{"id":678,"date":"2003-10-06T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=678"},"modified":"2003-10-06T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T00:25:04","slug":"things-that-make-life-online-a-little-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Things that make life online a little better"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past six months I’ve discovered, out of necessity, a few tools and services that have made life online a just a little more bearable. I didn’t realize how much I love the Google Toolbar<\/a> popup blocker until I used someone else’s computer. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a popup ad, and when I visited some of the sites I regularly read using a browser without the toolbar installed I couldn’t believe how many a “normal” visitor gets hit with!<\/p>\n

To deal with spam, I’ve been using Cloudmark’s Spamnet<\/a>, and it does a fantastic job of filtering out junk – I haven’t had a single mis-classified message for months. I have to admit, I liked it even better when it was still in beta, and free, but it’s definitely worth $3.99 a month.<\/p>\n

Since Spamnet is a PC-only and Outlook-only product (at least for now), I had to search for another product\/service to help poor Michele<\/a> on her old iMac – she was typically receiving 100-200 spam message each day. I finally settle on Mailshell<\/a>. Again, it’s not free ($3.00 per month), but it’s done a great job of reducing the volume of spam, and it’s been extremely rare that it’s incorrectly flagged a message. The biggest drawback, is the fact that introduces a delay in receiving message since it periodically checks your SMTP server, and you can’t control its schedule – so sometimes Michele will have to wait a little while for a message to be picked up. Overall, she’s happy though – no more deleting hundreds of message each day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past six months I’ve discovered, out of necessity, a few tools and services that have made life online a just a little more bearable. I didn’t realize how much I love the Google Toolbar popup blocker until I used someone else’s computer. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a popup ad, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}