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With WordPress’s custom page templates, you can now get iframes to work in the body of your pages.

After searching the internet far and wide for an iframe solution for WordPress, I mostly found uppity comments about how it was not secure, and you just should not use them.

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After much searching across the webosphere, I decided very few people have shared how to integrate sIFR with dropdown menus.

I found one example, but his solution did not work for me.

Taking his cue, however, I did implement SuperFish as a starting point.

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Using MultiFirefox, you can use Minefield, the new beta version of Firefox, at the same time as Firefox 2 or 3.

You need to rename Firefox to something like Firefox Beta or Firefox Minefield to get MultiFirefox to recognize Minefield as a version of Firefox.

After renaming it and restarting multifirefox, you will be able to load Minefield and any other version of Firefox compatible with multifirefox.

Spam can cause problems with exim when it is both incoming and outgoing. Recently, we started getting excessive resource usage notices for two different customers. At first, it looked like their mail accounts were being used to spam the server.

After further analysis, we realized it was actually that the domains were being bombarded with spam to their accounts. Exim was raising the server load dramatically, because neither account had the default address set to :fail: no such address here. Continue Reading »

Process Resource Monitor

When running a shared server environment, you must be extremely aware of activity which can take down your server. One rogue hosting account can ruin things for everyone. Continue Reading »

If you haven’t explored Google Apps for Your Domain or just plain old GMail, now is the time.

GMail and Google Apps for Your Domain capacity is now 6 GB. That’s per user. Continue Reading »

I can’t really remember the time before tabbed browsing and Firefox’s session restore feature. On average, I probably have 5-7 tabs open at a time, and I often close Firefox with that many tabs open. It has become part of my workflow.
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Possibly thousands of bloggers were thrown into a panic by being locked out of their own blogs the last couple of days. The popular “Bad Behavior” plug-in started banning nearly all IP’s and in many cases locking individual users out of their own blogs.

A friend could not even access his wp-admin page, because of the glitch in the plug-in!

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How White Papers Can Turbo-Boost Your Lead-Generation Campaign

If you need to generate leads for business to business sales, you should seriously consider white papers.

One of our search engine marketing clients has built a tremendous business off of leads generated from white papers. While we explore demos, free trials, webinars, and anything else we can think of, white papers are the tried and true answer to lead generation.

To put it in technical terms, when we A/B test, white papers come out on top.

For the most part, I love Google Apps for Your Domain. Lately, I’ve had some issues which for me are pretty serious.

Most importantly, I am continually getting no love when I try to send email via Apple Mail. What happens at first, is that it looks like it is trying to send then several minutes later I’ll get an error message saying it couldn’t be sent and asking if I want to try another outgoing server.

Usually after this message, if I try again, the email will just send right away using the exact same settings. A friend of mine has reported the same issues with his Google Apps for Your Domain accounts.

And this problem does not seem to be limited to Google Apps. My GMail accounts are also suffering the same fate.

If you are having this problem, a temporary solution allowing you to send more quickly is to close Apple Mail and reopen it. Upon reopen, it always seems to send right away. Otherwise, you have to wait several minutes to get the error message before you can send again.

Another issue I’ve had is that my redirect for my webmail does not always work. All of my other subdomains pointing elsewhere work fine, but the Google Apps configuration has been frequently failing on me. If both of these issues persist, I may, sadly, have to leave Google Apps for Your Domain.