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Dave in Manchester, United Kingdom and listening via The Tune In Radio iPad App asked: “The other week I asked about for indexing and archiving email. I have a recommendation for this. I use Mailstore, which is a free program for home users but also available for a fee for corporate users. The program archives and indexes all email in outlook, PSC, imap, exchange and other popular formats like gmail & yahoo. It archives the mail outside of the email client and thereby helps keep those mailbox quotas in check. Now why do i like it? because I can search for my whole archive for email messages. You can search the subject or the whole of the message and the sender. this is a great program and far better than microsofts own archive utility, why dont you give it a try.”
MailStore does indeed look like an interesting product. There are three flavors: Home, Server, and Cloud. Home is free for personal use, which we presume means that if an individual user wanted to use it to archive his work email, he would need to purchase a license even though we could find no way on their website to actually do that.
MailStore Server is for business users who can dedicate a computer to the task of archiving the email for multiple users, and MailStore Cloud is actually aimed at Internet service providers who want to offer email archiving as a service.
How well MailStore actually works, we can’t say. But MailStore Home does appear to be a free solution for making sure you don’t lose any emails when Google or Microsoft deletes your inbox by mistake. It is definitely worth looking into!
As with anything, though, we would encourage you to copy and not move your email into MailStore, unless you need to empty your inbox for storage reasons, because something isn’t backed up until it’s stored in two locations that are not on the same hard drive.
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Consumer Reports Feature With Jim Willcox
If you’re a football fan you’d probably agree that there’s nothing worse than watching a big game on a small screen. If you need a bigger set, there are some pretty good deals right now, says Consumer Reports. Senior Editor Jim Willcox is here with some buying advice.
The “Into Tomorrow” team discussed the latest apps that they have been playing with recently.
• Samantha recommends: Candy Crush, FREE
- “Switch and match your way through more than 300 levels in this delicious and addictive puzzle adventure. Ain’t it the sweetest game ever?”
• Mark recommends: Libra Eorzea, FREE
- “This is an extremely useful app to a small number of people, specifically the one million or so players of Final Fantasy 14, an online roleplaying game that I’ve been reviewing as part of Into Gaming. Libra Eorzea is a companion app for iPhone that gives you a searchable database of quests, items, and locations in the game, as well as allowing you to access in game communication from your phone even when you’re not logged in. Every online game player is used to having to research things on websites in order to play the game, and alt-tabbing to do this often results in your face being eaten, unless you returned to a safe spot first. Death by alt-tab is a common thing. Libra Eorzea, for Final Fantasy 14 players, lets you access information without switching away from the game, saving pixilated butts in the process. It’s free in the iTunes App Store.” — Mark
What are your favorite Apps? Let us know at 800-899-INTO and we’ll feature them in this segment!
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Guest Segment:
Siva Kannan, Director of Engineering – iolo Tech
Sunhat in Saudi Arabia and listening via iPhone App calling in from the app asks us: “Would you recommend upgrading to iphone 5S? I have iPhone 4.”
There’s a fair difference between the 4 and the 5S, and you’ll likely benefit from switching the 5S, if you’re interested.
Pretty much everything about the phone was improved at some point between those two models, from the processor, to the RAM, to the screen, to the battery, to the camera, even the home button!
The 5S is considerably thinner and much lighter than the 4, it can connect to LTE, to faster WiFi, to faster 3G networks, it can do panoramic photos and slow motion videos, the phone itself is bigger, but not more uncomfortable to hold, and can still be used with one hand comfortably.
Overall, the 5S is a pretty major improvement over the 4, incremental and evolutionary as the improvements have been, the 4 and 5S have 3 models between them, and the small changes have certainly added up.
The iPhone 5S is not only a huge improvement over an iPhone 4, it is, for today at least, the fastest smartphone in the world. The tech website Anandtech compared the iPhone 5S with its dual-core 64-bit A7 processor against Android phones from HTC, LG, Motorola, and Samsung. LG came the closest to beating the iPhone. It has a quad-core Snapdragon processor running at 2.3 GHz. But the the iPhone 5S, which runs its processor at just 1.3 GHz, bested even that phone. In every single benchmark.
Now we don’t mean to suggest that the iPhone 5S will be the fastest smartphone forever, frankly we’re surprised that Samsung hasn’t launched their own 64-bit smartphone already. The competition will be fierce. And the iPhone 5S still only sports a 4-inch screen. But we do want to illustrate just how good the hardware is on the new 5S. Aside from screen size, it takes a backseat to no one.
Today, anyway.
For more information tune in to Hour 1 of our podcast.
Wireless Update Feature with Verizon’s Michelle Sutton:
Michelle Sutton works with our longtime wireless warrior, Verizon’s Chuck Hamby. Welcome, Michelle!
Jim in Idaho Falls, Idaho and listening via East Idaho News 1260AM KBLI calling in asked us: “I have an HP Computer that came originally with windows vista. I installed the 32 bit windows 8. I was wondering if I would have a faster machine if i reinstalled the windows 64 bit?”
Vista didn’t require a 64 bit computer, so your computer may have a 32 bit processor in it, you should check that first before even bothering to try the 64 bit installation.
If it does have 64 bit architecture, then yes, it’d be a little faster. You’d get twice the bits per processor cycle (which will make less of a difference than you think, by the way), and you will access to more RAM, but the difference won’t be huge.
Before you do anything, also keep in mind that you will 64 bit drivers for anything you regularly use, so make sure you have those first.
It’s been years and years since any Intel processor was shipped without 64-bit support, however. Since the advent of the Core 2 processor, all Intel chips have been 64-bit. So it’s more than likely that your computer can run a 64-bit version of Windows.
The issue is, should it? And that’s a matter of RAM. We would break it down this way. If you have 2GB or 3GB of RAM, you should use a 32-bit operating system. If you have 4GB of more of RAM, you should use a 64-bit operating system. Because a 32-bit operating system can’t really take advantage of 4GB or more of RAM, so you’re losing out on performance if you don’t upgrade.
We Hope that helps. Let us know.
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This Week’s Prizes for Our Listeners
Dave Cicirelli: Copies of his book – “Fakebook” – exploring our cultural obsession with social media. It’s a true story, based on actual lies.
Eton: FRX3 – Hand Turbine AM/FM/Weather Alert Radio
Ventev: An assortment of tangle-free USB cables and battery cases for iPhones