Here’s a quick juicy piece of knowledge for you. If your ISP changes for whatever reason (i.e. you move) and suddenly your email stops working, it’s possible your ISP blocks port 25, the standard email SMTP port on most servers. All you have to do to fix it is change your SMTP port to 587, which is another SMTP port activated on many email servers for situations like this. If you’re not sure how to do that, and you run Microsoft Outlook, here’s a quick step-by-step.
Read more →Microsoft is offering a free download of Windows 7 RC. This is a time-limited version that will become unusable in 2010 on March 1st, but until then, you can find out what the newest version of Windows is going to be like. Keep in mind, this is
Read more →I stumbled across Jason Cohen’s blog a few weeks ago and have been reading a bit of it lately. He’s got a great article today about Statistical Significance in AdWords campaigns (or any PPC split test for that matter). A great quote from the article…
Read more →If you’ve run into a message that says “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” while upgrading your blog, it can be a bit worrisome until you realize how easy it is to fix. In this tutorial I show you the simple way to remove this message and restore access to your blog.
Read more →GoDaddy’s offering $0.99 domain name registration with coupon code LOVE99. Not sure how long this deal will last. There’s a $0.20 ICANN fee with each registration. It apparently works for .org TLDs as well. Courtesy of Slickdeals. By the way, if you’ve never been on Slickdeals.net, you
Read more →Adobe Contribute is a pretty interesting piece of software that’s received relatively little attention. It’s a content management system that resides on your desktop and uses tags inside your website’s HTML code to set up editable areas on your site. You can actually edit your website directly from your desktop and commit the changes, all without ever touching a single bit of code.
Read more →It’s been quite a while now since I submitted the new versions of my This Just In! and Get Some! WordPress themes over at the theme repository, and I’m still waiting on approval almost a month later. So I’ve posted the themes here because who knows how
Read more →If you’ve been running a WordPress site for any time at all, and are as clumsy as I am sometimes, you’ve probably deleted a post or two by accident, or maybe WordPress deleted it for you unintentionally. While I love writing here, writing something twice because you deleted the first copy is a major chore – we’ve all had to redo work that was already done and, whatever the reason, it’s frustrating. Here’s how I recovered a post that got deleted almost immediately after I published it.
Read more →News over at Webisee is Microsoft will be releasing Windows 7 Beta for free download to the first 2.5 million people beginning Jan. 9th, PST. Windows 7 is said to have significant improvements over Windows Vista, including faster performance, better device management, and of course, a slick,
Read more →I decided to get rid of the IntenseDebate comment system I found out about and installed a few months ago and blogged about here. It turned out to just be much too much of a hassle for not much of a benefit. The main features that drew
Read more →Weblog Tools Collection has an interesting audio interview with Mark E. of Maximum Security about his newly released Maximum Security WordPress plugin. Apparently, Mark is a 15-year veteran of the computer security business, and he seems to know his stuff. His new plugin looks to be a
Read more →I know WordPress 2.7 has been out for a bit now and I’ve yet to release the newest versions of my Get Some! and This Just In! WordPress themes. The themes are finished and have been submitted for approval to the WordPress theme repository. Unfortunately, the approval
Read more →Phew! I’ve been dealing with server issues for the past 48 hours as I’ve been having some serious problems with my hosting provider. This site is hosted on a shared server over at Lunarpages; I’ve never had any issues at all up to this point, but about
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This Just In! and Get Some! Comments Problem
To everyone who recently downloaded either This Just In! or Get Some! themes from the WordPress theme repository and is having any kind of comment problems…the mistake was mine in uploading the wrong version of those two themes to the theme repository – so many files to
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