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Naddour Iron Website Launched

Our customer Naddour Iron, in conjunction with our partners Over The Top Marketing, have launched their new site at http://www.naddouriron.com/. This site incorporates a number of neat features a great design and SEO by Over The Top in addition to some neat functionality that we’ve provided. This site, written in PHP, utilizes our form to Google …

Backup Your Google Apps Data

One of the concerns we hear from people is "How do we backup our data when it lives in the cloud?" Well, if you are using Google Apps, or even just plain old Google Docs, the option is there to do this. The first thing you’ll need to do is to select all of your …

Create QR Code On the Fly

Ever seen those cool 2d Bar Codes (also called QR codes) and wondered how you could easily and quickly create these to point mobile phone users to a URL quickly? Well, Google Charts API comes to the rescue. By appending the URL into call to the API, you can change at text URL like https://exhibita.com/blog …

How NOT to Offers Support Videos

I was signing up for a new YouTube account to support a forthcoming video/blog project (we’ll have announcements about it soon) when I stumbled on the following page in Google’s YouTube support pages: I was interested in learning more about desired video formats and, in particular HD video formats. So, I clicked on the video …

Calculating Value of Google Apps In Your Business

Did you know that Google provides a TCO calculator to determine how much Google Apps can save your business over your current messaging solution? While it does a head to head comparison between Google Apps Premier Edition vs. Microsoft Exchange server, the concept and pricing should be similar for Notes or other messaging systems. With …

Moving From One Google Apps Account To Another

I’ve had a number of customers who’ve moved from one Google Apps account to another recently and thought I’d write down the steps on how to do this for use by others in the same situation. This seems to happen regularly with startups who change their business model (along with their domain name) mid-stream. Some …

Google Sites API Released

The Data Liberation Front strikes again! Google announced Friday that their is now a Google Data API for Google Sites. With this API, site administrators can now programatically: Retrieve, create, modify, move, and delete pages, comments, attachments and other content. Review the revision history across the Site. Monitor all, add, modify and delete activity for …

Finding BlogEngine.Net Themes

When I’m looking for a new theme (outside of the ones available from the http://dotnetblogengine.net site), these are the places I go look: http://www.blogenginetheme.com/ http://www.themes4blogs.com/category/BlogEngine-Theme.aspx – ed.: This site appears to be unavailable http://www.onesoft.dk/category/-BlogEngine-Themes.aspx http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/?tag=/blogengine.net http://rtur.net/blog/?tag=/themes Of course if one wants to make your own, the best source is http://www.nyveldt.com/blog/post/BlogEngineNET-Creating-Themes-Webcast.aspx   Where do YOU find …

Launching Your eCommerce Store

So you’ve gotten the keys to your eCommerce storefront from your designers and developers, but what comes next? Well, this question will depend largely upon how much work was done by the aforementioned boffins and artists but we’ll take a stab at outlining the required steps before you go live. Just keep in mind that …