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Stop Spam for Free with MX GuardDog
In my last few articles, I’ve been talking about setting up your own Zimbra mail server, as well as making some changes to stop outgoing mail being delivered as spam. However, we haven’t spoken about...
ZeXtras Review
In a previous article about setting up a Zimbra server, I mentioned ZeXtras when talking about mobile sync, and in particular, ActiveSync support for Zimbra. However, I feel that the quick mention of...
How To Stop Outgoing Mail On Zimbra From Being Delivered As Spam
Moving on from my previous article on how to setup Zimbra, this article will show you how to stop outgoing mail on Zimbra from being delivered as spam. After all, what’s the point in hosting your own...
How to Setup a Zimbra Server
Gmail is an awesome service, right? It’s free, it works, and it’s great! However, have you ever wondered why it’s free? Well, it’s free because you’re the product. Google uses your data in a number of...
Moving Away from Google - FINALLY!
For a long time now, I’ve been talking about moving away from Google for a lot of the cloud services that I have with them. I started off by explaining why I wanted to bring it all in house. But it so...
Build the Perfect Web Server
Anyone who works with websites will know how incredibly hard it is to find a good host, at a good price. Unfortunately, the market is saturated with crappy hosts, who provide crappy support, and even...
Hudl 2 Review
Recently I got the latest tablet from Tesco, the Hudl 2. It’s a great looking tablet that fills the niche of a high quality device at a good price. After using the Hudl 2 for nearly a month, I thought...
Digital Ocean Review
Over the last year or so, I’ve been using Digital Ocean to host all of my web servers, and in that time, I haven’t had a single issue! Not one. Nada. If you know what to expect from them, they can be...
How To Check If You Are Vulnerable To Bash Shellshock
Over the last few days, it has come to light that there is a large vulnerability in the widely used command line shell, Bash. This vulnerability has been dubbed “Shellshock”, if you want to know how t...
Leaving Ubuntu - Update
Back in March 2013, I decided to leave Ubuntu Linux. Since leaving Ubuntu I’ve jumped around between distro’s, but kept my trusty Chromebook by my side. So what have I been running for the last year?...
How To Use FTP On A Chromebook
Chromebook’s are brilliant. They’re cheap, quick, lightweight, and generally awesome. However, for power users, such as myself, Chromebook’s do lack some features. In this article, I’ll show you how t...
CyanogenMod 11 Galaxy S3 Freezing
Over the past 24 hours, I’ve been having a right nightmare upgrading my Samsung Galaxy S3 to CyanogenMod 11. After getting an update alert, I duly updated; but my device decided to start freezing ever...
Oh Freedom How I've Missed Thee!
Over the past 6 months or so, my blog, RefuGeeks has been growing and growing, and growing. That’s a really great thing, however it’s meant that a hell of a lot of my time has been taken up with serve...
Selling Up & Moving On
Many of us work bloody hard, and in most cases, it’s too hard. So what can we do about it? Is plodding through life being permanently over worked a good thing? Of course it isn’t. So I’ve taken some s...
Moving Away From Gmail is Harder Than You Think
Back In June, I wrote about how I wanted to bring it all in house and host all my own cloud services. So far things are going well, and I’ve replaced a lot of my previous 3rd party cloud services. But...
Decisions Decisions...
Anyone who follows me on social media, this site, or RefuGeeks will probably know that back in August, I was lucky enough to start writing for the tech blog Goliath, MakeUseOf. Over the last few month...
Dreamhost - The Worst Web Host I've Ever Used
I’m sure most of the people reading this post will know that I run a pretty popular blog, RefuGeeks. It’s really great that RefuGeeks is growing in popularity, but the side effect to that is that I’m...
I'm Writing for MakeUseOf
I’m really proud to say that I have been offered a position on the MakeUseOf team as part of their regular writing staff. For those of you that don’t know, MakeUseOf is one of the most popular technol...
Rodriguez - The Superstar That Never Was
If you read the about section of this website you will see that I am really into music, I love pretty much all types from old motown to modern/classic rock, to pop and indie. So it dawned on me, why d...
How I Made a Successful Career In IT
I actually get quite a lot of feedback from people asking me how I’ve managed to make such a successful career in IT at the tender age of 28 (well, 29 in a few weeks). To be honest I think a lot of it...