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Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:09 +0000

For starters you are likely trying to compete in a highly competitive space, so it will be hard to come top. Only 1 website can come in #1 position and no doubt the current holders have been at it a long time. Just by doing a little SEO doesn’t guarantee a top spot. Also how long ago did you update the site, and have you done all the other things required? It’s not enough to just plonk the site online. Given the returns from your work, it’s probably worth spending serious money and employing an SEO professional. Best, Vincent =

Comment on Ambrosia Software’s Easy Envelopes Dashboard Widget for Mac OSX by Bob

Bob — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:12:22 +0000

I downloaded Ambrosia’s easy envelopes and none of the setting
features, e.g. envelope size, are available.
I’m using Snow Leopard. What is wrong?
Also, every time I click on the desk top, easy envelopes disappears.
Any help appreciated.
Bob
namdeerf@aceweb.com

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:09:26 +0000

I have implemented changes to my iweb site by using iweb seo tool, but with no luck with google. If I type in “personal injury lawyer” or anything specific “Houston Car Accident Lawyer” my website is nowhere to be found. Even if I type “Texas Injury Lawyer” I can’t be found, unless you type in “My Texas Injury Lawyer.”

I’m starting to think the way iWeb creates its code somehow inhibits the search engines readability for that website.

Any suggestions will be appreciated!

Comment on Setting Up SPF Records in CPanel, WHM, and Namecheap by Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:55:33 +0000

Here’s a few other places…

Microsoft’s
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/

Unlock The Inbox (Supports IPV6)
http://www.unlocktheinbox.com/spfwizard.aspx

Cloudfloor
http://www.mtgsy.net/dns/spfwizard.php

Best places to validate them
http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html

Or Send emails to these addresses and you’ll get a response on whether it’s set up right or not.

mailtest@unlocktheinbox.com
check-auth@verifier.port25.com

Comment on Port Forwarding in OSX with SSH Tunnel Manager by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:18:06 +0000

Does a search on file content, or using ‘locate’ from the command line turn up anything? cant imagine they are hiding it in a ‘.whatever’ file.

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:17:01 +0000

Brad – Thanks for the hoodwink =) … Personally i have been pushing clients from iWeb to WordPress. Not exactly like for like, and a costly initial hit to get up and running in time, but after that they can do as they wish, and Google LOVES wordpress =)

Comment on Making Apple’s iWeb More “Search Engine Friendly” by Brad

Brad — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:12:50 +0000

Thanks for your information. I haven’t found anything newer on the subject that gives any better info than you do. I kinda hoped that with I-Life 11 they might have added some ability to do the basic SEO stuff, but they didn’t. Modifying i-Web pages manually or with add-on tools limits your ability to later make changes using just i-Web. That defeats the purpose of using it in the first place. (i.e. my clients want to be able to make minor content changes themselves). I’ve been told at least a dozen times by Apple Support when I want to do some ordinary task, “oh, you need to install this other program/add-on/3rd party tool …” The only thing that sucks worse than Apple software is PC software! (sigh)

Thanks for your great info.

Comment on Port Forwarding in OSX with SSH Tunnel Manager by emil

emil — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:02:47 +0000

One quick question regarding the tunnel manager app:

Does anyone know where tunnel manager stores it’s configuration? I’d like to share my current configuration with a colleague without reentering my entire configuration. So it would be need simply passing over the configuration file.

Many thanks for a reply

Comment on Printing Labels, Mailing List & Envelopes in Mac OSX with Address Book by Joni

Joni — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:38:01 +0000

Oops! Just read your above comments concerning my question. I will try that, thanks.

Comment on Printing Labels, Mailing List & Envelopes in Mac OSX with Address Book by Joni

Joni — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:35:10 +0000

I’ve printed out all my envelopes for Christmas cards and set up my Christmas card group in my address book but now if I want to send and email to a friend from my All Contact list from my IPod it addresses the email with the formal address Mr. & Mrs…instead of just the person’s name. Is there any way of my keeping my contacts in this group with just there first and last names? Please help. Thanks

Comment on Printing Labels, Mailing List & Envelopes in Mac OSX with Address Book by Jay

Jay — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:05:25 +0000

Many of my contacts have multiple addresses. When I print labels for a group, it creates a label for each address. Is there a way to specify, in this case, only the home address to print?

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Darren McKee

Darren McKee — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:54:10 +0000

I’m getting the perpetual loop of restart requests on my G4 tower. The rotating animation goes for a while, then I get the restart note. If I start from the CD, it tries to install the older system on the CD, and since the existing system is newer, I hit the “Archive Previous…” and continue with the install. At some point during the install process it stops and shows a few paragraphs of information that is meaningless to me (black with white lettering over the desktop).

I’ve verified the disk, and is says there is nothing to repair. I don’t know what to do next.

Comment on How To Mail Merge Apple Address Book with Microsoft Word by Monica M

Monica M — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:51:32 +0000

Ok, in trying one last time, this is actually what Word is popping up and telling me. “WORD COULD NOT FINISH MERGING THESE DOCUMENTS OR INSERTING THIS DATABASE” Thanks for any advise!

Comment on How To Mail Merge Apple Address Book with Microsoft Word by Monica M

Monica M — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:34:20 +0000

I got all the way through the tutorial and merged both into a doc and also straight to printer. When I previewed it before clicking print, there was nothing there – absolutely nothing. When I printed it, again, there was nothing at all there. I can see it on the ‘envelope’ when I’m dropping fields in and when I ‘preview’ using the ABC button but something must be going wrong when I merge them. Any ideas?

Comment on Printing Labels, Mailing List & Envelopes in Mac OSX with Address Book by Christmas cards and Apple Address Book « Edessa

Christmas cards and Apple Address Book « Edessa — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:26:05 +0000

[...] doing at work, and having found some address labels to print on, I started looking into ways of getting the addresses printed directly from the Address Book. I keep my contacts in there and have a list of people who should be sent Christmas cards by post. [...]

Comment on Printing Labels, Mailing List & Envelopes in Mac OSX with Address Book by Liz

Liz — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:38:43 +0000

How do I print a page of Avery 5260 labels with just one address on all labels?

Comment on Printing Labels, Mailing List & Envelopes in Mac OSX with Address Book by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:01:38 +0000

Thanks Barb =)

Comment on Printing Labels, Mailing List & Envelopes in Mac OSX with Address Book by Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:47:34 +0000

Like many of you, I use Apple’s Address Book for doing my Christmas lists. Here’s two things I do that I think work really well:

1. Create a Smart Group that consists of all contacts with “Christmas” in the notes field. It’s easy to add and remove this to the notes field throughout the year. I don’t have to think to drag them in/out of a regular Group.

2. I use the Nickname field to enter how I want the Christmas card addressed. So if I have a friend named Mary Smith. Her husband is under the spouse field as “John.” But under Nickname I can choose to have “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” or “The Smith Family” or whatever seems right for them. I tend to be more formal with my elders but more casual for my peers. You do have to enter a nickname for each of your contacts — but you only have to do it once and then it appears exactly like you want it to print.

To add the Nickname field to your Address Book contacts, go to Card > Add Field and select it. It will appear directly underneath their name when you are in the edit mode for the card. When you are out of edit mode, it will appear like the nickname has quotes around it; those won’t show when you use it.

To use the nickname field in an Apple Pages Mail Merge document, go to Insert > Merge Field > Related Name > Nick Name (yes somehow it became two words). Being able to use the Nick Name field makes it totally worth it to use Pages to print my Christmas envelopes. I can change the font/color too. You also get a completely editable document to which you can make any last minute changes (but if your Address Book is correct you shouldn’t have to make any changes to the document).

Good luck!

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:23:57 +0000

Do you have a CD to boot from? Is it in a perpetual loop of restarts? Do you ever see a rotating loader animation?

Comment on Booting Your Apple Mac From CD, DVD, iPod or External Device by Paul

Paul — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:04:31 +0000

I was given an Apple Imac USB 2.0 and it turns on goes to the gray screen and then restarts. I have tried and reste the power management system and it still does the same thing. Any ideas on what to do???