{"id":16748,"date":"2019-05-16T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16748"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:02:05","slug":"when-it-rains-it-pours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/when-it-rains-it-pours\/","title":{"rendered":"When It Rains It Pours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30pt;\"><strong>When It Rains It Pours<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When it rains it pours. We&#8217;re dealing with a lot of adversity right now, not the least of which is the fact our InfoAve Premium newsletter is being blocked by Gmail. Well, actually it&#8217;s not our newsletter that&#8217;s being blocked, it&#8217;s the newsletter service we use that&#8217;s causing our InfoAve Premium newsletter to be blocked by Gmail. Our Premium newsletter is the lifeblood of our small business. It lets us keep in touch with you &#8211; our friends and subscribers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We are most likely going to have to change newsletter providers. We&#8217;ve been using the same company for over a decade. But they&#8217;re not getting the job done and we things are not getting any better as less than 50% of our Premium subscribers are getting the newsletter. We&#8217;ll get this fixed but shopping for a provider we can trust takes time. Darcy and I have spent hours on it already. Our goal is having this issue resolved before the end of this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Then there&#8217;s the secure server issue. Our site is not on a secure server &#8211; and it does not need to be. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-truth-about-secure-sites-and-sites-labeled-not-secure\/\"> Read our article about this here<\/a>.<\/span> But most people don&#8217;t understand that a secure server does not mean a safe site. Many sites that distribute malware and software bundles that distribute malware are on secure servers. For example,\u00a0 Softonic, which takes legitimate freeware and bundles it with PUPs, questionable software and malware runs on a secure server. So when you visit Softonic you&#8217;ll see the word &#8220;Secure&#8221; and the famous &#8220;Lock&#8221; icon in your browser&#8217;s address bar. But the word &#8220;secure&#8221; and the lock does not mean that that site is safe. Because a site is running on a secure server does not necessarily mean it is a safe site. But the public perception is that it does and so we&#8217;re reluctantly deciding on the best, least expensive way to switch our site to secure servers &#8211; not because it will make it safer, but because it will help those who don&#8217;t know us as well as you do, feel safer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Trying to find the right newsletter provider takes time. We want to make sure we choose the best service we can afford. And trying to figure out the best way to switch our site over to secure servers without interruption takes a lot of time. Trying to do all this while to continuing to help as many people as we can with their computers is a daunting task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But we&#8217;ve always put our subscribers and friends first.\u00a0 And we&#8217;re not going to change that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">So, we&#8217;re asking for your help &#8211; again.\u00a0 There are many ways you can help us to continue our mission of helping everyone who calls on us for help. Each week we spend hours answering questions via email and only a few of these questions and answers make it into our InfoAve Premium newsletter. We\u2019re happy to help as much as we can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Anything you could do to help us right now would be very much appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>You can help us by sharing us on your Facebook page.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Recommend us to your friends on your Facebook page.\u00a0 Link to our InfoAve website where we have over 4000 computer tips, tricks and more! Or InfoAve website address is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I<strong>nvite your friends to subscribe to our Premium Newsletter. It&#8217;s free<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can invite your friends to sign up for our InfoAve Premium Weekly newsletter. The sign-up page is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a class=\"auto-style5\" href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/join.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/join.htm<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Subscribe to our InfoAve Daily Newsletter (or invite your friends to subscribe).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s free and our InfoAve Newsletter is delivered by Google, so we&#8217;re not having any delivery issues with our InfoAve Daily. The sign-up page for our daily newsletter is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a class=\"auto-style5\" href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/start\/subscribe.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/start\/subscribe.htm<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Cloudeight Direct Computer Care<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;ve kept our price as low as we can on computer repair to make it accessible for everyone Where in the world can you have your Windows computer repaired for $50? That&#8217;s all it costs to buy a Cloudeight Direct Computer Care service &amp; repair key. And you can buy one now and save it. Our keys never expire, they&#8217;re good until you use them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/direct\/2019\/transform\/\">You can read more about Cloudeight Direct Computer Care here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Windows 10 Transformation Service<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Windows 7 users have about 8 months to upgrade to Windows 10 or use Windows 7 after its end-of-life, which means without any support, updates or security patches from Microsoft. We\u2019re offering a special service for Windows 7 users who upgrade to Windows 10 where we\u2019ll make Windows 10 computers look and work a lot more like Windows 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/direct\/2019\/transform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For complete details of our Windows 10 transformation service, see this page.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Cloudeight SeniorPass<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Are you 60 or older? 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Try to find a better deal anywhere!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/direct\/2018\/senior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Get more information about our Cloudeight SeniorPass here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Make a small donation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style8\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can help us by making a small donation. Even the smallest donations help. If you\u2019d like to make a donation to help us keep on helping you,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/donation.htm\">please visit this page.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Use Our Start Page!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style8\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And finally, did you know if you use the search engine on our Cloudeight Start Page, it helps us? Google pays us a tiny amount each time anyone uses the Google search on our start page.\u00a0 Our start page is located at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/start\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and the Google search is right at the top.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>And most of all thanks for everything you have done for us &#8211; and for sticking with us!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style7\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We just wanted you to know what we&#8217;re dealing with right now. 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