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What do you mean I can’t send more than 500 emails an hour?

Excerpt: This question was posed to me when I recently moved a client's website to another hosting plan.  Yes, according to Hostgator, when signed up with their shared hosting plan, you are limited to 500 emails an hour for the whole website.  Seems like a nice ceiling, but when you have employees

Deactivate Wordpress Plugins through PhpMyAdmin

Excerpt: Recently I've updated my Wordpress install through Fantastico and blew up the site. Apparently the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin contains variables that are being used in the new Wordpress 2.3.3 upgrade. I brought up the website to see nothing but a php error...even when trying to access the admin pa

How to watch satellite TV on your PC

Excerpt: Satellite TV is fast replacing the typical home television setup.  However with the required receiver equipment, people are wonder how to take advantage of this digital satellite technology.  And I'm sure you are wondering how to watch satellite TV on your PC.  It only makes sense t

MS Live Writer Running on XP Pro 64bit

Excerpt: If you are like me, you are one super-duper Windows software engineer running a super-duper powerful duo-core PC running Windows XP Pro 64bit.  If you are like me, you love to post to your blogs with Windows Live Writer. If you are like me you are steaming mad that Microsoft has yet to rel

SEO Gurus Lie - META tags do count!

Excerpt: I've been preaching for about 5 years that META tags are worthless when it comes to improving your search engine visibility.  I recently had to eat my words. I played a roll in getting the MCG Jazz up and running by utilizing a custom template and Joomla backend.  Those of you who have use

How to clean up Hillary’s image

Excerpt: Drudge Report recently posted a horrible photo of Hillary. I'm not a fan of her, but heck, everybody deserves a good run through Photoshop. I've created quick tutorial of how to clean up even Hillary's "wrinkled" image.

Helping Relatives Out With Their Website Initiatives

Excerpt: Recently my cousin Matt had a few questions for me about starting up a Website.  I'll share with you his question and my follow-up answers.  I'm sure many of you on the web run into these same questions from your relatives as well: Hey cuz, i'm workin on a web site and was wondering if yo

Spying on Chat Programs

Excerpt: I'm sure you've seen the spy programs out there, you know, the ones that say Spy on Your Wife, Spy on You Children.  Spy on anything used on your computer. Well you don't have to actually buy those things if you only want to see what is going on with chat sessions. Now I don't think it is a go

Adding an eBay RSS Feed to Your Wordpress Blog

Excerpt: Recently I've been trying to figure out a way to aggregate eBay auctions for use in one of my real estate websites.  I wanted to do this for two reasons, one being to generate fresh content and the other for trying to inject my Commission Junction affiliate code into the listings.  The so

flash player for windows forms

Excerpt: I know this has nothing to do with web, well it sorta does...being that Flash is involved. Being a web guy, I'm a total expert when adding flash movies to webpages. Heck, all you have to do is drag and drop in Dreamweaver and you are set. But recently I've given the task of adding some cool splas