Record Share Combine with Gawker

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Ever wanted to make a stop motion movie in which you were the subject? Well now with Gawker, the time-lapse application that makes movies with your web cam, you can, and with the tagline “Let your computer do the gawking.” it doesn’t leave much to the imaginationĀ  Other benefits of Gawker include the fact that [...]

How To Setup Backup or Secondary MX in CPanel

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

If your mail server goes down, what happens to your emails? In this article, I run through the scenario and talk about the solutions, or the non-solutions, that you might like to consider in terms of safeguarding the loss of any of your clients's emails, as well as the how-to of implementing them.
What Does Happen [...]

Troubleshooting Email Problems in Apple Mail for OSX

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

What to do when Apple Mail seemingly stops working for no apparent reason? In this article we cover a quick array of possible problem areas, from network issues, mailbox corruption and even settings, help you to track down and debug the potential problems with crashing, slowness and connectivity that you might encounter with your Mac [...]

Sending Large or Multiple Files Via Email or Other Means

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I recently received an email with a 33KB attachment that had been sent via pando.com. In the contents of the email it suggested that I go to http://www.pando.com/download and retrieve a piece of software to be able to open the attachment.
I wouldn't say I fell off my seat laughing, but it struck me how absolutely [...]

Quick & Easy Web Form Checks with Live Validation

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Ever wanted to have super spiffy, quick and easy web form checking, web 2.0 style with AJAX? Well now, with Live Validation, you can set up form validation in 3 quick and VERY simple steps. Here is how ...
Where to Begin with Form Validation
For starters you need to have the form created in [...]

Insert HTML Code into iWeb Built Pages

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Update: Apple has announced a simple copy & paste functionality for embed code produced on many web 2.0 web sites, such as flickr & last.fm with iWeb '08, part of the iLife '08 suite of applications for OSX. We are as yet to confirm whether there is any templating functionality for embed code within iWeb [...]

Full-Scale Background Images with CSS

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Having the need for, and recently come across an article by Mark Schenk on the use of scaled images a a background with CSS, I thought that I would add my 2Ā¢ to the equation as i think he is missing out a couple of points that would be super handy for any casual reader [...]

Setting Up SPF Records in CPanel, WHM, and Namecheap

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

If you are getting a lot of SPAM sprayback, bounced emails and the like for your domain, you might like to consider the creation of SPF records to help inform receiving mail servers about what are and what aren't valid mail relays for your domain.

SPF records create a "Sender Policy Framework" in your domain zone [...]

Setting Up Your Outlook Email Client for POP & IMAP for CPanel

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

In this article we will be using Outlook 2003 as an example, but all versions of Outlook operate pretty much the same way, with the same looking screens. In the article we also assume that you have already set up the required email account under the "Mail" section of CPanel. If you don't have an [...]

How-to Secure Erase Files from Your Hard Drive in OSX

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Having recently read the following blog entry "Halloween Special: Secure Erase" about how easy it is to secure erase files in Apple's latest version of the Mac operating System, codenamed Leopard, I thought I would write a quick review of ways to secure erase, files and entire hard drives for those of us using not [...]