Came across a great little software program that you can install on your windows 7 pc. It’s called “FingerPrint” by http://www.collobos.com/. It works great! I installed in on my windows 7 64 bit machine. Cost $10.00. (trust me, I spent a heck of a lot more on dysfunctional apps). As soon as the software was installed, when I go to my print feature on my iPad, I know see every printer on my network. I can even open up images on my pc for local editing. Talk about VERY cool! And to top that off, now my iPhone 3GS (running iOS 5.01) now can print also. Outstanding! So if you are looking for something like this, go on over to http://www.collobos.com/. Download the free version first to see if it works for you. I tested in 5 minutes and then purchased the software license.

The Dansie Shopping Cart works just fine with wordpress. You can use the html tab to insert your click to purchase buttons on your post. Upload your photo, scale a thumbnail and insert your click to purchase code. Pretty easy to do! I have not tried using more advanced forms. Below is a sample test to see if it will work. If you check out you won’t get a refund. =)

Test Product
Price: $1.00

 
A more advanced form:
Mens Tie
Price: $40.00
Size:

Have you ever thought your website was down? Maybe your hosting provider was taking a nap when it happened? Scary huh? Maybe, just maybe, the server is not down. You can find out if it’s the server or YOU that has the problem. I know, the first thought is always.. “but but, I can see all these other websites on the internet without problems?”. Here is how you can determine if the problem is on your end or the hosting providers end.

First, re-confirm you cannot access your website: www.yourdomain.com

Now, go here: http://www.pagewash.com/

Retype your website url there. Does it load? yes or no? If it loads, the server is NOT down.  If it doesn’t load, pick up the phone and call.

What to do if it does load? If you are hosting your website with www.stormer.com, have you been trying to guess your password for some login? Maybe you setup a new email account or you are attempting to login to cpanel and couldn’t remember your password? After so many attempts, the server will block you in the firewall. If that is the case, the server will appear down to you. You can not fix it.

Go here: http://www.whatismyip.com/

Get your IP address from that website and call it in or submit a secure support ticket. The problem can be resolved fairly quickly for you. And we can even help you get your password problem fixed. The firewall is necessary because multiple dictionary attacks happen each day. The “bad folks” are trying to break in all the time, doing random user/password attempts. We block them so they go away. (they see what you are seeing, NOTHING).

If you are not blocked in the firewall and you still cannot see your website, is your domain name expired? (this happens more than you know) If the domain name is good then there is a high probability that there is a connection problem between the location of your isp and the location of the server. It is not a problem with you OR the server. But it IS a problem for you!

If you are on a windows machine, you can run a tracert to try and determine where the problem lay…

Click start button, in the run field type: cmd
This will open up a little “dos” window. Now type: tracert www.yourdomain.com

It will take a bit, but you will then see all the “hops” between your isp and the location of the server at the datacenter. No one has a direct connection to the server except the guy with the keyboard at the datacenter. All those “hops” are different routers on the internet. If a router between the location of your isp and the location of the server goes bad, you will not be able to get to your website. Contact your ISP and ask them to fix.

Here are two examples of a good and bad tracert:
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Notice where I highlighted yellow? That usually indicates there may be a problem, but nothing to be worried about. That one router is routing you at about the rate of a 56k modem. (slow). But once it clears that router.. fast again.

If you start seeing a bunch of “splats” or “*” symbols.. “red circle” that/those router(s) is/are timing out! The part where it times out is the router that is bad or having some serious issues. Contact your ISP and give them this information.

Can you see your website now? =)

James

I recently discovered a very nice software program that integrates Google Voice with Outlook 2010.  Calling a contact is as easy as right clicking on the contact and clicking “call”.   You can listen to your Google Voice messages, even use the texting feature from within Outlook.  The software is called Clamr!

Here is their website:
http://www.clamr.com/

I had some issues on my desktop getting it installed, but it worked great on my laptop.  The cost is agreeable, but is on subscription at 30.00/year/seat.   The requirements are Outlook 2010 and a Google Voice account.  Works with Exchange or regular pop/imap.   Other nice features are broadcast “texting” to your contacts, file transfers, scheduled conference calls.  I recommend it for increased productivity.

I downloaded this software called Oracle VM VirtualBox.  You can get it here: http://www.virtualbox.org.   It’s super easy to use!  I installed it on a 32 bit version of Win7 Ultimate.  Although I think the preferred system would be 64bit win7.  (that way you can take advantage of allocating more memory).   I setup a partition first then put my ubuntu disk in my drive when prompted and it installed the OS into the partition.  This is not a “bootable” type of setup.  You can launch it on command!   The partition is actually just a separate file in your documents folder.  Why would anyone want to use software like this?  Well, if you have old software that can’t run on a newer system, you can run it inside this partition on the OS that will run it!  Or if you just geeky and want to play around with other operating systems without breaking your current one, give this painless software a go.

Some screen shots…