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[13 Jan 2012 | 0 Comments]

For merchants running AspDotNetStorefront who aren’t regularly running the Monthly Maintenance routines, you might find yourself in a situation similar to one of our clients where the size of the transaction log for their SQL database had grown large enough that their site was shut down because it couldn’t grow any more. In this case, since we couldn’t access the admin section of the site to run the monthly maintenance, I was able to run the following commands in order to clear the transaction log to the point of the last backup AND then shrink the physical size of the SQL database files. [More]

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[28 Nov 2011 | 0 Comments]

Granting Google AdWords professionals access to your Google AdWords account in order to assist you in managing your campaigns is a fairly simple procedure, if you do it right. Protect yourself and learn how to do it at the same time using the instructions in the form below. [More]

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[27 Oct 2011 | 0 Comments]

Google has finally allowed Google Apps customers to take advantage of Google+ . Here are some quick tips on how to get this up and running in your Google Apps account AND get your users signed up! [More]

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[12 Oct 2011 | 0 Comments]

I’m sure you’ve been there before. You (or your customer) have gone in and added all your products and defined which products go with which stores but then decided after the fact that you want to have a manufacturer’s page (or menu) that shows all the manufacturers of products that exist in a give store on your Multi-Store solution. Read on to find the SQL command to make this a painless problem... [More]

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[28 Jun 2011 | 0 Comments]

Has putting YouTube videos on your website embarrassed you by being so bold as to insist on being in front of other elements on your website? This is a common problem seen across the Internet daily. However, just ‘cause main people suffer from this ailment doesn’t mean that you have to. The resolution to this problem doesn’t rely on setting Z-Index or anything fancy, just making some small changes to the original code provided by YouTube to embed the video. [More]

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[16 Mar 2011 | 0 Comments]

I among many others, mourned the loss of Wave. While it had many fantastic features, I think it was exactly this broad feature-set that caused it’s early demise. One of the features in Wave that I thought was a killer app was the ability to easily hold group discussions while collaborating on documents. Well today, Google Docs announced their new Discussion feature that will go a long way towards resolving this issue. [More]

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[14 Mar 2011 | 0 Comments]

This Katamari game is a javascript implementation (interpretation?) of the Japanese video game Katamari Damacy which roughly translates to “clump spirit”. The point of the game, if there is a point, is to roll a sticky ball around and the more objects you pick up , the bigger the ball becomes and the bigger the objects it can pick up. This version will load in your browser and you hold the control key and roll the ball around the screen picking up words and images off of the screen. I suppose the goal is to get the ball big enough that it goes super-nova. To get a better idea of what this is all about, you can watch the following video which is a commercial designed for the launch of this game: Advert for the game that launched this phenomenon… Load up your favorite website (like this one) in Chrome browser and paste the following javascript into the address bar and enjoy! javascript:var h='http://174.129.249.239/js/',i,n,ss=['http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js',h+'Renderables.js',h+'Game.js'];for(i=0;i<ss.length;i++){n=document.createElement("script");n.src=ss[i]+'?'+Date.now();document.head.appendChild(n);} .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }

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[26 Jan 2011 | 4 Comments]

This is a GREAT video that shows you how to use Webmaster Tools to do Search Engine Optimization on your own website. Watching this is probably the best 10 minutes that a website owner can spend [More]

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[18 Nov 2010 | 1 Comments]

Google announced today the timing for what we consider to be a HUGE change for Google Apps customers (that we talked about on October 1st): The consolidation of Google Apps accounts into the overall Google Accounts structure that control non-apps services (like Analytics, AdSense, Alerts, Reader, Earth, FeedBurner, Custom Search Engine, Checkout, Blogger). [More]

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[14 Oct 2010 | 0 Comments]

Ever since the oauth-calypse back in August, I’ve been really missing my this plugin for Windows Live Writer. WLW is, in my mind, the best way to manage and compose your blog posts regardless of the platform you are working on (Wordpress, BlogEngine.Net, SubText, etc) however the Microsoft-built plugin that I relied upon on every post, called Twitter Notify, stopped working abruptly when Twitter dropped support for basic authentication.
It appears that on August 31 Microsoft quietly introduced an update to this plugin which has been downloaded close to 17,000 times that promises to take care of this problem. This will be our official first post using the new plugin so let’s see if this works! [More]