What is Google Apps?
Google Apps is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps teams communicate, collaborate and get things done from anywhere and on any device.
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Make Sure WordPress Has Enough Memory
I’ve just wrapped up spending an inordinate amount of time trying to debug a problem with some client sites that were hosted on WestHost. These sites are cookie cutters in that the theme and the plugins are the same as was running on other hosting companies (BlueHost, HostMonster, HostGator, iPage, etc) but on this new (to me) hosting company, whenever I’d go into the Pages administration of the WordPress dashboard, it would throw a 500 server error.
Turning on debug in wp-config.php would show errors talking about deprecated functions but nothing that SHOULD throw the 500 server we were experiencing. What was odd was that one of the affected plugins was WordPress SEO from Yoast; the irony being that the only reason I went to WestHost was becuase of the recommendation by Joost de Valk himself (owner/developer at Yoast). All the affected plugins were:
Allowing WWW and Domain Only Access to WordPress Site
Say you have a client who’s come to you to build them a new website; great, congratulations. You do some research and find out that the links on their old site all pointed at the raw domain (no www preceeding it). You’ve also decided that based on their needs, the new site should be set up on the WordPress platform.
Easy peasy, right? Well not so fast there… Let’s say you built the new site, took it live and everyone on the Internet can see the new site BUT your client. More accurately, your client can’t see the site when they are at work but can from any other location. Hmmm…
Google Account without a Gmail Account
*UPDATE*: 9/25/2019 to reflect changes in Google’s signup process
Note that the below directions still work but you also now get here easily from a Sign In link on any Google page. Just click on “Sign In” link and on the dialog box, click “Create account”
This will take you to the screens mentioned below:
*UPDATED*: 4/29/2013 to reflect changes in Google’s signup process
Want to join Google+? Have been invited to to join a Google Hangout or edit a Google doc or spreadsheet? What do you do if you don’t already have a Google Account to access these services? If you are one of the lucky few who use an email account that is serviced by Google Apps, then you are good to go as most Google services now support Google Apps accounts. But what do you do if your email address is @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com? Well never fear, we can show you how to get a Google Account without creating a Gmail account (address).
By goint to https://accounts.google.com/newaccount (as shown below) you’ll be able to not only sign up for a new Google Account, but they make it easier than ever to do so using your existing email address.
Google I/O Live 2012
Can’t be there myself, so figured I’d post this up for you and for me to catch up on what’s new at Google I/O. Click through to the full article to view the keynote tomorrow morning…
Can’t be there myself, so figured I’d post this up for you and for me to catch up on what’s new at Google I/O. Click through to the full article to view the keynote tomorrow morning…
ASPDNSF v9.3 Released, What’s In It For You?
Yes, you heard that right. The much talked about v9.3 of AspDotNetStorefront has been released today. However, is it right for you?
In a word, Yes! This release incorporates not only a slew of code adjustments (aka bug fixes) that will benefit existing site owners but also two big new features as well as a slew of new mini-features/configuration options.
Easy Export to Excel with C#
Using a class provided by Chris on stackoverlow, I finally found a quick and dirty way to download data to a CSV file locally.
Printer Not Found In Quickbooks Point Of Sale Shipping Manager
Have you run into this problem? In Quickbooks Point of Sale v10 (or in various versions of Quickbook proper it appears) you might change over to the Shipping Manager and when you try and print you get the following error:
Printer Not found: ::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}\HP Laser
This appears to happen under Windows and may happen under Vista as well. The printers are properly configured in QBPOS (or in QB) but for some reason the Shipping Manager isn’t properly enumerating the name of the printer from QBPOS (or QB) configuration.
USPS Rate and Rate V2 APIs to Expire Soon
If you are running an ecommerce store that relies on real-time rate lookups from the U.S. Postal Service then hopefully you are already aware of this looming deadline (March 31, 2012) and have made arrangements to prevent this from crippling your business.
If you are running AspDotNetStorefront (our favorite ecommerce package) AND you rely on USPS as one of your Real Time Shipping lookups, you will need to know that you need to be running v8.0.1.4 or v9.1.1.0 of this fabulous package in order to be safe from this problem.
You’ll be able to confirm the version of your website by looking the left column of the admin control panel: Read more
Who Knew Network Solutions Had A Sense of Humor
Or perhaps it was just a rogue programmer? Either way, this was my laugh to start a crappy Monday off on a better foot:
