was the only person who submitted a bid the vendor declined it as it was too low and whether I wanted to increase this bid (what the?). According to the bidding contract this was acceptable as it stated the vendor has the option of rejecting or accepting the offer.
And that’s the reason why I hate property launches.
Does anyone know of useful tips and hints for property launches?
WordPress 1.3 on the Blackberry
Jul 27th
I’m not sure whether other people are having this issue but when I insert an image to the wordpress application on my blackberry the image appears to display upside down. The way I fixed this was to login to wordpress through the browser and edit the image. Is anyone else having this same problem? I’m assuming its related to wordpress 1.3
Advertise Me Wallpapers
Jul 16th
advertise me has just released a set of wallpapers used on desktop PC’s and digital signage systems. The designs are simple, innovative but more importantly effective. Check them out here.
http://www.advertiseme.com.au/content/Resources.Downloads.asp
Loading ...Upgrade to WordPress 3.0
Jun 24th
I just logged into this blog and noticed that version 3.0 is now available!!! Yuppie. I decided to check to see what features 3.0 offered and in summary here’s the highlight (they can be found on the wordpress.org website):
■WordPress and WordPress MU have merged, allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress installation. – this is an awesome feature
■New default theme “Twenty Ten” takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
■New custom menu management feature, allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
■Custom header and background APIs.
■Contextual help text accessed under the Help tab of every screen in the WordPress administration.
■Ability to set the admin username and password during installation.
■Bulk updating of themes with an automatic maintenance mode during the process.
■Support for shortlinks.
■Improved Custom post types and custom taxonomies including hierarchical (category-style) support. (Try the Custom Post Type UI or GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools plugins to see the possibilities.)
■A lighter admin color scheme to increase accessibility and put the focus more squarely on your content.
Here’s a short video tour of v3.0:
Before upgrading to the latest version make sure you backup your databases and files, just incase the upgrade process doesn’t successfully complete. There are quite a number of plugins available to automatically perform backups.
Company Business Cards
Jun 8th
Business cards are one of the first marketing materials your business will develop and from our experience you need to get this right otherwise you’ll end up wasting lots of money and time.
Since our first initial design of our business card, we’ve gone through 4 different designs and I believe there will be more in the future.
Based on our experience, we would like to share the following pointers with everyone:
- Don’t print too many at the start as you’ll definitely change something about the design of the card, so think about the trees.
- There are some printing companies will make you think you need to purchase and print a minimum amount of cards e.g 1000. Don’t be fooled as there are some companies out there that actually allow you to print just 50 cards. Obviously if you work out the printing cost for each card, it will be much higher if you print 50 rather than 1000.
- Keep your design simple and don’t have too much colour. Have a maximum of 3 colours on your business card. Having too many colours on the card will make your card look too busy.
- Avoid bright colour – it may stand out but it will not look professional at all
- There are different types of finishes. This refers to the type of material the card is printed on. In summary we would recommend to go for a matt cello finish as it looks more professional.
- Make sure your company logo doesn’t overcrowd the card
- Now, we’ve debated this point several times so if you’ve just started your business do you have a title for your position e.g Director, CEO, Manager? Do you have this printed on your business card? Initially we did have this printed on our very first card design. However, we’ve learnt our lesson and now we’ve actually removed the titles on our business cards. Our reasoning is simple – some people may feel intimidated if they see your business title and vice versa. So instead we decided to put something different on our title – “your digital partner”. It’s simple and direct.
- It will be cheaper if you don’t have to print on the back of the card. Don’t try to put something on the back unless you have something compelling or useful.
Loading ...3D videos on Youtube
May 31st
I have a sneaking suspicion that Youtube will soon start showing 3D videos especially when 3D televisions are becoming more popular and affordable. What do you think?
Loading ...BlackBerry Storm battery pull consumes 1/5 of battery
May 26th
Just recently I noticed my blackberry storm consuming almost 1/5 of the battery after performing a battery pull or even using the application Quickpull. Is this normal or is my battery going flat?
I’ve had this Blackberry Storm for over a year now and I expected the life of the battery to last longer than this. In any case I purchased two new batteries from eBay for about $4.00 each. I also decided to purchase a Bluetooth keyboard so I can quickly and easily type these posts on my Blackberry Storm.
Export Gmail emails to pst?
May 24th
Does anyone know whether it’s possible to export Gmail emails to a pst file? I would like to archive some emails from my Gmail account. I understand there’s a offline feature within Gmail which uses gears but I believe that you won’t be able to save this into a file. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Using Social Networking Websites to Advertise Your Business
May 21st
Using social networking websites such as twitter and facebook are now becoming the norm for advertising and marketing your business products or services. Quite a number of business all over the world are using twitter and facebook to connect and promote their businesses using viral marketing techniques. Creating an account for twitter and facebook is an easy task, but then how do you start promoting these two useful tools and start building a loyal fan or follower?
I believe the trick is to cross promote your business using these tool and give your fans and followers something that no other business is providing – maybe it’s humour, maybe it’s honesty, or it could even be the fact that your business is listening to what they are saying. To be honest we haven’t had a change to get around to setting up a facebook page for our company. We do have one for our Squeak brand – here’s our facebook page feel free to become a fan. We do intend to set up a facebook page in the next couple of months so what this space (that’s if we get around to it).
With twitter, we actually have almost 300 followers – here’s our twitter profile. now I’m not too sure how many of these followers are actually legit but for those that are thanks for following us. If it’s done correctly you can actually integrate twitter into your facebook account and vice versa. So potentially you can reach both your fans and followers.
Does anyone have any good strategies for using twitter and facebook?
