PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Official Photographer

Apr

25

Bruce Johnson of Rowland Studio is the official photographer of Seattle Executives Association. He is the most dedicated profession I know anywhere. He is working (walking too) within 2 weeks of knee replacement surgery. He is a superman or he knows no pain.

http://rowlandphoto.com/

#Arts

Tiny and Thunder

Apr

25

Tiny really does not like thunder ... He is under the desk now.

#Animals #Pets

Classification Talk

Apr

25

Mayumi Nakamura, President of PSPINC, will be doing the classification talk at the Seattle Executives Association luncheon today. Seattle Executives Association is 95 year old premiere business to business networking organization with over 100 members meeting every Wednesday. PSPINC has been a member since 2003.

http://www.seattleexecs.org/

#Business #Marketing

Good Housekeeping

Apr

24

There are many web sites that has lots and lots of information. Some web sites have hundreds of pages that owner think it is important for their customer to know.

I am sorry to tell you, you can not be more wrong. If you need to give information to a customer, instead of making it on the web site, create a link for people to download eBook and PDF files. People will not spend hours reading your web site.

Besides, having too much information makes your web site very cluttered and complicated. You do want your audience to get the message as quickly and easily as possible. That will make it easier for the search site to rate you as well.

#Computer #Internet

Phishing

Apr

23

This email is not from American Express. This email is sent to get my information. From time to time, you receive email like this one. Do not click on them.

You must take a look at where email came from first. If it is not the domain name you trust, through it away. Also, if you click them and it open a browser, take a look at the domain name.

It is called phishing and you may receive this type of email from not only financial institutions, but hosting companies, shipping companies, logistics companies and government agencies like IRS. Be very careful.

#Computer #Internet

Mailing Photos

Apr

23

Emailing photos few years ago was easy. Just attached the photos that you can't to send to the email and click send. But now, it is not that easy. For instance, I took this picture with Canon SLR and the original file size of this image is over 6MB. Imagine sending 10 of those pictures ... you cannot not do that with a regular email. You need a special program design to send large files.

http://www.sendmegamail.com

#Computer #Internet

Send large files

Apr

22

Nowadays, files created by digital cameras are so large, you cannot send them by standard email. PSPINC provides service that enables you to send large files. The service is called MegaMail ... http://sendmegamail.com/

You can try it our for free.

#Computer #Internet

Microsoft Office Live is Ending

Apr

21

Microsoft Office Live is ending at the end of this month and all are asked to migrate to Microsoft Office 365. We are working this Saturday to migrate one customer from Microsoft Office Live to our email hosting service. This customer decided they do not need Microsoft Office 365. Unfortunate for Microsoft, this is not the only customer indicated to leave Microsoft.

It is unbelievable for us to shut down the service that has many customers. But then again, Microsoft Office Live or 365 are not Microsoft's main focus. They should keep Microsoft Office Live and slowly migrate them to Microsoft Office 365.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/olsb/Splitter-EN-US.html

#Business #Marketing

New Customer

Apr

20

Laniers Fine Candies just became out hosting customer. We got some candies from them and they are great.

http://laniersfinecandies.com/

#Gourmet

New Email Server Performance

Apr

20

We have not seen any email delay for a week now. We were able to reduce CPU usage by 70% by tuning up software thus making mail processing faster. The graph above shows the CPU usage for 24 hours (4/18 3:36 pm – 4/19 3:33 pm).

Legend: Red line: number of access user
Black line: Database CPU usage
Green line: IMAP/POP Mail Server CPU Usage
Pink line: Machine CPU Usage

You can see the server is running much more stable when it comes to CPU usage. We are still working to make processes even faster.

#Computer #Internet